Rory Sutherland Rory Sutherland

S&M&B&Q: Why aren’t there sex-and-shopping novels for men?

Like sexual behaviour, shopping behaviour is unbelievably strange

issue 08 November 2014
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I never got beyond page 20 in Fifty Shades of Grey. No one got shot in the first chapter, and there were more than four characters, so I rapidly found the plot confusing. In any case, I am averse to physical pain in any form (if I were to engage in BDSM activities, my secret codeword would be ‘ouch’) so it wasn’t really my thing.

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