Old Skool vs New: Consent in the Supernatural

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

Consent in romance can be a bit tricky to unpack giventhe less than vaunted history of rape fantasies and forced seduction in the genre. One of the most common slurs against the romance genre is that they are nothing more than “bodice rippers,” novels where the pristine heroine is “forced” to succumb to her older, more-experience lover as he reveals her untapped passion. I put forced deliberately in quotes because in such old skool romances, as we refer to them now, the...