Even if the hero pushes so far back he’s riding on the cantle, how is the heroine fitting in front of him without the swell (pommel) and the saddle horn bruising her beyond belief in terrible places? Some stories have the heroine sitting on the hero’s thighs. How exactly is our heroine fitting in front of the guy? Then look at the photo of the empty saddle. Except take another look at the 1888 cowboy.
Her backside tight against his frontside. Romances so often have the hero taking the heroine up on a horse in front of him and the two of them riding that way that I’ve stopped slamming the Kindle shut and zapping books over it. If the second incident hadn’t come right on the heels of the first, I would have ignored it. And what about the horse? How many live and undrugged horses do you think would put up with our romantic couple as opposed to dumping them on the ground or running off a cliff with them? I never dealt with the kind of docile, broad-backed beast used by circus performers for bareback performances, but that seems about the only practical possibility, and the whole idea still strikes me as borderline horse abuse and stupid beyond belief, not romantic. How about an English saddle? Less painful maybe but not more practical. Fun, pleasurable or romantic? Draw your own conclusions. Would it be physically possible? Probably. Think about a full grown woman on that horse with him and sexual gymnastics. Look at the photo here of a working cowboy taken in 1888. Since I’m probably already considered the chief curmudgeon of Kindle Boards, I made myself keep quiet, but thankfully someone else finally posted how unlikely and uncomfortable such a thing would be, so I could second the sentiment without sounding too cranky. Someone mentioned there a romance that included sex on horseback, and there was a lot of oohing and aahing and readers posting how they were hurrying to get the book.
The first occurred in a long-running thread about historical romance in the Book Corner of Kindle Boards. This post was going to be about research for my next romance, but two recent incidents derailed me.
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