Fifty Shades of Grey

Began reading this to see what all the fuss was about. More worrisome than the fact that someone felt compelled to write these books and that they found a publisher is the fact that there are people who who enjoy reading them and express interest in their subject matter. The writings of the Marquis de Sade have long been considered pornographic and virtually unreadable and although I resist the practice of censorship and book bannings I find little literary merit in these books. Although I may be aware that there are people who derive perverted sexual pleasure from bondage and sadomasochism I have better things to do with my time than read about them. Whether or not the object of these practices consents to domination it still smacks of assault on another fellow human and sexual abuse.