Romance novels get sexier
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Bodice rippers get more explicit and the Romantic Novelists Association is holding seminars to help romance writers learn how to sex up their pablum.
Even romantic novelists are rejecting coy references to heaving bosoms in favour of explicit storylines that include a company chief executive feigning a broken ankle to sleep with his friend's teenage daughter, and a female undergraduate's adventures in the red light district of Liverpool.
Explicit sex now used to lure young women readers
