it's been 5 months since my last post?! sorry about that. life gets away from you so easily, doesn't it?
anyway...i hope everyone has been having some awesome sexin' in my absence. mine, since you asked, is getting back on track after a looooong baby-induced dry spell.
but, hark! there is all kinds of sex in the news and we should be
talking about it even if my land is in drought doesn't mean it's not
growing season elsewhere. (and for all concerned parties, my marriage is
fine, we're just still adjusting to life with baby and i'm still
getting on the pregnancy/breast feeding hormone roller coaster that
encourages you to get on...but not to get off. :)
get it? see how i did
that? :)
anyway....enough about me and my (woeful lack of) sex life! let's talk about yours!!
it seems that the whole country is knockin' da boots right now, all
thanks to a little series of books called "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L
James.
i have not read it, but from what i understand, it's a little love story
about a rich business tycoon who is into S & M (sadomasochism) and whose current
'partner' is a young, virginal student or some such. there is sex scene
after sex scene, many involving rather forceful/violent sex and there is
a contract between them that apparently covers all that they can/can't
do together, safe words, etc?
and i have a lot of female friends who have read this erotic fiction and are getting all
frothy at the mouth over it. there are those who tell
tales about reading it on the kindle while standing in line at the
grocery store and just PRAYING no one is reading over their shoulders or
watching them sweat...
*please watch this SNL fake commercial on the same subject*
i haven't read it and don't think i will, for two reasons. 1- i don't
want to encourage myself fantasizing about violent sex. i don't like
that small part of me that thinks being thrown around is hot. i think
it's a sexist and potentially catastrophic way that the porn industry
has influenced what we think normal sex should be like. and 2- i've
heard it's really bad writing. not much more scintillating or clever
than the other danielle-steel-milky-white-bosom garbage out there.
ON THE OTHER HAND...i know of many marriages that have been positively
influenced (read: they are shagging like especially horny bunnies) by the wife reading
these books. and that's a great thing! and a quick wikipedia glance at
the author's life says she's been married for over 20 years...so, maybe a
little S & M fantasy doesn't hurt anything. (provided you're being
safe and both partners are entirely on board and you don't become too
dependent on the role playing, etc, etc).
whatcha think? has anyone out there actually read the books? am i just
talking out of my arse, since all i'm going by is hearsay?
thoughts?
