... these romances saying about sex? Sex is one of the first features one thinks of when one thinks about romance novels. Romance novels typically include multiple sex scenes between the hero and heroine. It would be understandable then, to assume that women's perceptions of sex might be influenced by what they read in these romance novels. Such influence over sex perceptions is fine, especially when the scenes portray sex as a loving act between two people. But, what happens when that is not how sex is portrayed? What happens when the sex in romance novels is shown as forced? What happens when rape appears in romance novels? For my honors thesis, I propose to study the question above. That is, I will [TJL5]study how the appearance of rape in romance novels affects the perceptions of rape in America. How does the fact that rape in romance novels ends in love change ...

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