Fifty Shades of Grey

Lotus-eater

daisiegg wrote: »

This book angers me hugely for a variety of different reasons......but I do love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLN0b6OQor4 this YouTube video

I don't know why I bothered reading it :rotfl:

poet123

madison-nyc wrote: »

sounds like real sex and not sex with mr grey! lol

i've just started book three as i just want to know how it all ends , i'm skim reading it really not paying much attention to the 'oh my' 'looks up from under his/her lashes' etc. the sex scenes are ridiculous with the endless and almost instant orgasms and she can also come on command too , very clever?!

I hope no virgin ladies are reading it thinking thats what real sex is like! they'll be in for some serious dissaponment!!! :rotfl:

Funny you should say that;) I work with someone who falls into that category and she has read all three avidly, and was waxing lyrical about them at work last week......

daisiegg

Bangton wrote: »

I thought the concept was weak...a sex contract just seemed ludicrous.

Not so ludicrous to a lot of people who live their lives that way.....but yes, ludicrious in the way she writes about it in this hideous book!!

Lotus-eater

Bangton wrote: »

a sex contract just seemed ludicrous.

No that's one of the most realistic bits :rotfl:

Everyone should fill one in for their partner before they get settled down, it would solve loads of martial problems before they happened.



Just seen an interview with the author http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpm_1iERyoU&feature=related
She did research on the internet apparently which explains alot. The youtube thing above says they are doing 50 shades themed bondage classes, to teach women how to do it do it.

Allegra

Bangton wrote: »

Book 1 bored me most of the way through actually. I thought the concept was weak...a sex contract just seemed ludicrous.

Trust me, in a relationship based on activities that can potentially really be quite dangerous, a contract is a very sensible means of determining that your partner knows what they are doing ! :cool:

Literary merit of the trilogy aside (the lass can't write for toffee), I also found the implication that a bloke has to be seriously emotionally damaged in order to want to deal with lasses in a rather firm fashion the most disturbing aspect of the whole - aside from that, what I felt most strongly while reading was the desire to hogtie and gag the irritating Ms Steele, and give her a good whipping. Perhaps ultimately that's all it boils down to....

As for the inexplicable mainstream success of it - frankly, the question isn't "why a book with BDSM sex scenes" - I really don't find that particularly remarkable at all - read this, for instance, and you'll see that the majority of women fantasise about someone else being in charge: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Womens-Sexual-Fantasies-Women/dp/0352337931/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1342554286&sr=8-8 - the question is "what is it about Twilight (as I believe that the greater part of the mainstream appeal of 50 Shades is purely down to it being Twilight fanfic) that appeals to adult women ? It's much clearer where the attraction is for its intended audience, the teenage girls - but why have their mothers fallen for it so heavily ?

Or to go even further back - why Vlad over Jonathan ? And why Phantom over Raoul ? Speaking of Drac, a quick poll for the ladies - Gary Oldman or Keanu Reeves ? I know which way I'd go....

Allegra

Lotus-eater wrote: »

martial problems

We still talking relationships ?

daisiegg

I can't remember who posted the link, but the blog where she has read it so we don't have to is AMAZING. Utterly hilarious...

daisiegg

Allegra wrote: »

Trust me, in a relationship based on activities that can potentially really be quite dangerous, a contract is a very sensible means of determining that your partner knows what they are doing ! :cool:
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Not that it would be helpful to the person doing the dangerous activities in the long run...as in the UK at least you can't legally consent to being harmed...

onlyroz

Allegra wrote: »

Speaking of Drac, a quick poll for the ladies - Gary Oldman or Keanu Reeves ? I know which way I'd go....

Pft, you insult us

Lotus-eater

Allegra wrote: »

We still talking relationships ?

No we now talking sex.
If everyone filled in a form to say what they were and weren't willing to do in a sexual relationship, before it started, it would stop alot of the problems........... before they started.