This document provides an overview of ENG 114 Final Presentation topics by Rachael Creger including: definitions of sadism and masochism; sales statistics for Fifty Shades of Grey and reasons for its popularity; a rationale for sexual script theory and Gail Markle's related study; important women in the porn industry; the history of erotic art; a multimodal project and fieldwork report on definitions of sadism and masochism; and how erotic literature allows women to speak up, explore, assume roles and dominate.

1. ENG 114 – Final Presentation
Rachael Creger
From Joseph Apoux‟sAlphabet Pornographique, c. 1880‟s

2. “bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism”
Sadism: The tendency to derive pleasure, esp. sexual
gratification, from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation
on others.
Masochism: The tendency to derive pleasure, esp. sexual
gratification, from one's own pain or humiliation.

3. “Fifty Shades of Grey”
• most sales were eBooks
• #1 New York Times‟ “e-book bestbellers” March 2012
• #3 on Amazon‟s Best Sellers List
• Women are comfortable & like the secrecy of an e-reader
From “Discreetly Digital, Erotic Novel Sets American Women
Abuzz” – by Julie Bosman, New York Times

4. Rationale = Theory
Sexual Script Theory
• Defined
• Gail Markle‟s study
• Sexual Script Theory - development
•“Blueprints” explained
Gail Markle‟s“Can Women Have Sex Like a Man? Sexual Scripts in Sex and The City”

5. Wendy McElroy‟s XXX: A Woman’s Right to Pornography contains two
entire chapters about women in the porn industry and interviews…
Some women include:
• Bobby Lilly
• Nina Hartley
• Crystal Wilder
• Candida Royalle
• Kat Sunlove

6. •Ancient History
•Middle Ages
•Italian Renaissance
• Gothic Art & Northern Renaissance
• 17thCentury
• 18thCentury
•19th Century
•20thCentury
• 21stCentury
From Art & Popular Culture‟s website…

7. From my multimodal project

8. 40
30
How well do you fit the
# of people
20 Sadism definitions of Sadism?
Masochism?
Masochism
10
On a zero to ten scale…
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
fitting the definitions
on a 1-100 scale
From my Fieldwork Report

9. Erotic Literature allows women to :
• speak up
•explore
• assume roles
• dominate
From "Why „Fifty Shades of Grey‟ is Good for Women." BuzzFeed
a transcribed conversation between two BuzzFeedauthors

10. rachaelcreger.wordpress.com