A benefit from 50 Shades?

[PennLady]

Found this, and while I expect the thread to careen of the rails quickly, I thought I'd put it out there.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...and-wellness/2012/05/21/gIQAGx4zfU_story.html

This gist of this is that setting the (any) literary merit of the 50 Shades trilogy aside, it's useful because it gets people talking about sex.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Yes.

 

[lance gt]

I expressed much the same thoughts when it was first discussed. While others slammed it for the quality and such, I saw it as a door opening for all the writers of that genre, to get accepted into mainstream.

 

[lovecraft68]

It should, look what Twilight did for the "new wave" Vampires.

 

[lance gt]

The worst thing is having to be compared to it at the start, as it will be the benchmark to beat, until someone takes that spot.

 

[lovecraft68]

The worst thing is having to be compared to it at the start, as it will be the benchmark to beat, until someone takes that spot.

I think you're right.

Ironic that something that even the author pretty much admits is fanfic, will end up having other stories compared to it as a "rip off"

My hopes is that someone who does not like how this portrays certain things, steps up with the book that "sets it straight" and becomes the new benchmark.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Hopefully some of these women will be interested enough to find us.

 

[Handley_Page]

Found this, and while I expect the thread to careen of the rails quickly, I thought I'd put it out there.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...and-wellness/2012/05/21/gIQAGx4zfU_story.html

This gist of this is that setting the (any) literary merit of the 50 Shades trilogy aside, it's useful because it gets people talking about sex.

As I understand it, there seem to be a few folks for whom discussing sex is anathema (well, until marriage, anyway). The piece could help dispel some of that fog.
[my correspondent intimated that there are those who feel that women should be barefoot and secured in the kitchen, rather than being able to DO things in the wider community.]

 

[THROBBS]

(pretty sure that was what I said in the previous thread.)
This must be a "fanfic" thread!