Please stop with all the 50 Shade stories where you forget to mention that the whole premise is about manipulation, abuse and rape. For a site that talks so much about consent, how can you not be aware of the multiple rapes in this book and the way there Grey totally ignores consent (and in the 2nd book, even ignores…

Why are you promoting 50 Shades here on Jezebel, to me that seems totally against the general tone of the site? I've been a long time reader here, and consider myself a fairly enlightened when it comes to consent, abuse and rape culture - so find it astounding that instead of advising your readers that a book about an…

He had a contract laying out terms for a fairly hardcore BDSM relationship - which in its self is OK if both parties are into that, but since he broke all the rules its irrelevant. Since she only signed it to stay with him and not because she really wanted to, its irrelevant.

This whole story is really horrible. The original slave contract doesn't look too extreme from what people I know use - although it's only good if both parties consent wholly. It does seem that she signed is only to stay with him, which makes it wrong.

This whole story is really horrible. The original slave contract doesn't look too extreme from what people I know use - although it's only good if both parties consent wholly. It does seem that she signed is only to stay with him, which makes it wrong.

This whole story is really horrible. The original slave contract doesn't look too extreme from what people I know use - although it's only good if both parties consent wholly. It does seem that she signed is only to stay with him, which makes it wrong.