The first part of what looks to be an amazing and incisive series on the complicated history of what we call bodice rippers in the context of laws against marital rape in the late 20th/early 21st century. Not a light essay, but wide-ranging and compelling.

https://restorativeromance.substack.com/p/ripper-restoration-part-1

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