"dick lit" meaning in English

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          "text": "\"I am really tired of reading about sad women and bad sex, especially in laddish terms - all that dick-lit stuff,\" she says dismissively.",
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          "ref": "2004, Leslie Schur, The Dog Walker, Atria Books",
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