OK yes I read Fifty Shades of Grey. Everyone else was doing it, and it was supposed to be so amazing Women. Reading things About sex Imagine And now the movie tries to continue that sense of amazement the wonder that women might want to see a movie about sex. Kinky sex at that Too bad that sex is the last thing that Fifty Shades is about.
Christian Grey Jamie Dornan is a super powerful mogul whose sexual tastes include and are limited to BDSM bondage domination sadism and masochism all with the full consent of his partners. Anastasia Steele Dakota Johnson is an essentially powerless and untouched woman she has a virgin and says she has never done other stuff whose sexual tastes include well we are not quite sure what she likes. At one point she REALLY likes a peacock feather but the choice to get down and birdy is not hers.
The message of Fifty Shades is harmful. Not the BDSM stuff What consenting adults get down to in the bedroom or in the living room or on the kitchen table is perfectly fine as long as they do not wake the neighbors. But Fifty Shades relies on the same tired tropes we have seen a thousand times the same messages we have heard from sources as varied as religious fundamentalists and Nicholas Sparks novels Womens sexuality is pure and something to be controlled. Mens sexuality is something to be feared and eventually tamed. Moreover women should have no sexual urges until they arrive at heterosexual partnered sex at which point the man and his magical member appear and is orgasms for everyone every time Men on the other hand are not only expected to start their sexual lives early but their sexuality permeates every aspect of their lives business romance shopping for hardware not a joke Actually happens in the movie.
Add that to the overly simplistic incredibly repetitious message of the film he completes her with his penis she fixes him with her purity and Fifty Shades is nothing new. Its a message we have been beaten with before.
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