‘Medieval romance overflowed with sexually active fairies’: the surprisingly long roots of romantasy

Critics mock it as raunchy trash – but this enchanting genre is much older, and wilder, than you might imagine There’s a popular genre, filled with beautiful, human-sized fairies having sex with humans (often quite violent sex, but the people reading it seem to enjoy it).
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