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"ref": "2009, Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds, The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, page 156:",
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"ref": "2012, Harlan Ellison, Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed:",
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"ref": "2014, Mike King, Quakernomics: An Ethical Capitalism, page 204:",
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"text": "There was, nearly always, ecstasy at the moment of entry. Jesus. What a cheap, bodice-ripping insult of a word.",
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"ref": "2006, Entrepreneur Press, Start Your Own Seminar Production Business, page 48:",
"text": "If you're going to be selling workshops on how to write a winning romance novel to romance writers' groups, you know every would-be bodice-ripping author in five states.",
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"ref": "2010, Gay Lynch, Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History:",
"text": "His realist twenty-first century marital rape pays literal homage to the bodice-ripping violence of popular historical romances: He backhanded her again, much harder, and threw her backwards across the bed.",
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"ref": "2015, Louis Paul, Italian Horror Film Directors, page 304:",
"text": "Polselli seemed to have been deeply a›ected by the British Hammer vampire movies, for his two early productions are steeped in nice-looking atmospheric sets and cast with busty, bodice-ripping actresses.",
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"ref": "2009, Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds, The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, page 156:",
"text": "The Dutch sado-masochism, represented first by the Vroom women's attempts at seducing Mason (through multiple bodice-rippings and invitations to spank) for the purpose of reproducing slaves, is further accentuated in a similarly contrived orgy -- described as ritualistic opportunity to transcend societal norms and delineations -- where \"Lust is schedul'd, splashing outside the Church-drawn boundaries of marriage, as across racial lines.\"",
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{
"ref": "2012, Harlan Ellison, Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed:",
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"ref": "2014, Mike King, Quakernomics: An Ethical Capitalism, page 204:",
"text": "Naomi Klein is right to call Atlas Shrugged 'pulp' – there is plenty of bodice-ripping in its romantic sections, and, very significantly, there are never any babies produced.",
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},
{
"ref": "2006, Entrepreneur Press, Start Your Own Seminar Production Business, page 48:",
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{
"ref": "2010, Gay Lynch, Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History:",
"text": "His realist twenty-first century marital rape pays literal homage to the bodice-ripping violence of popular historical romances: He backhanded her again, much harder, and threw her backwards across the bed.",
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},
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"ref": "2015, Louis Paul, Italian Horror Film Directors, page 304:",
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