Seegee:
Saw a snippet from the red carpet on the Oscars where Dakota Johnson (star of 50 Shades) and her mother Melanie Griffith had a rather uncomfortable moment when Melanie expressed no desire to ever see her daughter in the film due to the nature of it. I found it kind of odd coming from Melanie when one of the first things I remember seeing her in was Brian DePalma's Body Double where she played a porn star with the name of Holly Body and she did a very sexy full body striptease in that. Of course seeing a public mother/daughter spat like that made me immediately think of spanking, as well.
Wasn't the story 'twist' in "Body Double," as suggested by the film's title, that Melanie Griffith's character hadn't actually done that tantalizingly sensual stripping herself? In which case, I suppose she could argue that the character was somewhat more 'pure'--or less exhibitionistic anyway--than she first appeared to be?
Another possible interpretation could be that Ms. Griffith is more tolerant of 'vanilla' sexuality than its kinky counterpart, which would be an unfortunate attitude.
Over a quarter-century ago, the movie "Exit to Eden" came out--it got away with portraying a bit of kinky eroticism via playing it primarily for laughs, although the portrayal wasn't lacking in positivity in some aspects.
Anyway, it did feature two brief demonstrations of female-spanks-male interaction--a flashback at the very beginning with a boy provoking his family's maid to spank him over his undershorts, then later the same character as a young man being sensuously spanked (although only a couple of swats were directly shown) by the mistress/owner of the kink-based resort.
In spite of its often insipid silliness and some misrepresentation of the spanking kink (notably the suggestion that the mistress developed her 'toppish' spankophile desires due to her father's emotional coolness), I eventually purchased the DVD of "Exit to Eden," because it is a mainstream motion picture (albeit not nearly as highly publicized as "Fifty Shades of Grey") which features a couple of short spanking scenes which I can relate to.
Thus I can understand why 'bottomish' female spankophiles would find "Fifty Shades of Grey" quite appealing in its popularization of their own feelings, even given the film's reportedly questionable portrayal of a Dominant/submissive romantic relationship.
It's certainly interesting to read/hear about feminine reactions to both the novel(s) and motion picture, especially those of seemingly 'vanilla' women...
--C.K.