For my own part, I wrote in the scene from The Lady Eve after Barbara Stanwyck runs away from the escaped snake and cuddles Henry Fonda in her stateroom.  It’s a tight closeup of their faces, and they’re neither kissing nor even really facing each other, but you can tell her words and voice and intoxicating scent are having quite an effect on the poor fella who’s been “up the Amazon” for a couple years.  Tentpole just out of frame!  The sexiest sexless scene in Hollywood history, you ask me.

And no, I’m not 86 years old.  I’m not quite half that.  And I like nudity and raunch as much as the next degenerate.  But Secretary?  People find that movie sexy?  And not just disturbing?

Everyone I’ve spoken to in the BDSM scene is scathing of it as being a toxic representation of actual BDSM, and they usually go on to note that it is also bad porn.

The only time I heard about this book was when people started making fun of it online. I think it was Gilbert Godfrey’s reading of it in a mock commercial on Youtube which led to my first hearing the name. After that, I figured it was some sort of romantic porn book and I didn’t have much time for it.

I supposed I was right? As to the review of it: it didn’t make any sense to me because I literally know nothing about the story, the characters, the plot, or anything other than the name of the book, and that it’s basically trashy porn.

Is there anything else I should learn from it? I’m asking seriously because, at times, one can feel a little isolated all the way over here outside of the borders of the U.S.A.

Successful porn movies come out all the time. When it’s targeted towards male viewers, it’s not news because society expects that of men. The buzz about this “50 Shades of Grey” has to with the fact that it’s women that are getting off, and they’re not  hiding the fact they’re consuming erotica for no other reason than to get off. It’s disrupting gender expectations. That’s really all there is to it.

It’s literally a Twilight fanfic gone wrong

Twilight fanfic gone right has Edward and Jacob in a BDSM relationship.

It was during moments like that when I wished I knew Ana in real life, simply for of the amount of fun that could be had fucking with her. 

“Ana, you don’t understand. It’s so much worse than that. A concealed weapons permit means she can buy a concealed weapon. Concealed weapons are….invisble.”

You’re just seeing legions of Twitards acting out all their sexual frustration in spinoff porn.

It is worth bearing in mind that in fantasy, appealing things tend to get turned up to 11 and unappealing things edited out. I don’t think the women getting off on it are really seeking out this kind of abusive relationship, and I don’t think this (from the review)

“Any woman raving about this book is participating in some of the most blatant misogyny I’ve ever witnessed, cementing in some peoples’ minds the idea that women enjoy being debased, abused, and controlled.”

…is entirely fair.

On the other hand, there probably is better kink available.

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So, yeah.  Popular with the barely literate explains a few things.