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COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS “Sexually Positive” © 2012 by Stacey Agdern “Fifty Shades of Holy Crap!” © 2012 by Laura Antoniou “Every Breath You Take” © 2012 by Jennifer Armintrout “Editing Fifty” © 2012 by Tish Beaty “Throwing Shade” © 2012 by Mala Bhattacharjee “Kink and Condescension” © 2012 by Rachel Kramer Bussel “Forbidden Fruit Is the Sweetest” © 2012 by Suzan Colón “The Story Is in the Sex” © 2012 by Joy Daniels “The Brown Paper Bag” © 2012 by Sylvia Day “The Legal Bonding of Anastasia and Christian” © 2012 by Sherri Donovan “How I Lost Christian Grey at Auction” © 2012 by Editor X “Making Fifty Shades into Cinema” © 2012 by Angela Edwards “Raising the Shades” © 2012 by Melissa Febos “Labels, Schmabels, I’ll Take the Publicity!” © 2012 by Lucy Felthouse “The Delicate Balance” © 2012 by Ryan Field “Sexual Empowerment at the Water Cooler” © 2012 by Selina Fire “My Inner Goddess” © 2012 by Megan Frampton “The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance” © 2012 by Sarah S. G. Frantz “Fifty Shades of Change” © 2012 by Louise Fury “Fifty Shades of Women” © 2012 by Heather Graham “The McDonald’s of Lust” © 2012 by Lois Gresh “Was It Good for You?” © 2012 by Catherine Hiller “It’s All in the Eyes” © 2012 by Marci Hirsch “Fifty Ways of Looking at Sex in Fifty Shades” © 2012 by Dr. Hilda Hutcherson “Wanted: Fifty Shades of Sexual Wholeness” © 2012 by Debra Hyde “When Fifty Was Fic” © 2012 by Anne Jamison “Porn Writer on the PTA” © 2012 by Rachel Kenley “Is Fifty Shades Erotica?” © 2012 by D. L. King “The Professional Poster Child” © 2012 by Dr. Logan Levkoff “Imagining a Black Fifty Shades” © 2012 by Arielle Loren “Whose Shades of Grey?” © 2012 by Sinnamon Love “A Queer Leather Reluctant Support of Fifty Shades” © 2012 by Sassafras Lowrey “The Game Changer” © 2012 by M.Christian “The Collar of Blue Stones” © 2012 by Pamela Madsen “A BDSM Couple’s View” © 2012 by ChrisMarks and Lia Leto “A Requested Evaluation of the Mastery of Christian Grey” © 2012 by Master R “Fifty Shades of Snark” © 2012 by Midori “Being Stretched” © 2012 by Dr. Katherine Ramsland “Fifty Shades of Play” © 2012 by Judith Regan “This Is the Story” © 2012 by Tiffany Reisz “Between the Covers” © 2012 by M.J. Rose “Grey Is the New Black” © 2012 by Katharine Sands “The Byronic Hero Archetype and Christian Grey” © 2012 by Jennifer Sanzo “Crass Is in Session” © 2012 by Rakesh Satyal “Fifty Shades of Grace Metalious” © 2012 by Andrew Shaffer “Fifty Shades Is Where You Find It” © 2012 by Marc Shapiro “Fifty Shades of Diva Frenzy!” © 2012 by Lyss Stern “Fifty Shades of Stories” © 2012 by Cecilia Tan “Because Love Hurts” © 2012 by Hope Tarr, PhD “Fifty Shades of Sexual Freedom” © 2012 by Susan Wright CONTENTS Copyright Acknowledgments Introduction: Fifty Ways to Look at Fifty Shades by Lori Perkins Fifty Shades of Erotic Fiction Between the Covers by M.J. Rose This Is the Story by Tiffany Reisz The Game Changer by M.Christian Fifty Shades of Change by Louise Fury The Brown Paper Bag by Sylvia Day Labels, Schmabels, I’ll Take the Publicity! by Lucy Felthouse Porn Writer on the PTA by Rachel Kenley Is Fifty Shades Erotica? by D. L. King Fifty Shades of Romance It’s All in the Eyes by Marci Hirsch The Byronic Hero Archetype and Christian Grey by Jennifer Sanzo Grey Is the New Black by Katharine Sands Because Love Hurts by Hope Tarr, PhD Every Breath You Take by Jennifer Armintrout Intermission Fifty Shades of Play by Judith Regan Fifty Shades of Sex Forbidden Fruit Is the Sweetest by Suzan Colón Fifty Ways of Looking at Sex in Fifty Shades by Dr. Hilda Hutcherson The McDonald’s of Lust by Lois Gresh Crass Is in Session by Rakesh Satyal Sexual Empowerment at the Water Cooler by Selina Fire Fifty Shades of Women by Heather Graham Fifty Shades of Snark by Midori Fifty Shades of BDSM Kink and Condescension by Rachel Kramer Bussel A Queer Leather Reluctant Support of Fifty Shades by Sassafras Lowrey The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance by Sarah S. G. Frantz The Legal Bonding of Anastasia and Christian by Sherri Donovan Wanted: Fifty Shades of Sexual Wholeness by Debra Hyde A Requested Evaluation of the Mastery of Christian Grey by Master R The Collar of Blue Stones by Pamela Madsen Being Stretched by Dr. Katherine Ramsland Whose Shades of Grey? by Sinnamon Love A BDSM Couple’s View by ChrisMarks and Lia Leto Fifty Shades of Sexual Freedom by Susan Wright Fifty Shades of Writing The Delicate Balance by Ryan Field Was It Good for You? by Catherine Hiller The Story Is in the Sex by Joy Daniels Sexually Positive by Stacey Agdern My Inner Goddess by Megan Frampton Intermission Fifty Shades of Holy Crap! by Laura Antoniou Fifty Shades of Fanfiction Fifty Shades of Stories by Cecilia Tan Editing Fifty by Tish Beaty Throwing Shade by Mala Bhattacharjee When Fifty Was Fic by Anne Jamison Fifty Shades of Pop Culture Fifty Shades Is Where You Find It by Marc Shapiro How I Lost Christian Grey at Auction by Editor X Making Fifty Shades into Cinema by Angela Edwards Fifty Shades of Grace Metalious by Andrew Shaffer Fifty Shades of Diva Frenzy! by Lyss Stern Imagining a Black Fifty Shades by Arielle Loren The Professional Poster Child by Dr. Logan Levkoff Raising the Shades by Melissa Febos Appendix: Fifty Shades of Reading About the Editor ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BEHIND EVERY AUTHOR, there is a team. In addition to the Ab Fab writers in this book who wrote under extreme deadline and turned around corrections at lightning speed, I want to thank Louise Fury, my agent, who came up with the idea for the book and brought it to me; Debra Hyde, who kept me on track and pitched in on a moment’s notice; and Leah Wilson, who was everything an author could dream of in an editor.