« Fifty Shades of Grey », de l’épanouissement sexuel à l’orgie consumériste | Zoe Williams | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/15/fifty-shades-of-grey-loungewear
That’s what the pornographic slavering was about – not sex, but diamond bracelets, jet skis, hosiery, purest silks, smart day-to-night dresses, Power Macs and 19-bedroomed houses with glass walls. In the orgy of self-adornment that was meant to characterise her sexual discovery, along with the torrent of outlandish gift-giving that supposedly betokened the adoration in which she was held, Steele fixated on the stuff. Her only moral quandary was whether or not it made her a whore, or a “kept-woman”, to accept an expensive gift. What a tangential, trivial consideration, set against the travesty of letting your sex drive be all but erased by your consumer impulses.
Coincidentally, obituaries of Helen Gurley Brown, seminal editor of Cosmo, who died this week at the age of 90, mention, but out of respect, pass lightly over this issue: at what point does “making the best of yourself” cease to be about your own sexual fulfilment and become about buying stuff?