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Can reading romance novels help men struggling to talk about intimacy?

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Can reading romance novels help men struggling with emotional and physical intimacy talk about sex and pleasure in a meaningful way?

We revisit host Peter O’Dowd’s conversation with author Lyssa Kay Adams, the author of the “Bromance Book Club” series about a group of men who secretly read romance to save their relationships, and Jason Rogers, a former Olympic fencer who started his own real bromance book club.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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