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'50 Shades of Grey' & BDSM

***Spoiler alert. I will be discussing plot points and details of the book in this post. If you do not want to read them, please read other posts in my blog :)*** So, I just finished E.L. James' 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' the book that has taken women of most ages by storm and is commonly being referred to as 'mommy porn.' Why is this? Because at first glance, it may appear to be a typical romance novel with the targeted audience being middle-aged stay-at-home-mothers in need of a fantasy, but a closer look shows that this is a book filled with chains and floggers and explicit sexual scenes. And when I say explicit...I mean explicit. The book is told through the voice of 21 year old Anastasia Steele, who follows her fate to interview 27 year old (I think this was his age?) CEO of his own company, Christian Grey, when her roommate becomes too sick to do it herself. She is immediately taken aback by his dashingly good looks, and is entranced by him. In the intervi