The secret to Fifty Shades of Grey – and it’s not just the sex!

Fifty Shades of Grey has rocketed up to the number one spot on the charts and has held onto the number one position like a dominatrix in heat. However, while many cite the books’ success to the hot sex scenes there is another kind of porn that has been making the books a smash hit – food porn.

In our modern society, we have such an unhealthy relationship with food – we either eat too much or too little. In Fifty Shades of Grey, Ana Steele has an issue with eating, only choosing to feed once or twice a day, making us wonder if the Fifty Shades of Grey heroine has an eating disorder.

However, along comes Christian Grey who wants Ana to eat and in fact, puts this down in her contract half way through book one in the Fifty Shades of Grey series. It’s sexy for Ana to eat, and seeing a man as hot and wanted as Christian, Fifty Shades of Grey is giving us a positive representation of food many of us need.

It’s become sexy to eat and to eat healthily. And having a man like Christian wanting us to eat is a breath of fresh air for many women. But not only that, Fifty Shades of Grey is full of graphic descriptions of yummy food and sometimes we just want to yell at Ana for not wanting to devour it then and there.

Christian Grey has an issue with wasted food, as we should, and perhaps 50 Shades of Grey will help us evaluate the way we eat. We don’t need to gorge ourselves into excess, but it’s not a crime to take in three meals a day.

So while many say that it’s the sex that makes Fifty Shades of Grey a sexy book, and indeed we love the sex scene, what we do love about Fifty Shades of Grey is its positive relationship with food. It’s sexy to read the dinner leading up to the foreplay between Christian and Ana, and it’s sexy to have a man who wants us to eat. Fifty Shades of Grey, we thank you!