03-17-2015, 02:12 PM
To be fair, what we see today as "50 Shades of Gray" began as a Twilight (yes, the Mormon vampires) fanfiction/erotica. It was wildly popular amongst Twilight fans so it got mainstream attention. Before a big publishing deal occurred, however, they had to change the copyrighted title characters from "Sexy teen vampires" to "Sexy billionaire and young girl next door sub". The rest of it was hyping a cash cow with the side-effects of giving children a perverse yet "socially acceptable" idea of sex, and aggrandizing the wealthy elite. It's just such a comical caricature at this point.