The AdC Scratching Post

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It seems to come down to name calling and selling news. Those who have a sqeaky clean opinion of themselves and would have others do things exactly thier way or suffer the consequences of thier rightous wrath resort to labeling others interests. That way real problems can be ignored. It is not even an attack on true porn, just a control issue made up by a few authors in order to sell thier somewhat sanitized stories as they put down other authors to bump them out of sales. The only true clean romance is two kindergardeners holding hands telling each other what they will be when they grow up while they share thier lunch.

Arggh, mommy porn. It seems like if it's an industry mostly by women for women, it has to be belittled. I learned at a young age that I was supposed to be ashamed of reading romance-- kids in my classes in high school would take my book from me and read "good parts" to the class, painfully embarrassing if you're 15 and shy. It took me a long time to stop being ashamed. I haven't read 50 Shades of Grey yet either, but I will at some point, if for no other reason than to see what the fuss is all about!

I don't care for erotica novels but I don't think I would categorize it as porn. they are blowing it all out of proportion. I remember my mom hiding the romance books she read. Is that what's going to happen now. People are going to assume its all porn? Reading romance shouldn't be shameful. Honestly, I'm surprised more readers haven't commented about this blog. Their making romance novels dirty.

I think the news/media has overdramatized it. Isn't it becoming a movie? Drum up sales and make a big deal about it.

I often wonder if a bit of the controversy is not stirred up and kept simmering by a batch of publicists and advertising people. It would actually make sense were it true. I actually read the entire trilogy. The first book out of curiosity, and the others to see how it turned out. This series was a 3 book romance. The sexual stuff, depending on your point of view, did include bondage and more. Not my cup of tea, but tea comes in different flavors for a reason. These books were a romance between two people, Grey the male lead was a damaged man beginning in early childhood. The female lead was young and exploring, they fell in love, dealt with real life difficulties, worked it out, etc. in short, pretty much the theme of the bulk of romance novels. What you don't hear in all this overblown publicity is that the story (and there is one) is the romance, not the sex. The story does go into why the sexual proclivities were what they were, but the sex was not the point of these books. That was all public controversy and creative publicity. It is a shame that the story was lost in all the BS, but if people could not judge each other and work real hard not to mind their own business, many would not have a hobby at all. While it was a good story, the books were not really well written, a ton of editing issues and several big inconsistencies. That being said, still worth reading, out in public, where you want. In America we get to read what we wish and un theory do not have to answer to anyone, or explain why we choose to read what we read. "Mommy porn"??? Ridiculous terminology.

Gidget, I have spoken with several people who have read the books and they pretty much said the same exact things you did. A great PR and great advertising will get you far in this world. I was told once you file through all the hoopla and propaganda, it was a good story.

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