Of course, it’s not as if masochists didn’t always sort of know that. It’s not so much that with Fifty Shades, porn has gone mainstream it’s that with Fifty Shades the mainstream has been revealed as porn. But now, with its release on DVD, Fifty Shades of Grey - maybe the only movie ever made that’s understood the appeal of a woman looking at a man across 12 inches of hard-wood conference table and murmuring “no anal fisting” - puts contract in the light it deserves (glowing, above the Apple logo). What you won’t find, despite the fact that in book form it has sold over 100 million copies and as a film has made more than $500 million, is contract porn. IF YOU GO ON PornHub, you’ll find a lot of different kinds of porn, some pretty obvious (“blowjob,” “gangbang”), some not so obvious (“feet,” “tickling”), and at least one or two (“smoking while pissing”) the attraction of which is not obvious at all (no offense, smokers and pissers). Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith. This essay is excerpted from a longer piece forthcoming in Neoliberalism and Literature (2016), ed.
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