He took a stand for her and now she wants to be his slave. For all intents and purposes, he had to kill that guy because he took liberties with his ‘property’ and this would ruin is ‘market value’ as a supplier of women. At this point, she didn’t even know he is a good guy. She just falls for Q (her owner) because he killed the person who raped her. But that does not mean attention from your ‘owner’ and potential rapist should make you happy. I understand that she is someone who craved attention and love because of years of neglect from her parents. There are so many things additionally wrong with it. And I don’t know why we are desensitizing them to sex slavery by unnecessarily putting fantasies of ‘moral’ and ‘righteous’ owners.īut, Tears of Tess is not limited to these problems. The audience of such books is mainly very impressionable young girls. Worse than that, the romanticization of such an act really scares me. I am fed up of the obsession with women being auctioned into slavery. Why should the female always get beat up?ģ.

We are willing to normalize rape and violence in the name of ‘dark romance’ but we can’t seem to fathom a Dom female and a Sub male. When are we going to break out of gender stereotyping even when we are being risqué. Why can’t we create a healthy environment about sexual desires?Ģ. Why do you have to portray her as someone who feels like a slut/whore because she is into BDSM. The first and the biggest one is that why a guy who likes BDSM has to be portrayed as broken or perverse. I have started having a lot of problems with the genre of dark romance itself.ġ. To be honest, I don’t think Tess could have shed more tears than I did.

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