My neighbor and I loan each other books-she loaned me 50 Shades in exchange for Bernard Cornwell’s Empty Throne, which like so many of his books is long on history, short on romance, and the sex and violence are pretty raw, as it was in that time.
After reading less than half of 50 shades, I found the sex less than sexy-and as someone who believes women and men are equals, I found the male character obnoxious in the way he treated the female character as a possession and lesser person. The female character was a clueless idiot to allow herself to be objectified in that way. It was a stupid book, but not even close to what I consider “porn...
” I found the sex less than sexy-and as someone who believes women and men are equals, I found the male character obnoxious in the way he treated the female character as a possession and lesser person. The female character was a clueless idiot to allow herself to be objectified in that way.”
Yet women read this and love it? WHY? Women want to be treated like this by men? Feminist women? Please.
Oh it’s porn. You are just jaded.
This was originally badly written Twilight fan fiction.
Take out the sex and there is no plot. Actually, even with the sex the plot is lame.
If it describes sex graphically, in an alluring way it’s porn. Even with a third grade vocabulary. Were you to take out the sex then there isn’t even a shred of plot left here.
Bernard Cornwell-—didn’t he write the Saxon series? If Empty Throne is one of those, did you like it?