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Fifty Shades of Grey - Are you reading/read it?

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Well, gorgeously yours, I have strayed into the world of BDSM without a submissive bone in my body and did really badly at being submissive! To the point where I ended up sat with the group of dominants and switches who were testing out different equipment on each other to see what it would feel like on their submissives. It was done in such a way as it was like comparing different brands of chocolate for the taste. Quite a surreal experience but one that I really enjoyed. I think you have to be in the right head space to be able to take it seriously.
Due to formative experiences in my first sexual relationship which was BDSM and controlling (me sub, him dom) aged 18, which actually turned abusive and violent beyond all consent, I have issues with relinquishing control to a male telling me what to do sexually unless I deeply trust and love them. When we've tried it in the past in a wonderful relationship I've still ended up being the one in charge in spite of feeling like I could trust him with my life. It is something I have been interested in but I just don't think I have the will to go back to that kind of mindset. Then, from the people I've met in the BDSM scene, I encountered too many people who I thought were jumped up arseholes claiming to be a 'dominant' just to make themselves feel better and beat the shit out of someone for the sake, because they could. I've seen it happen and lived it too which makes me deeply uncomfortable, not something I want to repeat.
I found parts of the first book very difficult to deal with because of these experiences and am really struggling to understand why a lot of my vanilla friends are cooing over Christian Grey with all his ways. Maybe I'm just too independant for my own good or it's that my fingers were metaphorically burned badly in my own experience at the hands of a Grey kind of character? Who knows. smile
LG. x
Just got the first two books from and friend and the pages aren't sticky, so I am not expecting much lol
Not read any of the thread so far as I dont want any spoilers, but will update you when I have read them :P
Pam xx
of BOREDOM!!
If you want the original try "The story of O", 50 shades is just an updated version of the classic
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Not reading it here, but Facebook is constantly telling me that there'll be a baby boom in nine months time because of it. rolleyes

Well if that's the case then we should all be eternally grateful to Grey's Author.
A baby boom is just what's required to help us recover from the GFC.
So... "Go forth and shag all you SH members - be a shining light of hope and have lots of unprotected sex" hump lol
I have listened to the audio books and have to agree that some words are overused and such as the emails have become tedious. Listening to two hours of sex can get boring too.
However what kept me going was, that I wanted to know if she becomes a sub and if she does, will he leave her.
I didn't like the part near the end but the end itself was rather good and I would like a book about the way he is thinking. smile
Plus, don't we women would love to meet a billionaire, who is sexy and knows our dress size and being generally devoted to us?
I know I would :) :) :)
MFL xxxxx
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So... "Go forth and shag all you SH members - be a shining light of hope and have lots of unprotected sex" hump lol

I like your thinking there. A call to arms! :thumbup:
:welcome: to the forums.
As he approached with those pasty white arms hanging out of his Gola vest, his smile told me it was benefit day and I knew my velour tracksuit would be hanging off the lamp shade tonight." "It was Dwayne's birthday. I was preparing his special tea of Findus Crispy Pancakes and Pot Noodle. I would let him take me any way he wanted tonight. His favourite position was what he called The Dogs of War. Where he took me from behind and played Call of Duty at the same time." "Our 6 week anniversary was approaching. This would be my longest relationship without becoming pregnant. I thought of this as he lay on top of me making love. His skinny arms straddled my head like breadsticks either side of an orange. As I rubbed his whiter than white back I imagined every mole I felt was spelling out Braille for I love you" "As I stood in line at the Job Centre thinking of reasons I couldn't work, a sweet smell drifted past my pig like nostrils. It was a mixture of weed, B.O and Lynx Africa. I turned around and there was Dwayne. Our eyes met and he was soon lifting me onto the wheelie bins behind the Iceland. He had tied up his Staffy to block the ally way so we wouldn't be disturbed. There was a tramp watching but it just added to the mystery. I knew it was love and my life would never be the same." "My mum had told me to leave Dwayne many times due to the violence but I knew he loved me as he always took his rings off before he hit me. Tonight though he was in a foul mood, I had fucked his tea up after failing to de-frost his prawn ring I had nicked from farm foods. He picked up the power lead from my kids mega drive and whipped it across my arse. It stung but I liked it. I shouted again again so he carried on. I thought my shell suit would rip into a million pieces. As I looked over my shoulder I saw his Weetabix toothed smile. He even had a semi on which rare as the crack normally played havoc with his erections.
Have just got up to chapter 9... if she utters " holy crap" one more time im going to burn the bloody thing....
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Have just got up to chapter 9... if she utters " holy crap" one more time im going to burn the bloody thing....

Ah... nothing like a good ol' fashioned book burning! :lol2:
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As he approached with those pasty white arms hanging out of his Gola vest, his smile told me it was benefit day and I knew my velour tracksuit would be hanging off the lamp shade tonight." "It was Dwayne's birthday. I was preparing his special tea of Findus Crispy Pancakes and Pot Noodle. I would let him take me any way he wanted tonight. His favourite position was what he called The Dogs of War. Where he took me from behind and played Call of Duty at the same time." "Our 6 week anniversary was approaching. This would be my longest relationship without becoming pregnant. I thought of this as he lay on top of me making love. His skinny arms straddled my head like breadsticks either side of an orange. As I rubbed his whiter than white back I imagined every mole I felt was spelling out Braille for I love you" "As I stood in line at the Job Centre thinking of reasons I couldn't work, a sweet smell drifted past my pig like nostrils. It was a mixture of weed, B.O and Lynx Africa. I turned around and there was Dwayne. Our eyes met and he was soon lifting me onto the wheelie bins behind the Iceland. He had tied up his Staffy to block the ally way so we wouldn't be disturbed. There was a tramp watching but it just added to the mystery. I knew it was love and my life would never be the same." "My mum had told me to leave Dwayne many times due to the violence but I knew he loved me as he always took his rings off before he hit me. Tonight though he was in a foul mood, I had fucked his tea up after failing to de-frost his prawn ring I had nicked from farm foods. He picked up the power lead from my kids mega drive and whipped it across my arse. It stung but I liked it. I shouted again again so he carried on. I thought my shell suit would rip into a million pieces. As I looked over my shoulder I saw his Weetabix toothed smile. He even had a semi on which rare as the crack normally played havoc with his erections.

the Jeremy kyle best selling novel fifty grams of green lol
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As he approached with those pasty white arms hanging out of his Gola vest, his smile told me it was benefit day and I knew my velour tracksuit would be hanging off the lamp shade tonight." "It was Dwayne's birthday. I was preparing his special tea of Findus Crispy Pancakes and Pot Noodle. I would let him take me any way he wanted tonight. His favourite position was what he called The Dogs of War. Where he took me from behind and played Call of Duty at the same time." "Our 6 week anniversary was approaching. This would be my longest relationship without becoming pregnant. I thought of this as he lay on top of me making love. His skinny arms straddled my head like breadsticks either side of an orange. As I rubbed his whiter than white back I imagined every mole I felt was spelling out Braille for I love you" "As I stood in line at the Job Centre thinking of reasons I couldn't work, a sweet smell drifted past my pig like nostrils. It was a mixture of weed, B.O and Lynx Africa. I turned around and there was Dwayne. Our eyes met and he was soon lifting me onto the wheelie bins behind the Iceland. He had tied up his Staffy to block the ally way so we wouldn't be disturbed. There was a tramp watching but it just added to the mystery. I knew it was love and my life would never be the same." "My mum had told me to leave Dwayne many times due to the violence but I knew he loved me as he always took his rings off before he hit me. Tonight though he was in a foul mood, I had fucked his tea up after failing to de-frost his prawn ring I had nicked from farm foods. He picked up the power lead from my kids mega drive and whipped it across my arse. It stung but I liked it. I shouted again again so he carried on. I thought my shell suit would rip into a million pieces. As I looked over my shoulder I saw his Weetabix toothed smile. He even had a semi on which rare as the crack normally played havoc with his erections.

the Jeremy kyle best selling novel fifty grams of green lol
Would have been funny if written in a better order. Its like reading a book backwards. One second tea is Pot noodle and crispy pancakes then next its a Prawn ring dunno
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As he approached with those pasty white arms hanging out of his Gola vest, his smile told me it was benefit day and I knew my velour tracksuit would be hanging off the lamp shade tonight." "It was Dwayne's birthday. I was preparing his special tea of Findus Crispy Pancakes and Pot Noodle. I would let him take me any way he wanted tonight. His favourite position was what he called The Dogs of War. Where he took me from behind and played Call of Duty at the same time." "Our 6 week anniversary was approaching. This would be my longest relationship without becoming pregnant. I thought of this as he lay on top of me making love. His skinny arms straddled my head like breadsticks either side of an orange. As I rubbed his whiter than white back I imagined every mole I felt was spelling out Braille for I love you" "As I stood in line at the Job Centre thinking of reasons I couldn't work, a sweet smell drifted past my pig like nostrils. It was a mixture of weed, B.O and Lynx Africa. I turned around and there was Dwayne. Our eyes met and he was soon lifting me onto the wheelie bins behind the Iceland. He had tied up his Staffy to block the ally way so we wouldn't be disturbed. There was a tramp watching but it just added to the mystery. I knew it was love and my life would never be the same." "My mum had told me to leave Dwayne many times due to the violence but I knew he loved me as he always took his rings off before he hit me. Tonight though he was in a foul mood, I had fucked his tea up after failing to de-frost his prawn ring I had nicked from farm foods. He picked up the power lead from my kids mega drive and whipped it across my arse. It stung but I liked it. I shouted again again so he carried on. I thought my shell suit would rip into a million pieces. As I looked over my shoulder I saw his Weetabix toothed smile. He even had a semi on which rare as the crack normally played havoc with his erections.

the Jeremy kyle best selling novel fifty grams of green lol
Would have been funny if written in a better order. Its like reading a book backwards. One second tea is Pot noodle and crispy pancakes then next its a Prawn ring dunno
but thats the order chavs would eat it in rolleyes
Just now in the chatrooms:
50 shades of grey sub wives or just interested (7)
cp.
BDSM pleasures (2)
rotflmao
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Just now in the chatrooms:
50 shades of grey sub wives or just interested (7)
cp.
BDSM pleasures (2)
rotflmao

Just a suggestion as a bit of back lash you could open a chat room 'Doms who hand out Audi R8's, or just interested'.
I have only read as far as the bit where Mr Grey has noted the superb VW beetle being driven by the fem, and I am guessing where the story is likely to go next, in case I get that wrong.
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Just now in the chatrooms:
50 shades of grey sub wives or just interested (7)
cp.
BDSM pleasures (2)
rotflmao

Just a suggestion as a bit of back lash you could open a chat room 'Doms who hand out Audi R8's, or just interested'.
I have only read as far as the bit where Mr Grey has noted the superb VW beetle being driven by the fem, and I am guessing where the story is likely to go next, in case I get that wrong.
It's an Audi A3 that he gives her lol
I have just read, and noted that bit JustWantFun smile. Note to Kay the Skoda Fabia is the thinking man's Audi A3 anyways, and we really only need the one car.

About 3/4 of the way thru' the first book and thinking the story is going to be along the lines of 'Pretty Woman'. That is he thinks this is going to be 'his rules' but she will turn him into vanilla husband material by the end of book three.............
.... As I stood on my second favourite street corner, I thought back to a hour ago with Dwayne, the warmth inside that I only get from mind blowing sex. After the whipping we, well Dwayne had moved onto smacking, my lips were still sore from his coitus, and my bum crack could still feel the rubbing of his tender cock where he had eventually tried to take my arse. I knew he was content by then, and the smack would keep him so until tomorrow.
The light from the pub flickered into the shadows where I was standing as the door opened, a man walked out and into my shadows. Had he seen me, was he going to be tonight's first. Dwayne had been insistent, before slumping into his sleep, COD III wasn't going to pay for itself.
1. He is not a Dom - is a 4 year old abused child in a man's body with the money to take control and try to smother the demons that scare the little lad to death.
2. She has no spine - she gets annoyed at his manipulating her with sex then just does the sex - wimp. She should have lamped him at least twice in the first book.
3. It isn't about BDSM - I'm no expert but just tying someone up and shagging them is just tying them up and shagging them - surely?
4. "Woah" is not an expression a grown woman should repeatedly use even in her own head.
5. She seems incapable of recognising that the 'gifts' are simply expressions of his control over her - the phone and computer were leashes to keep her contactable and the clothes/cars are the classic 'offer she can't refuse'. Of course she can't - she's a greedy tart.
6. If she had any self-respect at all she would have insisted on keeping her name at work, working for a company he did NOT own and the moment she found out his family knew more about the 'situation' in book 3 than she did she should have walked.
But that's just me. (I'm reading it to the end - but I am disappointed it isn't a better window into the BDSM world.)
There's no doubting its popularity, but I find the extracts I've read totally uninspiring, in content and style. The one good thing about the success of all three books is they are keeping Jeffrey Archer out of the top ten bestseller list. lol
50 Shades got me banned From waterstones as i thought it would be funnt to put all tbe 'Caution wet floor!!!' signs by the 50 shades display unit!!! smile The story of 'O' a much better book - but no mention of Roy Orbison in it at all!!!!
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1. He is not a Dom - is a 4 year old abused child in a man's body with the money to take control and try to smother the demons that scare the little lad to death.

Isn't that his motivation for being a Dom?
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3. It isn't about BDSM - I'm no expert but just tying someone up and shagging them is just tying them up and shagging them - surely?

I'm not an expert at BDSM, but if your throw some smacking into that this, I did think that was your basic BDSM. The 'warm' glow being left by the endorphin washing around after the event.
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4. "Woah" is not an expression a grown woman should repeatedly use even in her own head.

Indeed how about the expression 'Inner Goddess'?
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6. If she had any self-respect at all she would have insisted on keeping her name at work, working for a company he did NOT own and the moment she found out his family knew more about the 'situation' in book 3 than she did she should have walked.
But that's just me. (I'm reading it to the end - but I am disappointed it isn't a better window into the BDSM world.)

I guess it is intended to have a wider appeal rather than the sophisticated folks of SH?
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50 Shades got me banned From waterstones as i thought it would be funnt to put all tbe 'Caution wet floor!!!' signs by the 50 shades display unit!!! smile

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lol!!! wet floor!!
for me.... am i posting on the thread?...
for me..i have heard alot about the books from friends...sounds really kinky... if i wa one of my friends!!! but i know my friends so i have decided not to read the books as i think they will disapoint me!!... i thinki these books are for he more inhibated...never gonna get it, anal(in the uptight sense of the word!)....
am i wrong?
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The lady I am seeing this week has read it and I am now. It is fun making references to it, I don't think anyone has cracked the code yet.
As for is it good, Mary Whitehouse would want it banded, I leave it up to you.