The cultural impact of this trilogy has just started to surface.  Movie, product lines, music CDs.   In essence it is a love story, Harlequin Romance meets kinky sex.  Honestly that doesn't give you the range of nuanced and in depth material EL James has packed into her books.  I mean let's be serious I know the world of sexuality and I write books.  This was a LOL highly enjoyable read for me, and one almost didn't do.  I thought 'Oh I can avoid reading it, nope couldn't happen.  I have two projects and I need to KNOW what's in these books.  Devotees expect it.   What vanilla can learn from kink.  What the BDSM world really is like.  Toys etc.

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