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Title: It's Just a Fantasy
Review: I find it humorous that so many rate this book so low because of the rape scene. You have to realize when this book was written. In the 1970's and 1980's there was a subgenre of romance novels called boddice rippers. Most romance readers couldn't get enough of them. They usually had a rape scene and after awhile the heroine would come to fall in love with the man who raped her. Some of the authors who wrote these books were Katherine Woodiwiss, Jennifer Wilde, etc. Apparently Victoria Holt figured she may as well try her hand at it, too.Pop psychology at that time said that many women had rape fantasies. It's true. That doesn't mean they want to be raped in real life. It's just an erotic fantasy. Most people know the difference between reality and fantasy. These bodice rippers are fantasy, and a lot of women got off on them. Nowadays, of course, it's totally politically incorrect to write this kind of book.
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