50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twilight

[indranee]

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We need Ms Thang back for that!

Ziyal, how're you doing, btw? Doing ok?

 

[Tora Ziyal]

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^Thanks for asking, Indranee. I'm hanging in. I don't want to derail the thread by answering in more detail. I was already planning to do an update sometime in the next week, so keep your eye on the Misc folder...

 

[indranee]

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Good! So glad to know it

 

[Dream]

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Fifty Shades of Grey baby boom and baby paraphernalia

It's happening. The Fifty Shades of Grey baby boom we here at The Stir predicted months ago is very much a "thing." Moms are announcing right and left that Christian Grey got them pregnant (with a little help from a real live man).

But ladies, some of y'all seem to be taking this obsession just a wee bit too far. Can we just talk about the Fifty Shades baby paraphernalia? It's here. And it's kind of creepy!

Take the onesie that reads "I'm a Fifty Shades baby." It might sound all sweet and innocent, but let's fast forward about, oh, 10 years. Your 10-year-old is paging through the family album and asks "What's Fifty Shades, Mommy?"

Will you be ready to answer that one? Especially when the follow up question is "OK, but what does that kinky sex book have to do with ME?" Face. Palm.

Those poor babies!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

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I admire the person making money out of 50 Shades onesies.

My friend read it and said it was very un-erotic and was very tame. "No fisting" was her complaint. I wouldn't know as I have not even cracked the cover. The protagonist being a virgin completely put me off.

Someone probably posted this already..

 

[Dream]

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My friend read it and said it was very un-erotic and was very tame. "No fisting" was her complaint. I wouldn't know as I have not even cracked the cover. The protagonist being a virgin completely put me off.

Fisting? I'm grossed out about that whole thing.

Why does the protagonist being a virgin put you off?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

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Because anything about deflowering is a man's power fantasy.

And yes when she said "fisting" I was like..

I resisted the urge to probe further. Or rather I resisted the immediate urge to say, "should I probe further?" Her husband is eminently trollable however so I may yet extract some details.

 

[Dream]

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Because anything about deflowering is a man's power fantasy.

But these books are written by a woman for women. They seem like they are for those want to be dominated.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

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That may be.. or not. As I said I've never cracked the cover. There is a lot to read out there and if I want to read erotic porn I would probably head for fanfic from a fandom I already have feelings for, unlike Twilight. Just because it's written by a woman doesn't mean I won't be enraged by it.

 

[stoneroses]

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There are so many other books I want to read before I would wipe my backside with this.

 

[Dream]

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'Fifty Shades of Grey' helps Barnes & Noble sales

The raunchy novels in the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy are serving a purpose beyond riling up housewives. The erotic tomes are whipping -- so to speak -- sales at Barnes & Noble Inc. back into shape.

The series by E.L. James -- often referred to as "mommy porn" for its themes of sexual submission and dominance -- helped boost the bookseller's first quarter, which ended July 28.

Overall revenue at Barnes & Noble's nearly 700 bookstores and BN.com rose 2% to $1.1 billion in the quarter. Though sales on the website declined, same-store sales in the brick-and-mortar shops jumped 4.6%.

Part of the increase is due to competitor Borders liquidating its stores last year, according to the company. But "strong sales" from "Fifty Shades" also contributed.

Good for them? They should send the author a gift basket full of BDSM porn.

 

[Lumi]

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My boyfriend brought up this series last night, so having never heard of it, I did a wiki search.

Honestly confused as to why he brought it up at all. I am the last person on earth who'd want to read that trash. I'd be bored and would never finish it.

Sure, a good love story with a bit of sexuality in it is okay... but... I'll never get why stuff like this is popular. Anyway, if you're really lonely and have no sex life and this is why you're reading it, wouldn't it just be depressing?

 

[Methos]

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don't read it... please don't... i read the first few chapters, and found it insulting and completely unrealistic for a BDSM relationship...

That series of books has done more harm to BDSM than any politician or law has done in the past 20 years...

M

 

[FPAlpha]

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My boyfriend brought up this series last night, so having never heard of it, I did a wiki search.

Honestly confused as to why he brought it up at all. I am the last person on earth who'd want to read that trash. I'd be bored and would never finish it.

Sure, a good love story with a bit of sexuality in it is okay... but... I'll never get why stuff like this is popular. Anyway, if you're really lonely and have no sex life and this is why you're reading it, wouldn't it just be depressing?

Maybe he wanted you to get some ideas for your.. private time

 

[Australis]

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Guy I work with said his wife has been reading them, and he's had more sex in a month than he's had in a year. But once she was finished, "it was like a tap turning off."

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

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My boyfriend brought up this series last night, so having never heard of it, I did a wiki search.

Honestly confused as to why he brought it up at all. I am the last person on earth who'd want to read that trash. I'd be bored and would never finish it.

Sure, a good love story with a bit of sexuality in it is okay... but... I'll never get why stuff like this is popular. Anyway, if you're really lonely and have no sex life and this is why you're reading it, wouldn't it just be depressing?

Maybe he wanted you to get some ideas for your.. private time

I was going to say.. I would be asking him why he brought it up. Perhaps it was a very roundabout way of raising some ideas.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

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Guy I work with said his wife has been reading them, and he's had more sex in a month than he's had in a year. But once she was finished, "it was like a tap turning off."

He needs to ask her.. sweetie? How can we turn this tap on again?

 

[Methos]

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it's worth remembering that this set of books, originally started out as Twilight fanfiction...

Now i'm all for fanfic authors branching out and becoming true authors themselves, but i'd always want the author to do some actual real research into the 'universe' they're writing in...

To use an example here... it'd be like someone writing a Star Trek book with only a basic understanding of the Star Trek universe... using technical terms and gadgets from Star Wars, Stargate, and Firefly throughout the storyline, without actually looking into the way Star Trek uses Phasers, Warp Drive, or Photon Torpedoes...

The knowledge about the 'universe' you're writing in is everything, it's pretty paramount to any style of writing... and it's pretty obvious from reading any of the 'Shades of Grey' series, that the author doesn't even have a basic understanding of the BDSM lifestyle, or what rules, and safety concerns there are within...

If this 'Mr Grey' was actually real, he'd have been shunned from any BDSM community around the world for his ideas and 'wants' in a slave... at most his a misogynistic asshole with no real idea of SSC (Safe, Sane and Consensual), or RACK (Risk Aware Consensual Kink), who has only basic knowledge of the tools and equipment he's depicted using in the book...

M

 

[Starkers]

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Guy I work with said his wife has been reading them, and he's had more sex in a month than he's had in a year. But once she was finished, "it was like a tap turning off."

So at least one person in the world is hoping she writes some more!

In the UK at least there seem to be hundreds of similar books suddenly for sale. Is it the same in your neck of the woods? Maybe he should buy them all and ration them out to her!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

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it's worth remembering that this set of books, originally started out as Twilight fanfiction...

Now i'm all for fanfic authors branching out and becoming true authors themselves, but i'd always want the author to do some actual real research into the 'universe' they're writing in...

To use an example here... it'd be like someone writing a Star Trek book with only a basic understanding of the Star Trek universe... using technical terms and gadgets from Star Wars, Stargate, and Firefly throughout the storyline, without actually looking into the way Star Trek uses Phasers, Warp Drive, or Photon Torpedoes...

The knowledge about the 'universe' you're writing in is everything, it's pretty paramount to any style of writing... and it's pretty obvious from reading any of the 'Shades of Grey' series, that the author doesn't even have a basic understanding of the BDSM lifestyle, or what rules, and safety concerns there are within...

If this 'Mr Grey' was actually real, he'd have been shunned from any BDSM community around the world for his ideas and 'wants' in a slave... at most his a misogynistic asshole with no real idea of SSC (Safe, Sane and Consensual), or RACK (Risk Aware Consensual Kink), who has only basic knowledge of the tools and equipment he's depicted using in the book...

M

But no one cares. It's fiction. No one is reading this thinking OMG this is such a cool insight into a real life "community".