Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Fifty Shades of BS/reply (9)

I have a good friend in the BDSM community who actually is trying to get her kinky female/female book published, and she's LIVID that this got a deal and she's struggling. She's been trying for years and I've read her work, and even just as a book it's interesting. But 50 Shades of Grey got published, depicted BDSM REALLY BADLY, made the community pretty mad, and she still can't get a deal? There's very little respect that goes into the publishing of these books; 50SoG made it onto shelves because it's mommy porn that shocks and excites people who are shocked and excited by the word 'penis' in literature. It's just as much escapist lit for poor frustrated women with an Exciting Forbidden Lust Object (anything other than consensual sex for purpose of making babies, under the covers, in the dark, is sinful and wicked for women to think of you see) as Twilight was.

Which isn't surprising because it's bad Twilight AU smut with the names shaved off. Which is an insult to fanfiction that doesn't happen to suck, really, because it makes everything look even worse than normal. :|