slaves, tell me about 50 Shades of Grey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisha_beacon

It's a flashing orange light on top of poles at pedestrian crossings in the UK. I managed to live in the UK for 30 or so years without knowing what they were called.

you must have been agate with fury.

His inner goddess sure was.

I gaze at him and shrug, trying to brazen out my shock.

“It’s not top of my Christmas card list,” I mutter nonchalantly.

For some reason I keep reading that as 'brazen out my sock'.

that reminds me, musn't forget to send the butt drawer a christmas card this year

'to brazen out' as a transitive verb phrase, that is some next level moron poetry

lol i suppose this is the thread where i confess that i once read an erotic gay s/m novel at the recommendation of a (straight, female) friend and it was actually, well, not a 'good' novel but at least compelling and decently written and i found it quite steamy despite my reservations

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ce9aPvPAL._SL500_.jpg

also radically changed my view of robert guillaume forever

Unlucky-in-love crooner John Mayer thought he had discovered the ultimate serenade: putting erotic chick lit to music.

In an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Tuesday, the Grammy winner, 34, admitted he attempted--unsuccessfully--to woo a woman he was interested in by performing a page from racy bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey.

"I was trying to impress her, and she had [the book] on her Kindle," Mayer revealed. "And so I said, 'I'm going to sing it to you.' So I sang her one of the pages of Fifty Shades of Grey."

Host Jimmy Fallon cracked up hearing Mayer recount his story. "Oh my gosh. And she died on the spot? She's now dead?" he questioned his guest.

"She fell to the ground . . .laughing," Mayer admitted sheepishly.

He would.

lol Mr. Benson

lol enbb, i am imagining benson in a peaked leather cap with a riding crop in his mouth

No crop but: Best Beloved Benson

(maybe nsfw but because of words on image not image itself)

loling at "Mr Benson"

occurred to me that the Kindle is what has made this book so big, because who wants to be seen holding a porno book on the subway?

This is exactly what's happening here, with 10 million copies sold.

I'm sorry I'm still stuck on 'brazen out my shock'

you just need to bemused out your disbelief, vg

Joe Eszterhas has been gunning hard to write the screenplay (really).

xpost I think I'm just going to alcohol out my consciousness

Eazy please tell me you're not serious

and lo I beheld four horsemen...

what what? in the butt drawer

Adrian Lyne needs to come out of retirement for this one imo

A reanimated Coleman Francis could do the job

erogenous zone cuba

The Beast of Erotic Flats

imagining a monster who hates heels

a sexy monster

He gunned her hard in her *wink, wink*.

"I'm Cherokee Christian!"

lol

run a night train to mundo fine

http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/05/25/490132/fifty-shades-of-whatever-the-missed-opportunities-of-fifty-shades-of-grey/

For all its naughtiness, the book would faint dead away at anything so racy as an actual challenge to gender roles and sexual politics. Fifty Shades of Grey is the literary equivalent of telling a woman to meet her husband at the door dressed in saran wrap.

singing "mr. benson" in my head to the tune of "mr wendal"

http://m.gawker.com/5913971/florida-gives-in-to-horny-moms-lifts-the-ban-on-50-shades-of-grey

That was fast. Just a month after minivan-mom erotica 50 Shades of Grey was banned, Brevard County Florida has reneged on the ban and will return all 19 copies of the book to its' libraries

florida-gives-in-to-horny-moms

http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/05/25/490132/fifty-shades-of-whatever-the-missed-opportunities-of-fifty-shades-of-grey/

For all its naughtiness, the book would faint dead away at anything so racy as an actual challenge to gender roles and sexual politics. Fifty Shades of Grey is the literary equivalent of telling a woman to meet her husband at the door dressed in saran wrap.

― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Friday, May 25, 2012 12:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IDK, if anything I find this kind of opinion sort of retrograde

is saran wrap some kind of old school patriarch fetish

I don't know that soccer moms are really looking for porn that challenges gender roles and sexual politics; that seems less like "porn" and more like "someone's senior thesis"

hurting, i certainly don't want to proscribe what is or isn't okay in the bedroom or erotic fiction. not my place, two consenting adults, etc. but that linked article (which isn't terribly well written, i'll admit) says something which i agree with 100% -- that it's an largely incorrect & simplistic depiction of sexual power dynamics & bdsm

I think we can all agree with that, but I think the larger point is that people are not reading to see if the depiction of sexual power is accurate; people are reading so they can fantasize about a rich man playing with their butt plug

hahaha, otm

A very large number of women apparently find this particular "incorrect" and "simplistic" depcition of BDSM power dynamics hot.

And blogging that trash fan-fic turned bestseller porn represents a "missed opportunity" to challenge sexual politics and gender roles is just, wow, BORING.

also fwiw a commenter on that blog says that the sequels do address some of the very issues mentioned in the blog so w/e.

xp it's a lot less boring than the book tbh

I'm sure the book is completely terrible and I will continue to enjoy its mockery

as long as we're all on the same page there.

i just think the success of this book, judged against its actual content, has a lot of ppl scratching their heads because it's boring, not-sexy, and not anywhere near as thrillingly transgressive as the fans would have you believe, i mean "controlling bastard spanks college co-ed" is not exactly breaking new ground

Fiction book found to be largely incorrect & simplistic, film at 11