‘50 Shades’ gives Sugar Daddy websites, bondage a boost
After reading the Wikipedia entry, I assume this knot can be used for more than a dapper suit.
Literature has often changed society.
Tracts by Thomas Paine helped rile up pre-Americans seeking government independence while Karl Marx riled up those seeking government dependence.
“50 Shades of Grey” by British author E. L. James is nothing like those books, but the erotic tome has boosted traffic at “Sugar Daddy” dating sites, reports Business Insider.
I’ve never read “50 Shades of Grey,” but trust a co-worker, who says she wanted to “stab her eyes out” while reading it with her book club.
A reader of this blog has a higher opinion of the book, saying “The 3-book series begins with Anastasia Steele, a young woman, meeting and falling for millionaire Christian Grey, a gorgeous man with a dark past who draws her into his world of BDSM.”
Whatever you think of the novel, it’s certainly getting people’s attention. “50 Shades” has sold 20 million copies and surpassed “Harry Potter & The Chamber Pot of Smelly Secrets” as the fastest-selling paperback of all time.
According to Brandon Wade, the millionaire founder of SeekingArrangement.com, a dating site for wealthy men that “want to date the best” and women that want help “mentally, emotionally and financially,” the novel has boosted business and sparked an apparent interest in bondage.
Wade says 186,000 female members of the site are actively seeking a “Christian Grey” type arrangement.
The businessman, an alleged virgin himself when he attended MIT, spills some dirt on his customers:
- 79 percent of female members found the idea of succumbing to a ‘dominant’ male like Grey a turnon
- 90 percent of male members said they found the idea of woman being a ’submissive’ like Steele exciting
- 43 percent said they were more likely to use handcuffs in sexual role play
- 47 percent wanted to experiment with blindfolds and other bondage gear
Hmmmm … “Of Human Bondage” says nothing like that.
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31 comments Add your comment
yeah
July 5th, 2012
4:08 pm
Not really a humor blog…but ok.
Samantha
July 5th, 2012
4:11 pm
@Fulton – Are you under the delusion that all women rolled off the assembly line with identical programming?
@Mathis – Why are you even commenting on a book you haven’t even read? – The book has elements of BDSM but is hardly about BDSM and frankly I think it does the BDSM community harm by the way it paints the Dominant character as an emotionally handicapped ‘child’ and his interest in BDSM as a coping mechanism for it. – BDSM is NOT abusive and the vast majority of people that engage in these activities do so in sane loving and consensual relationships. There may be illusion of force or an illusion of degredation but it is far more about bringing pleasure to the “victim” by acting out ‘taboo fantasies’. I honestly don’t think the books are “great literature” and it is certainly not an instruction manual for a healthy BDSM relationship; Honestly I think the book is more on par with a Disney Princess fantasy than an adult romance novel. The character development was very light and the author seriously overdid the repetitive references to “rolling her eyes” and “biting her lips” to the point of annoyance. – Glad I read them but honestly I don’t understand the popularity.
Teresa
July 5th, 2012
4:18 pm
I have read all three a few times. I enjoyed the books tremendously. I think the BDSM is loosley talked about and referred to but it is not the basis of the story. It is a story of an abused child, whose mother was no mother to him at all.. He took a lot of rage with him as he grew up. he acquired an outlet for it as a teenager, thought that is what he was..until he met Ana, she showed him another way….A love story with some really juicy parts… No different than a lot of Romance novels out there without the kinky stuff…. I was not offended, was a nice change in the book department…. Great Literature, no… but a nice change of reading…
CobbGOPer
July 5th, 2012
5:13 pm
Women are always looking for sugar daddies. Most of them anyway. The sad part is they’re not even doing it consciously. But they’re always on the lookout for someone that will provide all the money so they can do nothing but procreate.
My attempt at a short description.
July 5th, 2012
5:28 pm
I’ll attempt… It’s about two people at the opposite ends of the spectrum sexually and how they make their way to the middle and live happily ever after sexually and intellectually! She is, by no means submissive, in the sense that everyone is trying to make it sound…like a mindless slave. He actually is a slave to her in his dominant way…she has all the power!
SM
July 5th, 2012
5:42 pm
For crying out loud, just go watch some skin flicks… sheesh!
KS
July 6th, 2012
10:44 am
midtownATL – No, I am not an idiot and I do not own a dog. If I did I, would not kick it in the head or anywhere else for that matter. I understood that Mr. Mathis did not read the book – that was my point. Hope you have a great a day!
favre4rockett
July 6th, 2012
3:27 pm
I agree as well with Seriously.. Do not talk about the book if you have not read it.. There is a lot more going on then just sex and “SUBS/DOMS” it is an actual love story that also teaches you to forgive and move on.. It was absorbing to read and could not put it down..
z.phgjar
July 7th, 2012
4:34 pm
Who cares! People are scared of a topic, a “taboo” that most likely they want to try. If not, who cares, just let people be who they are and enjoy a piece if writing.
gail
July 8th, 2012
5:12 am
i was wondering the same ting because i didn’t read that in the book i had….he must have a different book altogether…..