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Over at Babeland, a New York sex shop, the best-selling trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” has shifted from erotic fiction to how-to guide. On a recent Friday, a hundred or so women, four men, and one Chihuahua crowded into the SoHo store for a class inspired by the books. “I found out about the books because people kept coming into the store and asking about specific products—floggers, restraints, paddles,” said Claire Cavanah, Babeland’s co-founder.
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I'm kind of speechless about this, and I can't quite say why. I guess maybe it's because of the wide array of genre fiction that I usually read that I feel that it's like a lot of people are living under a rock these days? But I suppose now that something "taboo" has made it into the mainstream, more people are slowly acknowledging it...