While I am against any censorship or boycott of any kind of art expression, and NOT against erotica or porn to a certain limit (that is, pedophiles, animals, BDSM; well, you got the picture) I cannot say that 50 Shades, just like Twilight, worth a critical acclaim whatsoever. So far it's just an overrated, glorified hype, mostly (or I should say sadly?) among women.
A friend of mine, a young one, suggested her newlywed friend to "practice the 50 Shades way" in her honeymoon. She repeated it again in twitter. Another one did actually admit in twitter that she masturbated while reading the book, and she practiced the 50 Shades BDSM with her husband, albeit "softer" (and ended up with ridiculous, but not fatal, disaster). A general manager in my company, rich single woman in her 30s, did boast that she had finished all 4 Twilights and 3 50 Shades. These are "decent" middle-upper class women with "respectable" standing, career and reputation. Some are church-goers, have proper family etc. Oh, speaking about church, a hotel in England planned to replace Gideon Bibles in their rooms with 50 Shades, simply for its best-selling sensation. (I don't mind having Bible missing from hotels, you can download it for free; but isn't there any better books to put in?)
Mind you, this is not the first erotica written by a woman and/or marketed mainly to women. There are many of those in the past, some even made a prominence. (My dad had some erotic novels in his shelf, one of them was written by a woman I couldn't recall the name.) Many women are no more "victimized" in porn or sex industry in any scale, if you still think of them as mere objects of lust in it; in fact they actively play the big money there.
But...
Is the first time an erotica, well, let's say "porn" then, is elevated to a "respectable" standing? Simply because it is written as a Twilight fan fiction, and read by Twi-moms and Twi-girls of middle-upper classes, who have previously worshiped the series which had become its basis? Correct me if I'm wrong, but do they, or you, think that 50 Shades of Grey can officially distance itself from "ordinary, men-oriented, decadent, immoral, pervasive and degraded pulp-fiction porn" and rise into "literate", "civilized" society simply because it is written "by woman for women"?
My girlfriend doesn't like it. Sorry, but we don't use any S.O.P. for sex. And Twilight? I must restrain her from burning them right there in the bookstore.
Sorry, maybe I'm just ranting.