The summer obsession with 50 Shades of Grey continues, this time confirming that it actually is a reasonably good introduction to the world of BDSM. Or whatever they're calling it nowadays.

Having read the books, I'll let you all in on the main secret of their popularity. It's not the sex, or the adventure, or the love story. The books work because the love interest is a) handsome, b) stupefyingly rich, and c) broken. Because this is a woman's fantasy, it means the protagonist actually gets to fix him!