romantopia
noun/ˌɹəʊ.mənˈtəʊ.pi.ə/UK/ˌɹoʊ.mənˈtoʊ.pi.ə/US
Etymology
Blend of romance + utopia; originally coined by evolutionary psychologists Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons in their book Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution, and Female Sexuality (2001; →ISBN) to describe the setting in romance novels.
Definitions
A fantasy world which serves as an ideal setting for romance as typically imagined by…
A fantasy world which serves as an ideal setting for romance as typically imagined by women.
- But why, one might wonder, is there no commercial erotic genre that combines the ingredients of pornotopia and romantopia, thereby doubling the potential audience and the potential profit?
- In opposition to romantopia and intimatopia and their respective romance and intimacy foci, paratopia’s interest in the fantastic is more radical.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for romantopia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA