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Page 48, The Culture
James' Bondage
The shy British mum whose naughty book set U.S. hearts afire
By Belinda Luscombe

...Until recently James was posting her stories online for free, and she readily acknowledges that they are heavily based on another person's work. Yet her trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed is set to be published by Vintage, a division of Random House, in a reported seven-figure deal...Grey dearly wishes that Ms. Steele, as he often calls her, would sign a nondisclosure agreement as well as a contract in which she agrees to let him control everything she eats and wears and to let him "flog, spank, whip or corporally punish" her as he sees fit. And she can't ever touch him. Also she's a virgin.

Despite the field-size red flags all this raises, she's torn: "No man has ever affected me the way Christian Grey has, and I cannot fathom why. Is it his looks? His civility? Wealth? Power?" Nothing, after all, says civility like a guy who, when he trusses you up, uses an expensive necktie.

In some hands, exploration of the erotic hinterlands where danger and desire coexist can be thought-provoking and perceptive. Story of O. Last Tango in Paris, Beauty and the Breast...

David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
April 23, 2012,
New Taipei City Library,
Panchiao, New Taipei City