I have been told my whole life that it is wrong to objectify women. That a woman is more than just a body, that she has a mind, and a personality, and should not be judged by her looks or looked at as a sexual "thing." Fine, that's all well and good. I personally don't see anything wrong with looking at attractive people and thinking they're attractive, but let's leave that be because it's beside the point.
My main problem is that these same women will drool all over themselves and make disgusting remarks about the men on the covers of their "romance" novels. Ever heard of a double standard, ladies?
The rise of these types of novels on the Kindle and elsewhere irks me to no end, to be perfectly frank about it. Slap something together that's about a hundred pages full of sex and gods-awful dialogue, go find some piece of meat to look vapidly out from the cover with his washboard abs and shaved groin all but completely exposed, and boom! you've got yourself a book. And the "ladies" just squeal and coo over them.
Some of us take the craft of storytelling seriously, folks. Some of us are trying to accomplish something. Some of us spend years building up our skills, honing our voices, and we want nothing more but to reach a real audience and touch them. Touch their hearts, not their junk.