You’re right...I haven’t read the books, just a number of blog postings and reviews about them. I wasn’t saying that there was any homosexuality in the books...my concern was that these books were just another vehicle for desensitizing our culture to other sexual perversions in the same fashion that our culture has been desensitized to homosexuality and gay marriage. You are right, though...just my opinion.
The American Thinker article is, IMO, waaay off base. Ana is not a child - she has a backbone of steel (her full name is Alexandra Steele). I found the trilogy an effective comdemnation of older woman- male adolescent pedophilia which, when uncovered, is not taken nearly as seriously as older man-female adolescent pedophilia in my experience. The book, through the voice of Ana, labels this relationship for what it was and shows the effect on the supposed "willing victim".
I have read them, but didn’t care for them. The wife however loved them, which is why I read them.
All the bitching and moaning about these books being a new low in depravity, proof a sinking culture etc, are full of it. Compared to 30, 40 and even 50 year old tomes like “The Story of O”, “Fear of Flying”, or anything by John Norman, it’s very tame.