Part 1- 50 Shades of Grey: The Fun

So I am going to come right out and say what everyone is wondering.  Yes, I read all 3 books of the infamous "Fifty Shades of Grey."  I devoured the first book, plugged through the second and slogged through the third.  Now, in case you are wondering, I am not an erotica reader.  Frankly I am not even sure I like the erotica term.  Let's call it what it is - pornography for women and normally I have no problem saying no to the experience.  So what possessed me to want to read not 1 but 3 porno books?  Curiosity.

You see, when E.L. James came out with these books about a Dominate Christian Grey and his love affair with the wistful, innocent Anastasia Steele, I thought it was nothing more than another one of those smut books. Not for me.  After all, porno books are a dime a dozen.  Then something interesting happened.  "Fifty Shades of Grey" started getting press, MAJOR PRESS.  It was on every morning show, every talk show, news broadcasts, google news, magazine articles, media stands, it was everywhere. Journalists reported on it, women were interviewed about it.  Everyone was reading this porno series and talking openly about it on every major media source.  Christian men and women were reading it, non christians were reading it, men were reading it, doctors were reading it, CEO's and famous leaders were reading it.  It was everywhere.

I was part of a MOPS group in my church at the time and one of my good girlfriends was reading it.  She loved it and was recommending it to everyone.  Really, in church?  I WAS CURIOUS.  So, wanting to be open and honest I went to my dear husband and asked him how he would feel about me reading the series.  I just had to find out what all the fuss was about.  Now in all transparency, I must say that our sex life at the time was struggling.  I just wasn't feeling it and having a hard time ever wanting to be intimate.  Being a Mom and remembering how to be a wife is hard.  So he was all for it, thinking that it might help get things heated up a bit.  We discussed it, openly.  I did not read them in secret, in fact, I discussed the book with Bob frequently and I found other MOPS moms who were reading it and talked with them as well.  I have to admit, the day I started the book, I was excited!

And WOW was it........HOT and I LOVED it! I devoured it and frankly devoured my spouse in response.  It was awesome, fun, sexy as all get out, naughty, exciting, enticing, fantasy inducing, dreamy and just delicious.  Christian Grey was everything you could want, young, successful, super rich, gentlemanly.  He knew a woman's body and never faulted.  He wanted to give Ana the world, buy her everything, put her up in fancy hotels and buy her fancy clothes.  He took charge and always provided a mind blowingly satisfying "experience."  WOW, it not only lit my spark, it created fireworks.  I just loved it.  For the first time ever, I had a small beginning thought that maybe pornography, when experienced openly and in a committed relationship, could be a good thing.  The 400+ pages flew by and I simply could not wait to start the second book.

The fun had just begun......