YVY’s Nude Edition accessories play around with the dominatrix and submissive side of a woman in their latest collection. The Nude leather and studs enhances the erotic view of a woman’s body and compliments their desire to be naughty, nice and held in check.

Harnessing Sexual Desire

This look for women has become very popular since the The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy stormed into bookstores, asking women to explore their sexuality more fully. In America alone, more than 20 million copies have been sold. The trilogy represents one in five adult print books sold this past spring.

The Daily Beast’s Katie Roiphe writes that the book “has a semipornographic glamour, a dangerous frisson of boundary crossing, but at the same time is delivering reassuringly safe, old-fashioned romantic roles. Reading Fifty Shades of Grey is no more risqué or rebellious or disturbing than, say, shopping for a pair of black boots or an arty asymmetrical dress at Barneys.”

The Grey movement has created a group of people obsessed with labeling as traitors to feminism the women who enjoy such a novel, while a married British woman referred to this book as a reason for divorce. Citing her husband’s vanilla bedroom etiquette as “unreasonable behavior”, she required more from her man.

The Grey book has been labeled with chosen words like “Mommy Porn” which we find to be quite offensive to all women. Why must we call it mommy porn? When in fact women of all ages — with and without children — are buying Fifty Shades.

When men are caught watching porn it is not referred to as being salacious, but rather a societal norm. So why must people put labels on everything remotely erogenous involving women? In recent years acronyms such as MILF (which refers to mothers who enjoy sex) remind me that women are constantly being spoke of as objectives — as in Mothers I’d Like to …

MILF is a man’s word even though plenty of women wear it proudly. 

Women and Sexual Desire

Why has it taken this long for some women to realize that they do enjoy a bit of BDSM when they aren’t being forced with sexual assault to partake? More importantly, hasn’t Fifty Shades of Gray given women license to admit in buying the book and reading it openly, that a bit of submission in bed can be inspiring on occasion?

Or is reading Fifty Shades a message to one’s partner that he just isn’t cutting it in bed?