Romance novel meta

This is probably the most explicit piece of writing ever to appear in my lj. And it's meta. On het.

So, I've read an awful lot of romance novels in the past 2/3 months, because the ebook selection at the Brooklyn Public Library is about 65% Harlequin novels (someone seriously needs to hook the selection policy people up with Baen, so they can add a little classic "space marines with big ass guns" male fantasy wishfulfillment to the cornucopia of "The Italian Billionaire's Secret Virgin Mistress's Christmas Baby" titles). And at this point, I've read at least ten recently published historical or paranormal romance novels that have featured the following scenario:

( On the lack of reciprocity in certain romance novel sex scenes )