Harem in novels

  • #1
There has been something that has been frequently occurring lately during my time reading:

I thoroughly enjoy a novel and get immersed into the world. I enjoying the plot, the characters, the interactions, the action, and the pace. But then, there would be one girl that starts following the protagonist. The one becomes two, two becomes three, and three becomes most of the girls that the protagonist meets. These girls all start off with normal interactions, but will all soon begin pursuing the protagonist. The novel falls straight into a harem based one where a lot of focus has been shifted on the "harem members".

Though I myself do not thoroughly enjoy a harem, I know others do. I have become curious in why this is so. Why do many action and fantasy novels with male leads become harem novels? Why do people enjoy the harem novels?

I hope that I could also start enjoying them by hearing about why others do. This way, I can stop having to put down many enjoyable novels because of the 'Harem' tag. 
 
  • #2
When I read a novel I'm always looking for romance, so harem isn't that enjoyable for me.
  They sometimes have fun jokes, so I don't hate them, but it's not my favorite genre. I wonder why it became so popular too...
  In the end, it's all about preferences, I think. After all, I'm really into "Otome Game" and "Reincarnate Noble Lady" or "Villainess" kind of stories but some people think of them as really cliché and boring. 
 
  • #3
I agree that women also don't need to be monogamous. As for X and Y chromosome, you should read more actual scientific books rather than reading articles or books or research sponsored by some political or religious groups.

Of course if we finally decide to stop reproducing through direct impregnation and go through with manual mixing and matching of chromosomes by taking sperms and eggs from suitable subjects and then producing newborn in labs, then we can keep the number of male and female equal.

I believe that around 2100 we won't have the current marriage and partnering ideology. People will be more free and broad minded when it comes to sexuality and choosing who to spend time with, for how long to be engaged in relationship or how many people they can be in relationship with etc. what a pity I won't live until then.... 
 
  • #4
I'll put it onto my 'To try' list then  
 
  • #5
Women also don't need to be monogamous btw. I also don't agree with the x and y chromosome argument you made. 
 
  • #7
I did not assume anything about you, rather I suggested you read some actual scientific books rather than majority of the current crop of so called scientific release which are motivated by either political bias or religious bias. But you have already said more than enough about yourself, now I will assume you are one of those who think you know better than actual scientists because actual scientists and their fact based research don't go along with your political or religious views. 
 
  • #8
It would be interesting if you put a poll

Personally I'm fine if it's within a limit ( single digits), accidental, or a lot of build up with infights of the hens.


if its straight up cock beacon then nana 
 
  • #9
Um....you assume a lot about me and too little at the same time.  I was a scientist for a bit, in microbiology/genetics to be precise.  Didn't finish my degree, but I'm up with the science.  And I didn't finish my degree as an act of conscientious change, not because I wasn't good at it or my grades were bad.  Take that and smoke it in your pipe.  
 
  • #10
Depends on the setting, if you have a world that its based on how strong you are, when mc is really strong girls falling for left and right its obvious something that would happen

I enjoy harems much more than normal romances, to me both a single girl or a harem have most of the works failing extremely hard to deliver something decent and to me both are the same while being different, i have my limits i dont want mc to having every girl as his wife, they can be concubines or something but i really like only if a few them that are the true love interest and actually explored with some sort of relationship

I also extremely dislike harems that doesnt have mc getting into a polygamy, its not necessary even having the tag it always scream to me the author wants to bring audience by having this kind of work not to mention mcs never being able to make moves on the girls but the girls have to be the ones chasing the whole work after the dude(mostly looking to you JP novels)

that said if the author knows how to work with interactions and characters he can make it work, it needs the author to put some effort into it and not just throwing characters into the history and doing nothing with them 
 
  • #11
Oh you know how to differentiate them.

I don't pay enough attention to. 
 
  • #12
Simply put, men are not supposed to be monogamous. It is one of the artificial restrictions we humans put on ourselves. Think about it scientifically, only men have Y chromosome that can initiate birth of another male child. there 3 X and only one Y. meaning there would naturally be more and more women than men. what would happen to the extra women in case they are heterosexual?

I consider this restriction to be on the same level as not doing human experiments to find cure for HIV, AIDS, cancer and many other disease, as well as hormone and stem cell research. This kind of nonsense are holding back human race. 
 
  • #13
Also I just found out that soy product's consumption leads to hormonal imbalance aka soyboy, no wonder Japanese male mc.are mostly beta due to high soy diet that contains
Oestrogen. 
 
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