What do you think of the book 50 Shades of Grey?
Is this type of sex life a good thing & do you find it romantic? Why is the public opinion so divided on this sado-masochistic relationship? Regardless of the book being “fiction” is it really a good message to put out there? Mothers are sharing this book with their daughters which I think is wrong!
It is said that “no publicity is bad publicity” so I guess that is what has happened to the 50 Shades of Grey by author E L James. The popularity & controversy has made this trilogy into one of the most discussed books since Harry Potter by AK Rowlings. (This said with no disrespect towards Ms. Rowlings in a comparative sense!)
According to Amazon.com, & Amazon CO.UK 50 % love the book with 5 star ratings while the other 50% were not impressed with a 1 star rating.
4,671 Reviews Amazon.co.uk
Customer ReviewsFifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
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With so many people having trouble finding a healthy relationship today, is this story of S&M going to become the new trend or expectation in an average partnership? Are many couples bored & looking for new ways to create sexual excitement in their stale relationships? Why is this book so popular that it is now in discussion to become a movie?
Over the generations women fought hard to get the respect they deserve & not be someone’s submissive toy so why is the Sado-Masochistic relationship with billionaire Christian Grey & Anastasia Steel being romanticized today? Women are beaten on a daily basis in other countries, I wonder if they would find this type of sex play exciting? I don’t think people are really looking at the cloudy & disturbing message it is sending to young women & men. Mothers are sharing this book with their daughters which is disturbing on it’s own.
Many couples enjoy sexual fantasies within a normal relationship but are not required to sign a huge controlling non-disclosure document!
“Sadomasochism is the receiving of pleasure—often sexual—from acts involving the infliction or reception of pain or humiliation. A subset of BDSM, practitioners of sadomasochism usually seek out sexual gratification from these acts, but often seek out other forms of pleasure as well. While the terms sadist and masochist specifically refer to one who either enjoys giving pain (sadist), or one who enjoys receiving pain (masochist), many practitioners of sadomasochism describe themselves as at least somewhat of a switch, or someone who can receive pleasure from either inflicting or receiving pain.”
What do so many women like about this book? Why does this type of relationship make you want to read three of these books?
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I wish I could say this is the case but I understand the desire of it and the intoxicating effect it is, I was young and experienced a very violent child hood filled with things going on during a sexual revolution that was filled with such behavior to interpret as something that could be described by anything they did to each other in that book. It was not healthy in one form but in many others it was the perception of what love is. To place yourself in such a place is because you had felt something from it in the form of what love is. It was a twisted experience for Christian Grey cause we believe that it is his doing a choice to be in that way, yet he is a product of something more his mother showed him as being. I guess I could keep going, but the alarming rate in which we seek something that is S&M is nothing more than something that we need to experience because it is something we have experienced ourselves, in some way! a twelve year old who sits quietly in a closet as two adults consent in such behavior is not seen as rape, yet what passion was witnessed in two who were hiding this cheating on their spouses was exhilarating and created unknown understanding of what these two were doing as they did things to each other. Well the man took complete dominance over the woman and tore her pantyhose off and placed his fingers inside her and then allowed other things to be witnessed by the 12 year old. In hiding what would happen to this child as soon as his time to come would be before him alone and not knowing what it was, but felt this inside of him. What would his urges be? How would you heal such a thing? what would he do to the person he was with? why would that not be intoxicating as he grew older to realize her pleasure was why he was? I can only speak from being that 12 year old in a former life. It was an addiction and it was painful in it’s understanding but it did have a point of origin as all men/women have! It has a place of intoxication where it starts whether violent or other. It happened in a evolution of hiding not in presence to create understanding. I am not sure if this made sense. But I wanted to respond while compelled to explain the why! The 70′s and 80′s were filled with revolution and evolution all surfacing in some way! Great session and post my friend!