Fifty Shades of Grey depicts RAPE and has been criticized by BDSM advocates

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245. I don't actually know

As I've been quite clear, I have not read the book. I have read a series of accounts describing the rape, including by people who read the print version. I suggested the possibility of people having read different versions as a potential explanation for why interpretations differ. It may simply be that some do not see an act where a man breaks into a woman's house without her consent and then has intercourse with her as being rape. The fact she came to "want it" is the stuff of fictional rape culture, the sort of thing that teaches men that women actually want sex, even if they don't give consent at the outset. In real life, is seldom transpires as the protagonist fantasizes: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025300083

I have seen excerpts of the print version, and if that is what the industry calls an improved work, they clearly have little respect for the English language or the genre of the novel. It is no doubt about commerce like anything else. It makes a profit, just like Coke, Pepsi, or Koch industry paper towels, and really that's all that counts under capitalism. If assault and abuse are profitable, they must be okay. It's the American way.