Theory: Contrary to a literal reading, the harem fantasy is not about sex, but is instead a male fantasy of having more than one person you're allowed to be emotionally intimate with without having to give up a performance of masculinity that denies the need for that.
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Addendum: The ones which are a personal sexual fantasy or part of a work of erotica are obviously in large part about the sex, yes.
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Apparently not everyone is familiar with the term "harem fantasy" and are assuming I'm talking about something closer to a historical harem (which were Bad). "harem fantasy" is a trope name and generally refers to lots of women voluntarily interested in the protagonist.
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The thing I don't get about some books involving harems (and I mean harems, not love dodecahedrons Ranma-style) is that the story is always focused on the next woman/man and the previous ones get forgotten. If you're going to forget about the rest, what's the point of the harem?
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I haven't particularly picked up on this, but I expect think the answer is basically that people don't know how to write non-couple-centred romance because there are a lot of cultural scripts for how to write that and not many for how to write multi-way romance.
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