BDSM

It won’t be too out of the pocket to compare dark romance to Pandora’s box. You open dark romance novels and the trigger warnings come flying out of the page. However, just like hope, there’s an element that stays silently behind, waiting for you to notice it, i.e. consent. The portrayal of consent in dark romance is a topic still debated heatedly, potentially because of how it’s woven into the fabric of reality. The genre these days explores consent in a variety of… creative ways, so to speak, while advocating its importance. Ironically, the history of consent in romance had…