chinagreenelvis

I think it's a little of both, depending on your definition of "romance."

He's romantic in the antiquated, literary, Cervantes sense of the word. He's sex in the guise of romance in the modern, crappy, Harlequin sense of the word.

Well, I don't think I can say it any better than dweezie, so I'm not even going to try. Great quotation, by the way.