Katie Roiphe, a cultural critic and regular Slate columnist, has the cover of Newsweek today with a provocative piece analyzing the appeal of the soft-core erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, and, more broadly, working women’s apparent interest in submissive sex. Roiphe suggests that the sudden popularity of the book might arise from an unexpected source; namely, the increasing equality tha
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In Newsweek, Katie Roiphe has dissected the emergence of "submission" in our cultural landscape, specifically via novel "Fifty Shades of Grey," as perhaps indicating that equality is something women only want sometimes. But the two ... Read Post
I couldn’t help it, you guys! I just had to respond to Katie “My Sex Life is More Exciting Than Everyone Else’s” Roiphe’s latest in Newsweek on Fifty Shades of Grey and how professional women these days want to be dominated in the b... Read Post
As we reported on XX Factor earlier this week, Katie Roiphe, a cultural critic with polemical tendencies and a regular Slate columnist, has penned a cover story for Newsweek on the popularity of submissive sex among working women. R... Read Post