The Lady's Tutor by Robin Schone
Welcome to Robin Schone's\xa0The Lady's Tutor.\xa0\xa0She's a wealthy Victorian politician's wife, proper in every way.\xa0 He's a halfbreed bastard... oh god I can't with this racist book, I just can't.\xa0 It's about a woman who asks for sex lessons with no lab component, and then she realizes her husband sucks and opts for the lab after all.\xa0\xa0
This is one Sara had very fond memories of that... did not necessarily hold up.\xa0 It has some major content warnings - it's got Evil Gays complete with political pederasty ring.\xa0 It's a sheik book - the kind where don't worry he's mostly white anyway.\xa0 It's got literal gaslighting (they threaten to have her institutionalized and when the threats don't work they try to murder her by blowing the gas lamp out.)\xa0 It's the first book we've read that's obsessed with penis size.\xa0 It's got some genuinely strange sex scenes in it.\xa0 (Pro tip to any aspiring romance writers - the word "cervix" is never sexy.)\xa0\xa0It's got some seriously nasty body shaming directed at the heroine from her awful husband.\xa0 It's got\xa0attempted murder by Spanish fly.\xa0\xa0It's a whole ass mess.