Romance Novel Redemption
Unladylike
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The Flame in the Flower
In the fifties and sixties, romance novels were kind of prudish. Kathleen woodowis came along and gave readers sexually explicit brandon on heather action. But liknicoll said that romance was also rape. The flame in the flower inspired the term bodice ripper. It usually involves a very power and balanced, sexually violent relationship.
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