Citations:bodice-rippery

Noun: "(informal) the archetypical content of bodice rippers; violent or aggressive sex in romance fiction"

 * 1990, Peter T. Garratt, "Ys OK", Interzone, May 1990, page 66:
 * She says that her first novel was born out of a profound love of medieval history, but I fear that what she really loves is historical romance, fantasy, and bodice-rippery.
 * 2013, Andrea Dale Lapin, "A Body of Text: Physical Culture and the Marketing of Mobility", thesis submitted to the University of Pittsburgh, pages 8-9:
 * From the scandal-mongering Evening Graphic to the confessional bodice-rippery of True Story, Macfadden Publications maximized readership, scandalized censors, and changed the face of print culture.
 * 2016, The Chemist review, Kirkus Reviews, 15 November 2016, page 188:
 * A tale of skulduggery, bodice rippery, and shoot-’em-up action unfolds, complete with help from a luscious mistress of disguise who could have stepped right out of a James Bond novel.
 * 2020, Hannah McCann & Catherine M. Roach, "Sex and sexuality", in The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction (eds. Jayashree Kamblé, Eric Murphy Selinger, & Hsu-Ming Teo), page 422:
 * While the genre has generally distanced itself from bodice-rippery, romance authors do continue to play with the look or feel or meaning of non-consensual sex and what’s sometimes called “dubious consent” or “dub-con” sex.