Lukas Prytikin asked Kelly Batten:

HALLO KELLY, CAN I ASK YOU WHY (THAT'S A REAL SERIOUS QUESTION !) WHY SO MUCH SHALLOW TRASH IS READ NOWADAYS BY MOST JOUNG WOMAN ?! THIS IS OF COURSE JUST MY SUBJECTIVE HUMBLE OPINION ! BY TRASH I MEAN SHALLOW, INSIGNIFICANT EROTICA-BOOKS LIKE 50 SHADES OF GREY ! WHAT'S ABOUT SOFISTICATED, BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN ERTICA BY ANAIS NIN ?! 'DELTA OF VENUS' IS A BOOK MOST PEOPLE I TALKED TO HAVE NEVER EVER HEARED OF !

Kelly Batten Hi Lukas! So sorry it's taken me so long to reply! I didn't realise I'd been asked a question (whoops!). Ok. Well, here goes: I must say I've never read 50 Shades of Grey and don't intend to, and sadly I don't know who Anais Nin is either, but as for why young women read books like 50 Shades... maybe because it's easy to read? Because it easily satisfies some desire inside them? It's enlightening on... such things? Who really knows? Maybe simply because they want to know what all the fuss is about, to feel on top of the times. I don't really read erotica, just romances by Jamie McGuire, Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, those kind of people. That's the best answer I can give =)

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