AIBU to not let my daughter read 50 Shades of grey?

[Jennco]

To be fair she is very nearly 17. Whilst I havent read the book, so cannot be a fair judge of content, I am certain it isnt something an impressionable (very innocent) young girl to read? Apparently all of her friends have read it and she knows vaugely what its about.

So AIBU when she will probably be old enough to see the movie upon its release?

disappointed that someone would want to 'ban' a book they hadn't actually read for themselves...even if it's badly written surely you should at least attempt to read it in order to form you own opinion

but then, hey, I don't think banning books is ever a good idea.

Sorry hest. if my post annoyed. tech glitch meant that my phone only showed posts on the thread up to around 16:00 yesterday...I posted under the belief that I had read the thread

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Good luck with 50 Shades OP! Love the irony of you having been put off it until now by YOUR mum reading and enjoying it

How can anyone have read Lace and not remember the goldfish < bleurgh > Oh.Hang on.Maybe it was Lace 2.Anyway,Prince whasisname plays hunt the goldfish with whatshername,the female protagonist,in a rather unlikely but apparently sensual sex game.

If she is legally old enough to have sex, she is old enough to read about sex.

Surprised she hasn't read it by now...

I was 20 when my mother confiscated my first edition in the UK Penguin copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover. I read it on the way home from work and put it into the sitting room bookcase. It just disappeared but Mother admitted to throwing it away. She told me that she had not read it.

Wonder if it would be worth anything now.

Yabvvvvvvvu is is 17, not 7 fgs! At 13 I was reading Jilly Coopers Riders and Rivals and all that. I am not affected in the least bit by that.

londonfeminist.com/site/fifty-shades-of-rape-culture/

I wouldn't stop her reading it but I might use it as a springboard for a discussion about enthusiastic consent.

YANBU, because it's shite & she should reserve her life for books worth reading. Review on Goodreads.com is hilarious, though and will stop her feeling like she's missed anything.

I have a dd that turns 17 this year, I wouldn't want her reading 50 shades of grey. I binned mine once I was finished reading it so she couldn't sneek a peek

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The first time I read that review I laughed until my ribs hurt, thank you for posting the link!

This can't be for real, can it?

There's stuff that's more steamy in Lady Chatterley's Lover!

I love that so many of us thought of 'Lace'.

I don't remember the goldfish though?! In fact, I don't remember anything about it, I might have to try to get my hands on a copy!

I did think the ops DD was going to be much younger as she was asking if she could read it. But still, kind of sweet.

I'm sure I remember reading my (slightly) older sister reading Jackie Collins and stuff like that at about 15. It's just fiction really and banning books is just a good way to get them more interested in that taboo item.

Come to think of it, I think I have read The Stud. I'm male, and straight, but it was a pretty entertaining read.

When I was about 12/13 my dad found me reading teenage books with bits of 'sex' in them. I explained that there really wasn't anything else left in the children's library for me to read (true). He took me to the library and demanded I have a card for the adult library so I could read proper books that weren't full of 'filth'. They gave me one.

I spent the next few months going to the (adult) library everyday after school reading every filthy (adult) book I could get my hands on.

I also remember my mum having a copy of Fanny Hill which I read from cover to cover and back again.

One of mine read it at 16 and thought it hilariously badly written. Isn't it repurposed twilight fanfiction?

Oh and at 12 or 13 I was reading Henry Miller (and lending his books to my grandmother). You really can't control what a teenager reads.

I had assumed this thread was a wind-up. Apparently not. Wow. That a parent thinks they should have the power to police what their 17 year old reads is unfathomable.

Read the thread, BringMe - OP's DD has ASKED her opinion.

One way to put her off - 'Ah yes, go ahead, but I have to tell you it isn't very good. Your father and I used to have sex like this all the time and its depiction isn't very accurate. I should have written it myself'.

Huge apols for NRTFT. Well, just say go ahead. It is utter shit so doubtless she will be bored by page 60. (Page 60 is my 'allowed to put down if i am not into it' page, serves me well I think)

We used to get a book as part of our Easter present

At 16 I wanted Christine by Stephen King

My mum duly got it for me, brought it home, had a little flick through, found the only page with much swearing on it...and returned the book to the shop!

On the other hand I bought a young teen book for ds1, I think it was a Charlie Hinson one, didn't occur to me to check it til well after he had read it. Jam packed with rude words !

Higson not Hinson

I fucking hate autocorrect!!