Good girls

After that last post I checked out a few book covers that speak of love and the route to romantic fulfilment. The main point of difference with the crime novel covers is a fashion one. The romances show us well-dressed, mainly classy women or career girls (nurses, flight attendants, secretaries) who would shudder at the idea that putting on a slutty dress or satin lingerie could enhance their love lives, even in the privacy of their own homes. Now that I think about it, secretaries are often crossovers from chaste career girls to fighting for the bosses' heart with every wile available to them.  
Anyway, what if someone aimed a gun at that classy girl and forced her to wear a sheer black nylon baby-doll nightgown and matching panties, made her put on that famous crimson lipstick and made her mix and drink a martini made with tequila?
They say we tend to shy away from doing things we know we shouldn't and I think that's almost always true but the idea of nudging someone over an invisible line appeals to me as a writer of crime novels. The dependence which might follow a successful transformation enhances the plot but the person enforcing the makeover has to say exactly the right words to reinforce the emotions involved. Beware, the girl could become a masked avenger or something, out to punish the man who made her wear crimson lipstick instead of her normal pink. How traumatic is that?

The covers:-