"Fifty Shades of Grey"

[seela]

They're talking about 50 Shades in the morning show of the Finland's national broadcasting company. It hasn't even been published in Finnish yet, still they're talking about it. Apparently the English version is at the moment sold out in the entire country.

 

[cruzn2u2]

Spicing up your love life

I have a very straight lover when I met her. She never met anyone that beyond missionary position sex. Since she read the books she has really blossom. She loves being controlled or being the controller. What has been your experience with your lover?

 

[BiBunny]

Oh. My. God.

*Dead*

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Oh. My. God.

*Dead*

I think I'd like to hear Stewie read it.

Yes. That would be delicious.

 

[BiBunny]

I think I'd like to hear Stewie read it.

Yes. That would be delicious.

Yes, it would.

 

[Kurokami]

Oh. My. God.

*Dead*

Thank you. Thank you so goddamn much.

 

[shy slave]

A member of staff has starting reading this in their break time.

I had failed to notice as I never take a break in the staff room.

She opted to tell me during a supervision meeting - so not exactly the right time.

Was surprised that I was slightly disgusted by her actions and by her opting to tell me.

If a man chose to read penthouse in his break it would be frowned upon as porn, yet she can read mummy porn and brag about it.

Have to admit when she obviously wanted to talk about it I had to say I had no interest at all.

Her talking made me feel grubby and unclean.

Now the gossip at work is that I am a prude and wouldn't know kink if I fell over it.

That, at least, amuses me.

 

[intothewoods]

A member of staff has starting reading this in their break time.

I had failed to notice as I never take a break in the staff room.

She opted to tell me during a supervision meeting - so not exactly the right time.

Was surprised that I was slightly disgusted by her actions and by her opting to tell me.

If a man chose to read penthouse in his break it would be frowned upon as porn, yet she can read mummy porn and brag about it.

Have to admit when she obviously wanted to talk about it I had to say I had no interest at all.

Her talking made me feel grubby and unclean.

Now the gossip at work is that I am a prude and wouldn't know kink if I fell over it.

That, at least, amuses me.

Gahhhh - I know we're all lame but that's so lame.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Nice little double standard your workplace has going!

And se-- that's another problem with calling it "mommy porn." it makes it look like there's no porn in it.

 

[Etoile]

Wait, there is actually porn in 50 Shades of Gray? I thought it was just all softcore romance novel stuff.

At this point I feel like I should read it just to know what everybody is all ate up about. Even though I think I'll find it tragically vanilla...

 

[Stella_Omega]

Wait, there is actually porn in 50 Shades of Gray? I thought it was just all softcore romance novel stuff.

At this point I feel like I should read it just to know what everybody is all ate up about. Even though I think I'll find it tragically vanilla...

Lots of sex scenes. A few of them include a little bit of impact play.

 

[intothewoods]

Nice little double standard your workplace has going!

And se-- that's another problem with calling it "mommy porn." it makes it look like there's no porn in it.

I don't know -- either every playgroup mom (and I am one) just got sexually liberated or there is a whole new level of oversharing going on that is a bit weird.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yeah, so everyone on lit knows I loathe this thing.

But I vent here in r/l I kind of keep it to myself.

Lost it two nights ago. Had a few and we're out to dinner with a few people. They're talking about and talking about it.

How hot Gray is, what a bad boy, how they now know about BDSM.

So I open my big mouth and start telling a story. I'm winging it. Starting out discussing about how I'm waiting for my pet. The kind of mood I'm in the toys I've laid and how I'm going to use them.

I talk about the anticipation the rush of inflicting punishment as well as the look in the eye of my pet as I dole it out.

yeah, it went over well. The wife was caught between being mortified and laughing her ass off. The guys were staring at me like I ws nuts and one of the women looked like she wanted to leave.

The best part was the woman who I had been making eye contact with the entire time. She was looking a little nervous and I was willing to bet wet.

Her loser husband then said that wasn't bad and have I ever thought about writing?

I think I am going to do this from now on until I get arrested.

 

[Netzach]

A member of staff has starting reading this in their break time.

I had failed to notice as I never take a break in the staff room.

She opted to tell me during a supervision meeting - so not exactly the right time.

Was surprised that I was slightly disgusted by her actions and by her opting to tell me.

If a man chose to read penthouse in his break it would be frowned upon as porn, yet she can read mummy porn and brag about it.

Have to admit when she obviously wanted to talk about it I had to say I had no interest at all.

Her talking made me feel grubby and unclean.

Now the gossip at work is that I am a prude and wouldn't know kink if I fell over it.

That, at least, amuses me.

This was how I navigated a job last time I worked for someone else. They had no idea I was a session dominatrix while thinking I was the most sexually uptight person on the sales floor because I would not join in the TMI stuff at all. Ever.

 

[desertslave]

Yeah, so everyone on lit knows I loathe this thing.

But I vent here in r/l I kind of keep it to myself.

Lost it two nights ago. Had a few and we're out to dinner with a few people. They're talking about and talking about it.

How hot Gray is, what a bad boy, how they now know about BDSM.

So I open my big mouth and start telling a story. I'm winging it. Starting out discussing about how I'm waiting for my pet. The kind of mood I'm in the toys I've laid and how I'm going to use them.

I talk about the anticipation the rush of inflicting punishment as well as the look in the eye of my pet as I dole it out.

yeah, it went over well. The wife was caught between being mortified and laughing her ass off. The guys were staring at me like I ws nuts and one of the women looked like she wanted to leave.

The best part was the woman who I had been making eye contact with the entire time. She was looking a little nervous and I was willing to bet wet.

Her loser husband then said that wasn't bad and have I ever thought about writing?

I think I am going to do this from now on until I get arrested.

Because I don't "know" these things...does your wife play and does she know you write here? Because of course that adds to the richness of the story.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I don't know -- either every playgroup mom (and I am one) just got sexually liberated or there is a whole new level of oversharing going on that is a bit weird.

How about you, Ms Playground mom, are you suddenly sexually liberated?

Or did you just not talk about it at the playground for all of those reasons why?

I would say there's some sharing that wasn't happening before. The book has been catalyst for that, I'll give it that. I don't know if it's oversharing or not, that's pretty subjective.

 

[intothewoods]

This was how I navigated a job last time I worked for someone else. They had no idea I was a session dominatrix while thinking I was the most sexually uptight person on the sales floor because I would not join in the TMI stuff at all. Ever.

People always think I'm an uptight square because I kind of am except when I'm not. I feel sort of guilty about it but I suppose I should be psyched that I'm so good at maintaining my super hero secret identity.

 

[intothewoods]

How about you, Ms Playground mom, are you suddenly sexually liberated?

Or did you just not talk about it at the playground for all of those reasons why?

I would say there's some sharing that wasn't happening before. The book has been catalyst for that, I'll give it that. I don't know if it's oversharing or not, that's pretty subjective.

Not so suddenly. I didn't and don't talk about it at the playground, but I will talk about it if we go out for drinks. I mean, if we're friends at that level. But I would never have talked about that stuff at work (that's strategic more than prudish) and I don't open with it in a casual setting. That's what I find odd -- it's like hey, there's sale at Baby Gap this week and have you read Chapter 10 yet? *


*Joke - no one talks about sales at Baby Gap!

 

[desertslave]

People always think I'm an uptight square because I kind of am except when I'm not. I feel sort of guilty about it but I suppose I should be psyched that I'm so good at maintaining my super hero secret identity.

I've been trying to shake that "good girl" thing since I was a teenager. I don't feel wholesome, dammit, why don't I look it? Apparently I've got a Dorian Gray (not Grey) thing going on. First Sir called it the fresh snow syndrome...looking all pure and untouched and so tempting to be the first to walk through it, etc. Huh!

The look on some of my friends' faces when I told them I make glass dildos was priceless!

 

[Stella_Omega]

I think they are sharing because they can. Because there's this perception that "everyone is talking about that book" so it's okay if they do too.

And I think they will talk about the book as a substitute for talking about themselves. "Did you read Chapter ten?" is safer than; "I slap my pussy with a wooden spoon when I masturbate these days."

That's how tired taking care of a kid can make you, yanno? You need the release, and your nerve endings won't fire off for you anymore. And-- wouldnt it be better for your psyche, to know that you're not the only one that's dead between the legs? But that would be oversharing. So, Chapter ten.

(By the way it DOES come back. It's mostly just fatigue, I promise)

 

[intothewoods]

I think they are sharing because they can. Because there's this perception that "everyone is talking about that book" so it's okay if they do too.

And I think they will talk about the book as a substitute for talking about themselves. "Did you read Chapter ten?" is safer than; "I slap my pussy with a wooden spoon when I masturbate these days."

That's how tired taking care of a kid can make you, yanno? You need the release, and your nerve endings won't fire off for you anymore. And-- wouldnt it be better for your psyche, to know that you're not the only one that's dead between the legs? But that would be oversharing. So, Chapter ten.

(By the way it DOES come back. It's mostly just fatigue, I promise)

But you know -- and I know I keep going on about this but I have not figured out why this is bugging me -- it used to be all about how no one wants sex and ohh won't my husband leave me alone already! Remember that Ayelet Waldman piece where she was all I'm the only one in the mom's group who is getting any? I mean, p.s. she's fucking Michael Chabon so maybe that helps. This seems to me one of those new twists on the supermom thing -- I'm hip, I cook amazing vegan cupcakes from Pinterest and I like to be tied up too!

Though to be fair my friends are reading it to be up on pop culture.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Well, I know from my own experience that having my unique secret perv superpower really helped prop me when I was thrown into groups of moms with whom I had absolutely zero connection beyond the kids. And I think I would have been irritated to find that my power suddenly wasn't unique.

And I know, I spent long years working this shit out for myself. And if suddenly it's a matter of buying a bondage kit and there's no self interrogation, no depth, no pathos godammit, it's all happy barbie picnic time-- Yeah, I hate that. How DARE they!

I have that problem with Martha Fucking Stewart, who all she had to do was hire people to make all those crafts and she's the expert and raking in the bucks-- I workd those same crafts out myself because I had no money to buy pretty things. So fuck her.

 

[intothewoods]

Well, I know from my own experience that having my unique secret perv superpower really helped prop me when I was thrown into groups of moms with whom I had absolutely zero connection beyond the kids. And I think I would have been irritated to find that my power suddenly wasn't unique.

And I know, I spent long years working this shit out for myself. And if suddenly it's a matter of buying a bondage kit and there's no self interrogation, no depth, no pathos godammit, it's all happy barbie picnic time-- Yeah, I hate that. How DARE they!

I have that problem with Martha Fucking Stewart, who all she had to do was hire people to make all those crafts and she's the expert and raking in the bucks-- I workd those same crafts out myself because I had no money to buy pretty things. So fuck her.

I am fully prepared to accept that that is the reason for my annoyance. Fully. Maybe that's all it is.

And hey, it makes my pathos all relevant now. I can write about it. I will be like a beacon for these poor, hot-and-bothered mamas.

And like I said earlier in this thread or another, fuck my ex now. What could he hold over me? She's kinky. And???? Bitch please.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I am fully prepared to accept that that is the reason for my annoyance. Fully. Maybe that's all it is.

Actually, I think it's kind of legit. At least for yourself, not them. I think that, for myself, my irritation is legit.

And hey, it makes my pathos all relevant now. I can write about it. I will be like a beacon for these poor, hot-and-bothered mamas.

And like I said earlier in this thread or another, fuck my ex now. What could he hold over me? She's kinky. And???? Bitch please.

Could you write Romance Porn? That would be awesome, because the only reason this is getting so much press is that there's so little of it out there.

I can't.

 

[intothewoods]

Per Netz's post in the wank fodder (I think) thread -- there are so many horny housewives out there looking for a Dom. I was one once too. So though it seems on the outside that this is the funny, tee hee, hip thing, I guess everyone has been sexually unsatisfied and sick of it.

And Netz said too recently (I swear I remember other people's posts too ) everyone wants to be ravished. Or most of us. And I guess that's true. Life is hard.

Oh, and I just remembered the thing that always annoys me. When I discover I am a total cliche. So it's not that everyone else hasn't suffered or something, it's that I hate that it always comes back to me being right smack in my demographic.

However, in conclusion, I was slightly ahead of the curve and it is that I will hold onto!