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Picture the cover of a romance novel. Right now. You already know what I'm talking about. Fabio or some other shirtless man with a Heroic Build and long hair, with a buxom woman in his arms/wrapped behind him/within torso's reach behind a colorful sunset.

Compare Leg Cling.

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Examples

Comic Books

• In the back cover of the trade paperback Mad Love, Harley Quinn sighs wistfully as she reads a romance novel with a cover featuring her and The Joker in this kind of pose (but with a grenade)

Film

• Naked Gun 2 1/2 makes fun of this trope.

Literature

• Every romance novel ever
• The inside front cover of the paperback edition of Misery, which featured a romance writer protagonist, is a hilarious parody of a romance paperback cover◊ with a very familiar male model.

Live-Action TV

• An episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway? had Ryan Stiles striking these kinds of poses during a game of Party Quirks.
• One America's Next Top Model photoshoot from Cycle 7 had the girls posing for one of these with Fabio himself.

Video Games

• Gaia Online has "The Lusty Scoundrel" in order to make your avatar invoke this trope

Web Original

• Smart Bitches, Trashy Books calls these "clinch covers" and has fun mocking the more ridiculous ones.

Western Animation

• The Simpsons: Marge had an Imagine Spot with her as the heroine and Homer as the hunky, flowing-locks guy.

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