Earl Grey’s Fifty Shames

The Complete, Unexpurgated List

1. Shopping at Walmart on Saturdays

2. Bondage with handcuffs

3. Plays BDSM (Bards, Dragons, Sorcery, and Magick)

4. Mancrush on Tom Cruise, even after all the Scientology/Katie Holmes BS

5. Spanking

6. Actually likes the taste of Bud Light

7. Whipping

8. Flogging

9. Cried when Oprah went off the air, but never found the time to watch her cable channel

10. Caning

11. Backdoor sex

12. Prefers Jay Leno over David Letterman

13. Teabagging

14. Nipple clamps

15. Doesn’t understand why everyone hated the Star Wars prequels so much

16. Thought Jerry Seinfeld was the funniest part of Seinfeld

17. Bath & Body Works Signature Collection Coconut Lime Breeze body wash

18. Cock rings

19. Doesn’t get Mad Men–like, at all

20. Uses a PC laptop with an Apple sticker covering the Dell logo

21. Steals Wi-Fi from neighbors

22. Finds it incredibly erotic when women pick their noses

23. Nickelback

24. Only flosses teeth the week before a scheduled dentist appointment

25. Watches Titanic at least once a year, and laughs every time when that guy hits the propeller

26. Team Jacob

27. Trolls Craigslist for dates

28. Wishes Katy Perry and Russell Brand would reunite, because they were so good together

29. Thought Heath Ledger was “just okay” as the Joker

30. Olive Garden is his favorite Italian restaurant

31. Bondage with rope

32. Pays women to live-action role play (LARP)

33. Never finished reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

34. Watches professional wrestling religiously even though he knows it’s not “real”

35. Gossip Girl

36. Can’t remember the last time he trimmed his toenails

37. Makes frequent references to Snakes on a Plane, even though it wasn’t even funny to do so when the movie was in theaters

38. Vibrators

39. Thinks Tim Burton is kind of overrated

40. Wishes everyone would just leave Kristen Stewart alone

41. Lesbian porn doesn’t really do it for him

42. Can eat a pint of Ben & Jerry’s in under half a minute

43. Thinks Jeff Foxworthy is hilarious

44. Snowballing

45. Thinks you just can’t beat a good floral-print Hawaiian shirt

46. Kind of thought George W. Bush was decent as commander in chief

47. Butt plugs

48. 16 and Pregnant

49. Pegging

50. Reads erotic romance novels