Fifty Shades of Eyre

[Catlady]

It's stupid and disgusting.

[spindlegirl]

Originally Posted by Catlady

It's stupid and disgusting.

All of the silly book titles aside, I have to agree here. (was going to give you karma, but I have to spread more Karma around before they'll let me dole out more to you)

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by QuantumIguana

Alice's Adventures in 50 Shades

The Obedient Alice by Adriana Arden

Restless eighteen-year-old Alice Brown discovers to her amazement that the world of Wonderland (renamed Underland, and definitely no place for children) has begun to take young women - or 'girlings' - from our dimension as its sex slaves.

In a quest to liberate them, she encounters the perverse wiles of the White Rabbit, Hatter and Hare, and a less than regal Duchess and Queen of Hearts. And it's not only the Cheshire cat's smile, Alice finds, that lingers once the rest has vanished...

A highly original and downright filthy re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland.

Alice In Chains by Adriana Arden

Young Alice Brown has an unusual problem. Only another trip to Underland can solve it , and her bedroom mirror is the only means of return. Used once more as a pawn by the Red Queen, this time literally, and enslaved by the greedy Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Alice Must use her willingness to submit to the bizarre demands made of her if she is to succeed in returning to normal.

A delightfully perverse retelling of a classic tale, by the author of The Obedient Alice.

Both of those books are real and can be bought at Kobo.

[JSWolf]

I'm waiting for the new home decorating book...

50 Shades for Lamps and Windows

Even J. K. Rowling is getting into the act...

Harry Potter and the 50 Shades (the horse will be included too).

I'm also waiting for the book to end this mess...

Abraham Lincoln: 50 Shades Hunter

[BeccaPrice]

Sex and Sensibility?
Pride and Pornography?

[xg4bx]

John Carter:Whorelord of Mars
Uncle Tom's Dungeon
Grimms Fairy Cat O' Nine Tails
Jurassic Pork
A Farewell to Pants
Elric of Melniboner

[Barty]

But, but Jane Eyre is already a BDSM novel!

[QuantumIguana]

Stupid's half the fun. But life's too short to worry about what turns someone else on.

[kennyc]

Billy Bob's Big Adventure

[spindlegirl]

The Turn of the Screw already has quite a risque name

I'm quite the prude IRL, so even reading/coming up with alternate names has me blushing a little

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by Belfaborac

Hopefully someone will pick up the movie rights to Tarzan of the Sexy Apes. I'd pre-order that one on Blu-Ray right away.

They'd better tread carefully or they'll be hearing from the Philip Jose Farmer estate (A Feast Unknown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Feast_Unknown); the Burroughs' ERB, INC; and worst of all; Disney.

Also, Tarzan of the Bonobos would be a more appropriate title for that kind of sexplotation.

[DarkScribe]

Originally Posted by Nahgem

Meh. It's not like eroticizing the classics is a new thing, there's just a new trendy erotic novel to piggy-back with the marketing.

What irritates me is the term "mommy porn" that keeps getting thrown around (e.g. in the article). I can't decide whether it's meant to be derogatory to the readers or the books or both, but either way it's annoying.

Mommy porn is apt. Check out the mothers waiting for their kids at pre-school.

[QuantumIguana]

Mommy porn is a ridiculous pejorative. Why shouldn't women who have children have erotica?

[spindlegirl]

I don't have a feeling one way or the other about the term "mommy porn". There are men who also claim to enjoy this style of writing, and I'm a "mommy" who doesn't, so to me the term is not terribly applicable.

To me it's no different than the term "Chick Flick" even though my husband and I both equally enjoy watching Beaches, and for the same reasons, and cry at the same parts, even. He rolls his eyes at the term "Chick Flick" as if women only corner the market on being able to cry at a well choreographed sappy scene set to "Wind Beneath My Wings?"

My husband also enjoys the book Pride and Prejudice even though it's colloquially known as "classic chick lit".

[Suzanna]

The term "mommy porn" does bug me, but the media loves to tarnish anything that has to do with sex and erotic romance - which is what I consider 50 Shades to be. It's definitely not full out erotica since the sexual relationship takes place between two consenting adults in an exclusive relationship and leads to marriage, and it definitely isn't porn. It isn't even as hot as some of the erotic romances that are out there and have been for several years.

Total-e-Bound, which publishes this new line of eroticized classics, has been publishing erotic romance since 2007. And they're not the first to publish erotic versions of classic novels, so they're not just capitalizing on a new trend brought about by the release of 50 Shades. What's different, though, is the media's reaction to all things even remotely related to erotic romance for women. Even a year ago this line wouldn't have received all the attention it has, but the media is hyper aware of all things erotica at the moment.

(Disclaimer: I do have an historical romance coming out with Total-e-Bound in the near future. It isn't a take on someone else's story, though, but entirely my own - for better or for worse!)