Cleavage (An introduction to romance and to the Smart Bitches) -- Petticoat (A brief history of the modern romance novel ; The Bitches' Dictionary) -- Corset (An in-depth investigation of the romance heroine, emphasis, obviously, on "depth") -- Codpiece (The romance hero) -- Secret cowboy baby (Cringe-wothy plot devices we know and love) -- WTF (Defending the genre [No, it's not chick porn, dammit]) -- Bad sex (Rape in romance) -- Love grotto (Good sex, please!) -- Phallus (The covers, and the reasons to snark them ; Controversies, scandals, and not being nice ; Choose your own man titty ; Color by numbers ; Write your own romance ; Spot the bullshit Regency term: it goes all the way up to eleven) -- Heaving bosom (The future of the genre)
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