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Every inch of you is perfect even if you are alone on Valentine's day

There's no rush to get hitched, or get into a bad relationship – it's better to be single than unhealthy (emotionally). Marriage is a big deal, so there's no need to leap onto the next moving thing that proposes. PHOTO| FILE| NATION MEDIA GROUP

What you need to know:

  • Yes, that scary taboo for all women. No one finds you attractive enough to commit to? (because let's face it, finding someone to bump uglies with is so much easier if you are female – so much so that does it even mean anything anymore?)
  • The only person I'll be bumping uglies with tomorrow night is my sofa as I watch reruns of Real Housewives of Atlanta.
  • Yes, they are a crazy uber-dramatic bunch, but they remind me of a lot of Nairobi women as well.

So 50 Shades of Grey has been banned from the cinema, thus ruining my big I'm-a-single-girl Valentine's plans to go sit in a dark room with hundreds of people and laugh at the fact that someone finds violent coerced sex appealing.
Because inasmuch as 50 Shades has been touted as the best thing for the mommy porn genre since Harlequin romance novels, it actually is a tale that sheds disturbing light on the world of BDSM – Bondage Domination Slave Master, for the uninitiated.

I mean, the entire badly written trilogy is basically a poster child for the terrible idea that men have about how when a girl says no, all she wants is to be plied with enough money/alcohol until she says yes – and then she'll realiSe she meant yes all along.