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Originally Posted by xg4bx
its not that its a taboo, its just that we're americans and we need pop culture to ocassionally tell us that human sexual interaction is acceptable. after the book isn't popular anymore we'll zip up and go back to our lives of quiet unfulfillment and treating sex like a dirty shame. 
'oh a popular book is telling us its ok to have sex? ok, we'll give it the ol' college try then.'
the sad thing is that i'm only halfway facetious. |
i don't think it's just americans; maybe just traditional "polite society" in a way. i'm asian, and sometimes i really wonder about some of the couples i meet. or maybe i've just been reading too many romance novels (albeit, gay ones, haha). i attended a sort of family dinner (my uncle and my parents' friends and their family), and i was chatting with my sister's godfather's married daughter (got that? xD) who was into the freebie romance novels, and i asked her if she had recently read 50 shades (simply because it's been splashed on the news and online), and she said that she generally avoided "weird" books like that.