The Classic Romance Cover

As the seventies rolled into the eighties, you really see the classic romance cover come into being. A man and a woman, his abs glistening, her hair blowing in the wind. They're locked in a passionate embrace. The eighties were the heyday of the half ned painted men, women with their bodices sort of half off, and gravity defying hair. This type of cover became so ubiquitous in the romance genra that it got a name, the clinch.