Christian Grey is the central male character of the trilogy: ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ he is a business magnate and entrepreneur. He has achieved remarkable success as a result of his own efforts with his business strategies even though he already enjoyed an affluent lifestyle for most of his life as a result of his adoption into a wealthy family as a young child. Throughout the book, the first of a trilogy, Christian is portrayed as a man very much in control of every area of his life and this is the key of his success. He has everything he’s ever wanted, a very handsome powerful young men. The author describes him as a mystery man, very sophisticated and wealthy.
Every person has a dark side and Christian is not the exemption; a darker side to his nature is soon revealed, emerging from his pre-adoption years when he spent some time starving and suffering through repeated traumatic experiences with his birth mother who was a crack-addict. This trauma in his formative years affects his sexual preferences in adulthood. It’s a classic case of: I’m the way I am now because my childhood messed me up. He has difficulty in forging normal relationships, can’t bear to be touched and can only have a sexual encounter if he is the dominant partner rather than make love with someone as an equal. He demands for any possible submissive to sign a NON-Disclosure contract and if both parts agree they would sign a contract with stated rules. The rules state that the submissive should be willing to please him in any sexual form, he won’t be touched, the submissive will have to wear what he wants and several other explicit rules. Again he knows exactly what he wants sexually and has even drawn up a contract for Anastasia - his potential submissive - to sign. He puts no pressure on her to commit to anything, doesn’t put a time limit on a decision and everything is consensual; he also treats her with the utmost