Fifty Shades of Porn- a (kind of) Literature Joke

Why is it acceptable for a woman to read Fifty Shades of Grey in public but a man has to hide when he watches a video that covers the same… uh… theme? That’s an easy question to answer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

WARNING!!  Whenever the words “porn” and ‘joke are put together (along with Fifty Shades of Grey), you know something bad is going to happen.  Continue reading at your own risk. 

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A woman walked into the bedroom and caught her husband watching an adult movie (he was just “watching,” so you don’t have to imagine anything unseemly). 

“I told you not to watch that in here,” the wife said, disgusted. 

“I was just flipping channels,” the husband replied.  He was feeling defensive and was going through his list of excuses when he noticed the book that his wife was holding. 

“You’re reading Fifty Shades of Grey,” the husband said.  “What’s the difference between that and this video?” 

“It’s literature,” the wife said.  “It’s a book, so it’s automatically better.” 

“Let’s see,” the husband said and read the novel for a few minutes.  “The dialogue is cheesy.  The plot is contrived.  And the adult encounters in this book are more unrealistic than what I was watching.  Really, there’s not much difference between my adult video and your book.” 

“Oh yeah?” the wife said, turning to watch the video (the husband hadn’t bothered to turn it off). 

After a few minutes she paused the video and said, “The music is cheesy. You can hear the director giving instructions to the actress.  The video keeps changing angles too quickly.  The close ups are of things I don’t want to see close up.  And the lighting is really poor.” 

The husband bit his lip, perplexed.  Then he turned the video back on and stared at it for a moment. 

“Wow,” he said.  ‘I didn’t even know this video had music.”