Are men in romance novels granted agency & subjectivity, and do readers have the same expectations for male consent as they do for female characters in M/F romance? Lynell from Weekend Reader has some thoughts on mutual consent in romance, especially as she’s binging dark mafia romance with kidnapping plots. What happens when your real life values conflict with your fantasy world values, and how do ideas about happily ever after change as our culture changes?
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Guest: Lynell from Weekend Reader
Books Mentioned:
Sabbatical by Katrina Jackson
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion At a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming
The Spies That Love Her series: Her Only Valentine by Katrina Jackson
Toying with Temptation by AH Cunningham
Georgia Acadian series by Dria Anderson
The Vindication of the Rights of Man in Romance Novels