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What I’ll Be Doing While You Stand In Line to Watch 50 Shades

A girlfriend told us last week that she’s planning a girl’s night to go watch 50 Shades of Grey with her friends in a few weeks.  And another friend is planning on going to the movie with her husband for their Valentine’s Day night out.

We hope they have a great time.  Really, we do.  But we won’t be going with them.

Because we’ll be at home having sex with our husbands.

We’ll just come right out and say it:  We’re not feeling overly enthused with the entire 50 Shades of Grey phenomenon.   Are these the kind of romantic heroes on which we want to base our love stories?

It doesn’t make sense to us.

We don’t want that for ourselves, but even more, we can’t stand the thought of our daughters believing that 50 Shades of Grey is a modern fairy tale.  And we’re afraid that’s exactly where our culture is headed:  Christian Grey has been elevated to some sort of modern Mr. Darcy and the true romantic heroes of our time—men like our husbands who cherish us and have never demeaned us—are labeled as… boring?

It really doesn’t make sense.

But we don’t have to let it make sense.  We can stand up and say that we don’t want Anastasia and Christian to be our romantic example.  Not when we have so many better examples—examples of men and women who have chosen to love each other fully, to never demean, to never demoralize, to keep sex as a wonderful, intimate gift that always builds, always protects, always loves.

We want that kind of love.

Not boring.  Not prude.  Not a vanilla-missionary-between-the-sheets-every-Friday-at-eight type.  But a love full of passion, full of romance.  The kind of love that dances in the living room naked to the Bee-Jees at 8’o clock on a Tuesday. I want us to kiss often and laugh even more. I want to make our kids say “EWWW!” when we make out while in the minivan. I want us to try new things, to get to know each other, to keep each other guessing, to have a red hot sex life that knows no bounds other than to keep each other fully engaged.  And to show each other that we are fully loved.

That’s what we want.  For ourselves and for our daughters and their future husbands.  And for all of our friends who want the same things.

Which is why we wrote our book series, Hot Mama.  We want sex to be a good thing—no, an amazing thing—and we want the Christian women in America to have the tools and inspiration to make it everything it can be.

And it’s also why we’ve come up with an alternative to watching 50 Shades of Grey.  We’re calling it the 50 Shades Movie Challenge.  It’s pretty simple:  While women across America are standing in rainy lines outside of theaters on February 14th waiting to watch 50 Shades of Grey, you will be at home having sex. Because why watch two people having sex when you can actually have sex with your husband?

Will you join us?

If so, feel free to grab one of the images from this post and post it on your Facebook page along with an explanation as to why you will be doing what you’re doing.  (As if you need an explanation to have hot sex with your husband.)  Let’s start a new revolution.  And make marriages in America hotter.

PLUS, to help make this challenge even easier, we’ll be giving away 10 copies of our new e-Book, 10 Ideas to Inspire Red Hot Sex, to 10 people who share this post on their Facebook pages.  Just share the link to your Facebook post in the comments on this blog and you’ll be entered to win.  Good luck!

 

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