The curious kinky person’s guide to Fifty Shades of Grey, Chapter 20
Generally, we’ve been criticizing Fifty Shades of Grey on the grounds that it might be harmful to the heterosexual women who read it and develop unrealistic or dangerous expectations of what a BDSM...
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Ana wakes up with Christian gone again. She meets his housekeeper, Mrs. Jones, and goes into another jealous snit over nothing. Why does Christian only have attractive blondes working for him? And a...
View ArticleThe curious kinky person’s guide to Fifty Shades of Grey, chapter 22
Ana continues to show her emotional maturity by teasing Christian via email, on the theory that an airplane in flight is one place where even Christian Grey can’t get to her. Her main objection to...
View ArticleThe curious kinky person’s guide to Fifty Shades of Grey, chapter 23, part 1
I have neglected to mention Christian’s stalker tendencies to my mom. I see him. My heart leaps, beginning a juddering thumping beat as he makes his way toward us. He’s really here – for me. Yes, he’s...
View ArticleThe curious kinky person’s guide to Fifty Shades of Grey, chapter 23, part 2
I started this project to critique Fifty Shades of Grey, and instead I end up trying to diagnose it. What is this book? And why is it so unexpectedly popular? As Genderfight on tumblr observes in...
View ArticleThe curious kinky person’s guide to Fifty Shades of Grey, chapter 24
Ana has a dream about Christian in a cage, offering her a phallic strawberry. The real Christian wakes her up. She gets dressed, including borrowing a pair of his underwear (identified by brand name,...
View ArticleThe curious kinky person’s guide to Fifty Shades of Grey, Chapter 25
On her way back to Seattle, travelling separately from Christian, Ana thinks about how she’s managed to render the steel-hard man downright squishy. What does Christian know of love? Seems he didn’t...
View ArticleThe curious kinky person’s guide to Fifty Shades of Grey, Chapter 26, part 1
A digression, which will tie into the peculiar relationship dynamic at the heart of Fifty Shades. The CW network is reviving the old Beauty and the Beast show, which originally starred Linda Hamilton...
View ArticleThe curious kinky person’s guide to Fifty Shades of Grey, Chapter 26, part 2
BDSM is about rules, which are there to regulate the interaction so that all parties involve benefit. Christian presented Ana with a contract, but that has been completely abandoned by now. Christian...
View ArticleThe curious kinky person’s guide to Fifty Shades of Grey: conclusion
I didn’t have high expectations of this book when I started. If anything, now that I’ve read it, my low expectations of Fifty Shades of Grey were too high. At the most basic level, it is just a poor...
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