A University of Illinois at Chicago student charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old classmate reportedly told police that he was inspired by the recent film adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey.

On Tuesday, the New York State Republican Party published the above Fifty Shades of Grey parody on their website, ostensibly to say something about how Bill de Blasio is a lady that Al Sharpton ties up and fucks.

Have you or someone you know been spanked, whipped or otherwise dominated by the deceptive marketing of 50 Shades of Grey-branded sex lube? If so, you may be entitled to compensation for your losses, should one California woman's new lawsuit be successful.

Casting roundup: Charlie Hunnam (Pacific Rim, Sons of Anarchy) will star opposite Dakota Johnson (21 Jump Street) in the film adaptation of "Fifty Shades of Grey." Also, Benedict Cumberbatch will most likely have a role in the new Star Wars.

Today on The View, things got a little saucy when Emmy Award winner/lady in the street/freak in the sheets Barbara Walters started to share a story about her own forays into the world of 50 Shades of Grey:

It's been a minute since anyone cared about the great trilogy of mommy porn that is 50 Shades of Grey. But here we are with more news about it, this time in the form of sad, sexless divorce drama.

After 24 weeks at number one, Mark Owen's Bin Laden assassination tell-all No Easy Day has dethroned 50 Shades of Grey.

Who would have thought that the real-life 50 Shades of Grey-style BDSM relationship between a 53-year-old Ivy-league graduate investment banker and his 27-year-old live-in slave would have ended in 40 text messages, a "knock-down, drag-out fight" and an arrest? And yet, the New York Post writes today, that's exactly what happened.

Panel of authors and sexperts declare 50 Shades of Grey a "piece of shit."

It takes a special, sultry someone to read aloud E.L. James' 50 Shades of Grey. With all those "holy crap's!" and "Later, baby's," Anastasia's Steele's inner goddess requires a very specific kind of reading. (Hence the trending Twitter topic, #best/worst50ShadesAudioBookNarrator. For example, Stephen Hawking and Betty White.)

We have written about 50 Shades of Grey. Our sister site, Jezebel, has written about 50 Shades of Grey. The Atlantic has written about 50 Shades of Grey. The New York Times has written about 50 Shades of Grey. Everyone has written about 50 Shades of Grey, ad nauseum.

50 Shades of Grey author E.L. James—Snowqueens Icedragon to her fans—is purportedly making an estimated $1.34 million a week off her quaint little country romance novel. Having sold 20 million copies and counting, the trilogy is calmly and methodically shattering every previous sales record in the world.

Rich liar Mitch Albom, once described by H.P. Lovecraft as "a grotesque scaly body with rudimentary wings," has written a column about 50 Shades of Grey. Reading it is like coming across a big shotgun next to a tiny barrel with an enormous, beautiful fish inside, only the fish has already hung itself from a tiny noose.

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