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Originally Posted by Blossom
You do realize this book was written in 80s when there was restriction on how an author could write a historical heroine Historical heroines couldn't be sexy back then they were innocent little misses with few exceptions. We've come a long way. I think Beatrice Small's Skye O Malley (not for the weak at heart) was a big leap into more bolder heroines. I think you would like McNaught's Contemporaries in which the virgin heroine in Paradise seduces the hero to get back at her father.
Thank you for clarifying your stance on the article.
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I do realize that. That doesn't mean I agree that the, "it's okay for a woman to have sex only if she didn't agree to it" mentality is acceptable or defensible at any point in time, ever. The fact that there was no other way of doing it in the 80s says as much about the society the romance writing industry was placating as it does about the industry itself. None of it is positive.
And for the record, if the hero in the book you mentioned was seduced against his will, I have as much of a problem with that as I do with it being done to an innocent country miss in a regency novel. Active consent matters.