Ladies, can we ask you a personal question? Have you done it yet? You know what we’re talking about (nudge, nudge, wink, wink!). Have you bought it?

We are, of course, talking about Fifty Shades of Grey –the book that is, according to reports, turning quite Irish women into sexually-charged beasts. Yes, apparently we’re all gone a bit wild after reading the raunchy, bum-spanking, whip-wielding novel.

Irish Central reports today that we’re all so bloody mad for a bit of Christian Grey and his kinky ways that the poor staff at Easons on O’Connell Street can’t actually keep it in stock.

“It is bananas. We had a delivery of 400 at the O’Connell Street branch at the start of the week. The manager went on her break at noon, and when she came back every copy was gone,” said David O’Callaghan, a buyer for Ireland’s most well-known book shop.

“It isn’t available anywhere at the moment. I’ve ordered 26,000 copies to be delivered next week, and 20,000 of those have been presold, pretty much all to women,” he added.

The novel was released in Ireland a mere 12 weeks ago, and so far it has sold over 85,000 copies. Not bad for something that began life as a bit of Twilight fan fiction, huh?

But Irish women love it – yes, who knew that we’d all be delighted with a bit of S&M? Either way the book (although cringey in parts) has a way of drawing you in. Who doesn’t love a dark, mysterious billionaire with a painful secret after all?

In fact, we love it so much that we’re openly buying it and reading it on the Luas/Dart/bus. Everyone knows that the book is pure filth, so we no longer feel embarrassed about breaking out that bad boy in public. Hey, at least we’re reading right?

So ladies, have you gotten up, close and personal with Christian Grey yet? What does your other half think?