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‘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 human…

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The Guardian United Kingdom · 18 October 2026

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