Fifty Shades of Grey – introducing BDSM to the masses
In 2011, the BDSM erotic novel “Fifty Shades Of Grey” came onto the scene and took over the lives of numerous people who just had to read it. It reintroduced the shady topic of using bondage. Vast amounts of people don’t thoroughly fully grasp the need for others to engage in this sort of thing and reading the novel (to these people) was a means to find out why.
What exactly is BDSM? It is bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism. It is a type of sexual; expression which requires the total submission of one individual who agrees to fantasy role-play, the making use of restraints and intense sensory stimulation. This process includes a lot of activities and is a diverse subculture which enables the forming of personal relationships.
In a nutshell bondage is the physical use of locks, straps, chains or even a simple rope to physically restrain your partner. The discipline is to do all that within the rules that are established. Sadism refers to those people who enjoy giving sexual favors along with psychological and physical pain. The masochist is the opposite of this. In “Fifty Shades Of Grey” the male character Grey if the dominant sadist while Anastasia is the submissive participant (or at least trying to be).
Typically BDSM relationships involve persons who have complementary yet not necessarily equal roles. As such before anything is done it is essential that both people are in full agreement with precisely what is to take place. There are those who delight in being controlled and those are referred to as submissives or bottoms. Those who don’t mind playing both roles are referred to as switches and those who prefer to be in control are referred to as dominant or top.
With “Fifty Shades Of Grey” persons get an insight into that world. It sheds light on the fact that there are rules to this love play and it is not just the infliction of pain for the sake of it. A common belief is that the submissives in BDSM relationships are mindless drones that will do anything to get some love no matter how perverse. That is not the case.
The thing that happens is that most novels tend to be fashioned that way to please the reader, as that is what they are expecting from it.
A look at “Fifty Shades Of Grey” can show you that Anastasia is a woman who is able to process her own thoughts and feelings and is hindered by her own inhibitions and lack of sexual experiences.
Chris Watson is an avid reader of literary trash and proud of his guilty pleasures. He has a site dedicated to Fifty Shades of Grey at www.fiftyshadesofgreystore.org
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