Teenage Girls Reading Fifty Shades of Grey?

Would you let your teen daughter read past the cover of EL James' bondage trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey?  For me, the answer is easy.  My daughter is 8 and a long way from being able to understand words like shackles and sadomasochism.  However, with the books taking the world by storm- and Hollywood getting ready to film a movie based on them- it is a fair question for many mothers.  Would they? Should they?

When I was a teenager the book Forever by Judy Blume started a shockwave across suburbia.  It told the story of Catherine as she lost her virginity.  Not with an S&M expert who led a billion dollar corporation, but with Michael, a sweet teenage boyThey were different times, pre-Internet, and the fact that Michael nicknamed his member "Ralph" was enough to make 8th graders pass secret copies around the school.

I was lucky. My parents were so thankful I was an avid reader- and all around good kid- that they didn't even notice what books I bought with my babysitting money at Waldenbooks when I took the bus to the mall with my friends.  I was one of the first girls in the school to buy a copy.  Not because I was cool. I had been so naïve that I assumed a book by Judy Blume meant another story about Margaret or Deenie.  Boy was I surprised!

And again, this was pre-internet and it took a while for the buzz to begin.  By which point I had read the book and passed it on to my best friend Donna, so she could hide it under her mattress. My mother would have probably been OK with it anyway.  She was the cool mom.

Forever is one thing.  Fifty Shades of Grey quite another.  I don't think there are many women who would hand over their (dog-eared) copy to their 16 year-old.  But I'm also not naïve (anymore) and I know that pretty much every one of those girls will read it anyway.  They will pass it on through their Nooks and Kindles- because there is no longer a need for them to hide a book under their mattress.  They will discuss it on Facebook and Twitter and roll their eyes in disgust at the idea of their mothers understanding such things.

And Moms will breathe a sigh of relief- and pretend to not know what's happening. Because the important thing is not to lose track of our well-worn Fifty Shades paperbacks, that we have hidden under the mattress.

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