Just a few weeks ago I got myself a copy on a
very beautiful read, and I have a very famous new type of read to thank for
that. It was in such a “oh well” manner how I got the book. I had just popped
into a stationary store in the hope of getting my hands on the much then talked
about book Fifty Shades of Grey. I
thought it would be all over the store since it was the title on everyone’s
lips, but to my avail it wasn't. So I
went on onto the Internet to get the author’s name, and since I knew nothing of
the book I decided to read the book synopsis while I was at it. Can I just take
this moment to thank Wikipedia’s very straightforward and factual way of
explaining/ describing/updating us on things of the world, because it took just
one sentence from the book’s page on Wikipedia to know EXACTLY what that book
was about and I immediately lost all interest in it. It read “Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic novel by British
Author E.L James” It
took no further reading to know that the book wasn't my glass of wine.
I mean really, a whole 500 odd paged novel on
sexual escapades? Really?! Is that what our reading has been reduced to? I
thought we already had almost half of the film industry dedicated to the
arousal of people’s minds and their genitals. Is it not enough that people can
walk into a store solely made for the exchange of erotic films and all other
sexual toys? And need I mention how you may do so at any time of day? Or so I've heard, I mean I wouldn't know of anything of that sort. As if already our
televisions aren’t bombarded with all things sexual. We get the point that “sex sells” but it
can’t sell EVERYTHING!! And now somebody had to go on and barge in on such an
elite industry as that of books. Just what we need right?!
I’m not saying that there haven’t been any
books of this sort, there’s an endless shelf of Mills & Boon in my very own
home to contest my word on that. But this one must be a first of its kind; its
rather very graphic, or at least I can imagine it to be with the choice of the
word ‘erotic’ used to describe it. Its ‘hard-core porn’ whereas the products of
Mills & Boon are more tasteful in their nature. This book is a first of its kind and it hit
everybody by storm. It sold over 65 million copies worldwide, now that is a
very impressive number. “The fastest-selling paperback of all time” it says on
Wikipedia.
Well it appears that the inhabitants
of this world have been waiting for a read such as this. Could it be that
finally something extremely sexual wasn't hidden away in a dodgy shop down the
street corner? Or maybe its because the age restriction of ‘R Rated’ films was
uncapped when put on paper. That should explain the fast pace of its selling.
Or could it be that people are more comfortable now to talk about sex, are more
people being sexually liberated now? The sales and the talk surrounding this
book leaves me with lots of questions regarding us as humans. Are we a sexually
frustrated people looking for some sort of relieve from our core lusts? Does
our image scream out “must see sex” to the media drivers? So much that it leads
them to think that sex must be displayed in all corners possible of our interaction with the world?
H’mmm don’t think I’ll get all these answers from regular folk but what
I can deduce from all this is that there is a yearning for a satisfaction of
peoples sexual desires. We are a lustful people!!
