Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili
@Methos: "Rack"...
@Methos: "Rack"...

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...
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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".
The primary appeal of the book seems to lie in the psychological implications of bdsm, not in pushing the limits of sex acts for their own sake. It's a case of, forgive me, "more than meets the eye."I got the book cheap just to see what all the fuss was about. I haven't read the second or third books, so I can't comment on them, but as for the first, unless you find a blowjob to be particularly shocking I don't really get what the big deal is.
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...
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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...
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