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Very recently (this past weekend), I took a little trip to my hometown in Western NY on the way to a music festival in Toronto. Nothing would do but to put together an impromptu reunion with people I haven't seen in roughly a decade. Including one of my very first boyfriends, who happens to be the first boy I ever tied up. With the exception of him, my friends were/are all more or less vanilla, and fairly innocent in our youth. I'm not quite sure how it happened, but the book 50 Shades of Grey comes up in conversation. Not just once, or at one place, but at both dinner and the after dinner drinks bar. We kept it reasonably clean at dinner, jokingly talking about the horrible writing and the Gilbert Gottfried narrated youtube video. However, once the celebratory reunion drinks start running more freely...the conversation gets a bit more in depth. I love that I discovered that my childhood friends all have a little freak living inside of them! Although, the highlight of the night had to be my oldest friend at the table saying: "Well, guys, the reason that the book is so hot is because it voices everything that ALL females want! We want to have our hair pulled, be shoved against a wall, and taken! We just don't know how to ask for it. And guys want to do it too but they're afraid that we will freak out." All round the table, my girlfriends nod in agreement. Surprisingly, I am not the one to disagree - boy the first is. "I disagree - not all men want to do that - I want it to be done to me!" Silence. He shrugs, looks at me, and says "I'm submissive." Happily, another of my girls jumped in saying "Well, that explains why my boyfriend got so excited the first time he saw my handcuffs on my bedpost." What a way to bond!