Genetics & publishing & ‘Fifty Shades’s Dakota Johnson

Some of the press about Dakota Johnson daring to appear in “Fifty Shades of Grey” includes nods to her famous parents and their own free-spirited performances. After all, mom Melanie Griffith has done nudity; dad Don Johnson let it all hang out in “The Harrad Experiment.” What no one’s remembering is that the 1973 film was based on a book just as shocking for its time. When Harrad was published in 1969 it was considered so super-hot you could only buy it via mail-order! (After Bantam issued the “free love manifesto” in paperback, it sold 300,000 copies in the first month.) The racy tome wasn’t a beginner’s guide to S&M  like Fifty Shades, but there were hookups galore (of college kids), group marriage, and lines like, “Sometimes I wake up in the night and for a sleepy moment I may forget whether I am with Stanley, Jack or Harry…”