Kissing is so vanilla. Lets just breathe into each others mouths.

“Kissing is so vanilla. Let’s just breathe into each other’s mouths.”

A lot of the Fifty Shades of Grey backlash—particularly from people who have never read or seen Fifty Shades of Grey—is inspired by discomfort with the idea of women’s sexuality. The concept of women taking pleasure from a consensual but nontraditional relationship with a sexy man is somehow still too prickly for pop culture to embrace. So they make jokes about how poorly written the book is, they diminish the countless real-life women who decide to visit—for the first time in their lives, maybe—a sex toy shop after being drawn into the story. All of this is happening because it’s easier to belittle something that you don’t want to acknowledge. So let’s be clear: If you want to read a review loaded with snarky slut-shaming, you’ll have to look elsewhere. The internet is full of those kinds of reviews right now…