As women all across the country are falling in love with one Christian Grey, my first thoughts were to question why?! To me, his so called “charm" is degrading, and his crazy fetishes are even more so. Now, I claim to be no feminist, but a female author writing about the submissiveness of another woman to some ‘god-like’ man, irritated me a bit. Nevertheless, I stuck it out and continued to read, desperate to know what all the fuss is about.
It wasn’t until I reached somewhere after the half way mark, that I really started to get the allure of Christian Grey, and the story as a whole. It may not be the seemingly perfect relationship of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, but it’s just as unrealistic yet slightly more exciting (even without the vamps and wolves). A broken, lost Mr Grey is unveiled, and James teases us with snippets of information that may explain his dangerous sexual nature. This added storyline of a wealthy, mistreated, and supposedly beautiful man, makes the book harder to put down, and understandable as to why it’s a crowd pleaser.
It’s no PG 13 novel, and I assume the reason for its popularity is down to the detailed descriptions of a Dominant’s fetish-filled sex life. Middle aged women are going crazy this summer, leaving copies of the books open on a ‘raunchy bit’ for their partners to see come bedtime.
Maybe it’s the fact that our generation is more sexualised and open, but I didn’t find it all that shocking. Uncomfortable at parts, sure. But when that much detail is used about another couples sex life, it’s enough to make anyone cringe. I vowed not to read the remaining two books, completing the trilogy, but I think I’m going to have to eat my words and continue to delve into the mainstream erotic-yet-with-a-storyline novels. As men have said: “it’s just more acceptable for women to read about porn than it is to watch it."
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