I read for many years M/F books.
For about 18 months or so I started reading M/M, and there are the ONLY books I read.
I don't even purchase a M/M book, if the author "add" some girly bits into the story, for me that is a huge NO, No. I don't want to see any girly bits in my M/M books at all :)

Veronica / V wrote: "I read for many years M/F books.
For about 18 months or so I started reading M/M, and there are the ONLY books I read.
I don't even purchase a M/M book, if the author "add" some girly bits into the..."

I'm the same. I don't like the cross over with girlie bits. I have read some MFM before getting into the MM genre, but most of it was the boys touch the girl but don't touch each other.

Mind you, I did love
and there were occasional girlie bits in that.

Virginia wrote: "I do read M/F. Not as much as M/M, however. So much of M/F is the same over and over again with the woman having to act a certain way and not have the freedom I see in M/M. The M/F I tend to read i..."

That's one of the things that frustrated me too. The female sterotype. Even if she was a free and playful kick ass biatch there were rules for her that the men didn't have to live by.

I'll have to go away and think if I made my MF girls live by those same rules that annoyed me in other books. I probably did without even realising. I know I've fallen into a few cliches in MM here and there that have made me cringe when beta's have pointed them out.

I read MF for years in all genre, historical, paranormal, urban, etc. A little more than a year ago I read my first MM and was hooked. Recently I tried reading an MF book that I had here, and I actually found the love scenes boring and found that I had very little patience for the F part of the romance. I guess its MM or nothing for me :)

Um, don't know if I'm the odd one out here.....

I read 'Romance' in whatever guises. I've gone through the gamut of Mills & Boon, historical bodice-rippers, fantasy and sci-fi, paranormal, and ultimately to MM (and BDSM). As long as there's a romantic relationship and a HEA or HFN, then I'm happy.

I'm currently reading (at the same time to my amazement) a contemporary M/m BDSM; a contemporary M/f BDSM; and a paranormal M/F - and thoroughly enjoying all of them! I'm obviously NOT selective enough :) and I don't mind the girlie bits at all. However (or unfortunately) I just don't 'get' FF stories - but if there's a F/F scene in a predominantly M/F book, I can usually manage that.

Since I've been reading MM, I can't say I've really found a MF romance that's interested me.

I guess for the most part that could be down to the fact I have so much MM to catch up on I haven't been looking all that hard, but part of the joy of discovering MM in the first place was the feeling I'd read it all before with MF romance. Same story spun out with different names, even the characters were basically the same just a differnt city/planet/century.

If it's a particular theme, with the romance as secondary I think I'd go with it or perhaps no ramance at all.

I've not read any M/F since I got into M/M. I still plan on buying a couple of M/F books that's not finished in series I followed from way back when though :p But overall M/F doesn't interest me much anymore. And that's probably some of my own fault, and not only the genres fault. I think I read too many books with the same theme, and..well...too much rubbish really.
+ for me there's too many rules in M/F.
I simply enjoy M/M books more. Don't mind M/M/F though ^^

I read M/F and M/M and sometimes M/M/F. I find plenty to like about M/F books and have never stopped reading them and doubt that I ever will. I think M/M books can become just as boring as some think M/F books are, you just have to search for the quality ones in both. I think M/M books seem a bit newer and like they are more original at times because I haven't read them for the last 20 years like M/F ones. But really for me, they aren't when you get down to it. So many have the exact same bones to them, just like M/F books do, if not more so. I love originality and welcome it, it's not a coincidence that some of my favorite books are about more than just the relationship in the book or a different way to showcase that relationship, but more than that I look for something well written with characters I can enjoy, I don't need the mold broken each time. I'm ultimately looking for an enjoyable, memorable read and I still find that in both M/M and M/F.

I don't read historical romances and I don't read much that would be considered more of a throwback with ultra traditional roles. I'm not a fan of meek women and so I'm not drawn to those books many times. It could happen, I might even love it, but that's not usually going to be what I'm reading in the first place, so I'm not really reading much where the women are forced into specific roles that would annoy me.

Jazz wrote: "I read M/F and M/M and sometimes M/M/F. I find plenty to like about M/F books and have never stopped reading them and doubt that I ever will. I think M/M books can become just as boring as some thi..."

That's a really good point that some MM is all the same too. As with everything, if a publisher finds something that works for readers they keep supplying it.

I'm trying to remember what the last thing I read was that isn't considered romance and I'm at a loss. I read a lot of academic texts and those stick in my mind more than fiction (thank goodness - lol).

I used to read a sci-fi and fantasy but don't tend to do that either any more. Maybe I should dust off some of the bookshelves and see what's there.