Fifty Shades Of Rubbish..?

Somebody obviously thought so, or did they just read this copy to the death?

In one 11-day holiday this year, I counted 17 different women reading this book (and that's just the hard copy versions without counting the kindle editions that you can't see).

Something doesn't sound right about it though...

Imagine this scenario: A man is on his lunch break at work reading this book:

"what are you reading Dave?" says an interested workmate.
"Oh" says Dave, "It's a book about an older man with serious anxiety/maternal separation issues who manages to find a much younger women and get her to submit to a lot of extreme sexual activity and sub/dom practices"
"Oh right, OK then" says the now slightly concerned workmate.
"Oh yes" says Dave, "It's very good, and she becomes very 'liberated' in the process"....

What concerns me is the inequality of what is now acceptable for women & not men and also the power of mass retail marketing.

Had this book not been branded as "mummy porn" by the media, anybody caught reading it would surely have been branded as a deviant/weirdo etc...? Particularly if that person was a man!