Here is what I love about this juicy series:
- Porn for the ladies has gone mainstream, which helps our culture acknowledge women have needs, too.
- It broadens people's sexual horizons and provides a delicious "Vanilla Sex" guidebook.
- Finally, the "release" needed after reading page after page of sexual tension with almost ZERO graphic intercourse in the "Twilight" and "Hunger Games" book/movie series.
Here's what I don't love about this book:
- The protagonist Anastasia Steele can't be a grown-up and say "vagina" or any other real words to describe her female anatomy (I counted it once).
- How unrealistic is it for a modern day secular, hot, 21-year old skinny bitch in COLLEGE to have only achieved first base by graduation, not have her own computer, and be dumbfounded by text messaging and email?
- Yet another book about an insecure girl who's only hobby is reading classic English literature, let's a domineering, wealthy man control her life, and has a super-hot "brown" man lusting after her who's "just a friend" (almost verbatim to Bella in "Twilight").
I will be the first to admit, reading these books classifies me as a stereotypical, 30-something heterosexual woman, but I know I'm not alone (Saturday Night Live captured the phenomenon perfectly!). I need something to balance out the onslaught of educational content I absorb on the regular from the likes of "The Economist", technical white papers and NPR. Plus, I love me some porn. Not Jenna Jamison-style porn, but Red Shoe Diaries type porn that's unfortunately, very hard to find (Future blog post: Where to Find Good Female Porn).
Who should star as "Christian Grey" in the "50 Shades of Grey" movie?
There are rumors the book series is being made into a movie. Tell me, who do YOU want to see if they make a movie?
My Picks? Ryan Gosling & Matt Bomer.
