James has committed no crime in writing about such a relationship her only sin is glamorizing and falsifying it. As for me, I can handle whipping, I can handle tears, I can handle bruises, and I can handle pain, but what I can't tolerate, is the disgustingly unrealistic dynamic between Christian as a Domme and Ana as a sub. The point is, if you can't stand the idea of pain for pleasure, you shouldn't be complaining about the "unhealthy relationship" in the first place. I've seen many D/s relationships (in real life and in other books) that are way more tasteful than in Christian and Anastasia, but I won't divulge because this isn't a lesson about BDSM. The BDSM lifestyle has nothing to do with domestic abuse or inequality between partners in a sense, it's power play-roleplaying for pleasure, and is perfectly sane and perfectly safe. This book isn't evil because of its portrayal of an "unhealthy relationship," which is what I'm hearing from a lot of reviewers, or at least the conservative ones. Take it from me, who's read dirtier, sexier, filthier, and way more taboo than this. is wrong with you? Pornographic writing and a list of submissive rules/toys do NOT equate to erotica. To those who haven't been disappointed, or have even been ridiculously enchanted by James's series: what. It has explicit sex scenes and breaks readers into the world of sex toys and equipment, yes (for those of us who never knew what a Cat o' Nine Tails or kegel balls were-psh, amateurs)-but if this is what people are being introduced to as "erotica," no wonder they've been severely disappointed. Fifty Shades of Grey is hardly BDSM literature in fact, it's hardly erotic literature.
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I think I need to clear something up, before I begin. E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their West Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London. The third installment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People's Choice Award for Drama in 2018. She was a producer on each of the three Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. Darker was long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS's The Great American Read (2018). Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide.Į L James has been recognized as one of Time magazine's "Most Influential People in the World" and Publishers Weekly's "Person of the Year." Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 133 consecutive weeks.
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She followed with the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Mister in 2019. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian's point of view. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl.