Bonkbuster

Bonkbuster (a play on "blockbuster" and the verb "to bonk") is a term coined in 1988 by British writer Sue Limb to describe a subgenre of commercial romance novels in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as their subsequent miniseries adaptations. In 2002 the Oxford English Dictionary recognized this portmanteau, defining it as "a type of popular novel characterized by frequent explicit sexual encounters between the characters." In 2016 Jilly Cooper, who was called "the queen of the bonkbuster", suggested that the term ought to be updated to "shagbusters" as "bonk" felt out-of-date.

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