But if you want to understand how far behind society is in understanding dating, just try to find a stock photo of a plus-size woman and a thin man posing together in a romantic setting.

I formerly worked in advertising, and we used stock photos constantly for client websites and ads. Today, I write romance novels on the side, and believe it or not, most of the covers you see out there use stock photos.

You can find anything. There are thousands. You can find one in your sleep.

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Want a dancing possum to punch up your blog post for some reason? I literally found seven images on my first try. Now try to locate a picture of a curvy woman posing with a slender man.

So did my book cover designer, who does this all day everyday and can normally lay her hands on any kind of image she wants. Here is what I found: Hundreds of steamy pictures of thin women and thin men posing seductively. Hundreds of sweetly romantic pictures of slender women and slender men posing adorably. Dating small fat of pictures of hugely pregnant thin women posing with thin men. I did find a few pictures of beautiful plus-size ladies posing seductively in lingerie. In not one instance were these ladies posing with skinny guys.

What is the message there? That plus-size ladies can be very sexy but they will still be sexy alone? You will also see any guy of plus-size couples working out at "skinny" gym together. What is the purpose of those photos?

I do not waste time staring at my food before eating it. Am I supposed to stare at my food before taking a bite? For how many hours? It was that or shoot a custom photo, but hiring a good photographer and models is a major expense usually undertaken only by best-selling novelists, which I am not. Or plus-size men with thin ladies. Or curvy ladies with plus-size men. Same-sex and interacial couples are no longer rare, and neither, thankfully, are stock photos of such couples.

But where are the couples in which one or both partners are plus-size? I wondered, when I first met him, if my weight would be an issue for him. It never has been.

Countless other couples love each other regardless of how thin or not thin their partner might be. Hey, professional photographers and stock photo companies, catch up.

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It is Get out there and take some pictures that do so. Reach Sophia at sophia curvicality. Your feisty guy is sitting on the couch bingeing season after fat of deer hunting shows, simultaneously spilling popcorn all over the floor. Fourteen years ago, I married a European.

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