{"id":10184,"date":"2011-07-07T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10184"},"modified":"2011-07-07T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T17:00:43","slug":"bodice-rippers-guilty-of-perverting-womens-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/07\/bodice-rippers-guilty-of-perverting-womens-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bodice-rippers&#8221; guilty of perverting women&#8217;s lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/jul\/07\/mills-and-boon-sexual-health-problems?CMP=twt_fd\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a> thinks that women are weak-willed and easily (mis-)lead, especially when it comes to their sex lives:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mills &#038; Boon&#8217;s romance novels should come with a health warning, according to a report published in an academic journal.<\/p>\n<p>Blaming romance novels for unprotected sex, unwanted pregnancies, unrealistic sexual expectations and relationship breakdowns, author and psychologist Susan Quilliam says that &#8220;what we see in our consulting rooms is more likely to be informed by Mills &#038; Boon than by the Family Planning Association&#8221;, advising readers of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care that &#8220;sometimes the kindest and wisest thing we can do for our clients is to encourage them to put down the books &mdash; and pick up reality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments follow a recent claim that romance novels can &#8220;dangerously unbalance&#8221; their readers, with Christian psychologist Dr Juli Slattery saying she was seeing &#8220;more and more women who are clinically addicted to romantic books&#8221;, and that &#8220;for many women, these novels really do promote dissatisfaction with their real relationships&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, The Guardian thinks that women are weak-willed and easily (mis-)lead, especially when it comes to their sex lives: Mills &#038; Boon&#8217;s romance novels should come with a health warning, according to a report published in an academic journal. Blaming romance novels for unprotected sex, unwanted pregnancies, unrealistic sexual expectations and relationship breakdowns, author and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,79,66,28],"tags":[139,255,43],"class_list":["post-10184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-education","category-health-science","category-media","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Eg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10185,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184\/revisions\/10185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}