Writing Consent Into Romance Novels

Yes, in the 1970s and 1980s, there were some famous bodice-rippers – the kind where women are “overcome” by lusty men, and fall for their rapists over the course of the book. But that was then, and this is now. Author Jasmine Guillory: “One of the women told me that she wanted her little girl, when she got old enough, to read my book to know what consent was and how a man should treat her.”