Naughty Naughty Naughty Economy

When household icon, Christian Grey, hand cuffed the all American heartthrob Anastasia Steele into submission, his intentions were to turn a plain Jane into a kitty on hot tin. Little did he know that the cracking sound of his feathered and tasseled whip drove a libidinousless and otherwise vanilla economy up against the roof.

According to this article, Cindy Faulkner of Pure Romance, along with other “consultants” in the adult entertainment industry toot their own horns by citing some figures that have developed since the release of the 50 Shades of Grey Trilogy. The numbers seem quite impressive given the short amount of time it took the books to influence those who once swooned over pseudo-romantic literature like the Twilight Saga into switching gears to BDSM.

My business is about to explode
says Faulkner, unaware (or maybe aware) of the pun. She also says that her sales and bookings of Tupperware parties, designed specifically to sell sex toys and complimentary objects to middle aged women in the suburbs, have increased 15 to 20 percent in the past two months, helping set a pace for $120MM in 2012 sales.

The Trilogy which has been pulled off the shelves of some of our dignified libraries in not-so progressive states like FL and WI, started as fan fiction based on the aforementioned Twilight Series where it was available for free to everyone who cares about sparkling vampires.

A small shop in Australia realized the potential and bought publishing rights from the books’ one minute author, E.L James. In no time, Vintage Books, owned by Random House, bought the book and is now harvesting a seven-digit figure in revenues.

Six Printings and 10 Million Copies have been sold so far in 37 countries! While the author and the publisher are making tremendous amounts of money by providing virtual gratification to deprived and sexually frustrated women everywhere, others are determined to not miss the opportunity, contributing to the bottom line of the $13.3Billion adult entertainment industry.

A movie deal has already been signed and talks about sourcing the cutest thing produced by Canada, Ryan Gosling, are trickling through Hollywood vines.

To some, the business opportunities here are endless and the iceberg has barely been tapped (ha!). From appointing a licensing agent, to following up with a counter POV book (32 Flavors of Miss. Steele), to branding numerous consumer goods, including but not limited to lingerie, fragrances, entry level BDSM gear, cosmetics and teddy bears; yes you read that right, teddy bears. The nerve of some people!

Although the Trilogy targets a certain demographic of women, have any of you, men, read the books? What kind of business ideas would you add to the already established and diverse list of businesses? Would you exploit the dire need of some spice in a lot of unassuming and unsuspecting women’s lives? Please do tell.

I know a great copyright and patent lawyer if you come up with any worthy ideas. As for myself, I am finding a way to send an apology letter to Marquis de Sade’s grave on behalf of humanity, as well as writing a book that would put Daddy Grey to shame.

 
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One of my girl friends had it with her when we were lounging by the pool a few weeks ago... I had read about it online, and so I decided to ask her for a brief glance. She picked out a "saucier" chapter/paragraph for me and I started to read. I have to say that I couldn't believe women actually read this garbage; everything about was so corny and written in such a PG-13 way, that I couldn't believe this was what all the hype was about. I looked over at my friend with a dumbfounded look on my face, and even she acknowledged that it was pretty bad at times, but still entertaining. I kept reading, trying to find something more... but it never came (pun intended).

And OP, as a response to your post, I don't have any good business ideas to make some $$$ off this reading, except for maybe a giant bonfire get-together where we toss all the copies of this book in and dance around the fire.

 
George87:
I couldn't believe women actually read this garbage; everything about was so corny and written in such a PG-13 way, that I couldn't believe this was what all the hype was about.

And OP, as a response to your post, I don't have any good business ideas to make some $$$ off this reading, except for maybe a giant bonfire get-together where we toss all the copies of this book in and dance around the fire.

George87, I totally agree with you; it is such bad writing that I cringe whenever someone classifies it as "erotic literature". I thought there were rules against publishing sub par garbage?

And I would absolutely join you in an evil ritualistic burning of the books.

P.S: Awesome pun

I may not be on the Jedi Council, but I sure am great with the Force. See my WSO blog posts
 

lol lol fifty shades of grey actually inspired a female friend of mine to start on her own blog of erotic literature...its called ultimate pleasures...she also said that the writing in 50 shades of grey was really terrible.

zAK
 

A friend recently told me she would like to build "fifty land" as in Disney land but for adults seeking this type if thrill. I told her that there is FetishLife in the basement of a restaurant in China Town, NYC but she didn't believe me- I gave her the address and I am sure she is talking LBO now.

I may not be on the Jedi Council, but I sure am great with the Force. See my WSO blog posts
 

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