The Essence of the Fifty Shades Trilogy & Why Women Love It. I recently read the first two books in the Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy (have the third one on hold), and it was easy to see what the big fuss was about when it comes to these books. Some people think its the crazy hot sex scenes, but come on now, we can seriously read/ watch/ imagine/ see that in lots of other places too and masses of women aren't swooning to that stuff. Personally, I found the writing of the sex scenes annoying, referring to her womanhood (trying to keep this at least PG lol) as "her sex" just totally irked me for some reason and put me off of those scenes completely. What I think the underlying draw to this story really is, is that it hits on so many women's primal desire to "fix" broken men. Well that and to find a man who is an actual man... not a wimp who has no idea what he's doing in l...