Are romance novels of today still allowed to be bodice rippers, or do publishers not allow this sort of romance genre to exist anymore?

The content in some of these Booktok books (particularly what people tend to refer to as ‘dark romance’ books) are a lot more outlandish and innapropriate than any of the romance novels from the past that I’ve read. And not only is the content much more NSFW, but it’s also much more accessible for younger kids - they can download it from online websites, and even when shopping in store, these books do not tend to have any age restrictions placed on them.

Whether they’re allowed, I’m not sure.

Charlotte.

Hello, I have a question about astral projection. I started to get interested in this a little while after my mum passed in april. I thought I may be able to see her and speak with her if I managed to achieve astral projection. Since this interest, every time i sleep on my back I go into sleep paralysis. However, I cant progress into astral projection because it is very scary for me as I feel like I'm suffocating when this happens. I panic and force myself to wake up. This only ever happened about once a year before this. It sometimes lasts a long time. This has happened about 3 times per week since my mum died, as mentioned on a previous post. I no longer try to go into it anymore(due to the suffocating feeling), but it still happens. I read that sleep paralysis is the pathway to astral projection. Why has this started to happen so frequently since simply taking an interest in it? Is this connected to the afterlife? I am concerned about it as I now cannot seem to stop this happening. Could it be my mum trying to communicate? Im asking due to more knowledge around this in this group.

But they definitely do exist. I worked as a part-time cashier a a bookshop during my freshman year in university (partly how I came to love reading in the first place). You would not believe the amount of times that I’ve seen children picking up the most horrendously inappropriate books and getting their parents to pay for them. I, of course, could not say anything (as part of my job policy).

But I can assure you that those books were definitely ‘bodice-rippers’, made popular from a small community on the social media app ‘Tiktok’. This community is referred to as ‘Booktok’ - and you can often find trending books on there ranging from adventure and fantasy to containing the most outrageous content.