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Aelin Lovelace ([personal profile] elialshadowpine) wrote 2012-05-07 02:19 pm (UTC)

I'm surprised you haven't, because it's gotten a lot of attention in mainstream media as "mommy porn" (apparently a lot of middle aged housewives really like it, which isn't surprising since that's the same demographic for Harlequin Presents).

It definitely is getting the Twilight treatment, with the added "We don't do that!" from the kink community.

The thing that concerns me a lot is that many women have read the book and commented that they want to try things in it. And for the most part, when it comes to the toys and blindfolding and stuff, that's not really dangerous, but I worry that it would lead someone to get into a D/s relationship with someone who is not trustworthy and takes advantage of them, because they read Fifty Shades and thus think it's okay.

And the difference between Fifty Shades and real life is that Fifty Shades is a fantasy. It's a control fantasy, and that's fine, but so many people are unaware of kink to begin with that they have no idea that it's fantasy.

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