>>As a feminist and a romance novelist, if I wrote about a male protagonist who made unwanted sexual advances towards his female employee or ignored pleas to slow down or stop trying to have sex with a date, I would be pilloried by my readers
So why did women push 50 Shades of Grey to the top seller list?
Why do they call the novels “bodice rippers?”
Urban Dictionary: bodice ripper
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bodice%20ripper
An historical romance where the heroine has lots of non-consensual sex, which becomes consensual. The book needs to have a gaudy cover with a woman with an extraordinarily long neck, heaving bosoms, and flowing hair, and a brooding man.
There’s a massive difference between 50 shades (which I only read about and never read), and bodice rippers (which I actually also don’t enjoy, but have read). The first seems to get off on degradation. The second on passionate encounters. Bodice rippers were fascinating when I was of babysitting age. Then you grow up and don’t need them. But I have no memory of their plots humiliating the characters.