This post has been churning in my gut for a few weeks now, and I know it's not going to make me popular. I may offend people whom I love and for that I'm sorry.  However, keeping quiet about this is becoming increasingly difficult as the popularity of these books grow. Yes, I said books, and unless you have been living in a cave you probably know which ones I'm talking about, the 50 Shades of Grey Series. Just in case you're not familiar with this increasingly popular book series, here's a link to a Wikipedia entry about them.  I know from overheard discussions, facebook posts, emails, and websites that these books are continually growing in popularity and that there is now a movie deal.  These books are written in a way that they are appealing to women. Women are recommending these books to their friends, which only spreads the poison. To me the scariest thing about these books, is they are not being viewed as porn, yet if they were written to appeal to men, women would be outraged if they caught their men reading them. If these books are truly made into movies they will have to be X-rated unless much of the content is taken out of them. How many women are going to be rushing to an adult theater to view them? 

Many years ago I quit reading romance novels because they weren't realistic and I soon found myself wishing I lived in a world where men behaved that way. I found myself being disappointed that my husband didn't sweep me off my feet the way it happened in the books. Such unnecessary frustration I put upon myself and ridiculous  expectations I set up for my husband to unknowingly fail at. It was not honoring to him or our marriage. Generally speaking, romance novels aren't as explicitly graphic as 50 Shade of Gray is, I can't help but think that these books may open doors to things that shouldn't be. That something that God has intended to be a beautiful thing between a husband and a wife will be twisted into something other than beautiful. 

In trying to find different reviews on these books I found one written in the NY Times by a man. The title of his piece? "It's all porn to me:...." One of the scariest lines to me, in his review is this; It manages, miraculously, to be at once pornographic and deeply unappealing to men – it is a kind of pornography that attracts only women, and thus far it is selling off the charts.

This isn't just a "God" thing either, it's a right and wrong issue. Pornography is wrong, disgusting and degrading, whether it be photo's, movies and yes, books.