Is 50 Shades of GREY a legitimate story?Posted by Ellington Bach on January 25th, 2021 What's a fantasy? By Freud to Ludacris, it's been an elusive idea, indicating both an escape from reality and an expression of hidden desire. In culture, dream works just like a mirror: It reflects who we are, but in addition, it shapes what we become. Love it or despise it, American culture's sexual fantasy of the moment is Fifty Shades of Grey. Since Random House bought the rights to the trilogy in 2012, the series has sold well over 100 million copies worldwide. Trailers for the film adaptation of the first book have been viewed 250 million times, according to an advertisement aired in early February; it is expected to gross at least million at the box office in its opening weekend. And that means the Fifty Shades dream is going to become all the stronger. Yes, the story will likely reach an even bigger crowd, but more importantly, it is going to be told in a new, visual form. When the movie comes out, the Fifty Colours version of hot, kinky sex will become explicit and exact, no longer dependent upon the imaginations of readers. Early reports state the movie shows at least 20 full minutes of gender, although it's only rated R. The story is rather easy. Anastasia Steele, a middle-class senior at Washington State University Vancouver, meets Christian Grey, an incredibly handsome, debonair 27-year-old multi-millionaire CEO. They fall in love, hard and fast. Theirs is a romance filled with passion and drama, and they wind up living the traditional American fantasy: love, marriage, and a child. What is not so conventional is their sex. Early on in the very first book, Ana discovers that Christian has a"dark secret": He is obsessed with BDSM--a condensed abbreviation for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism. This is the fundamental tension of these books: Ana loves Christian, but she does not need to be his submissive; Christian enjoys Ana, but he is turned on by abusive sex. As many experienced BDSM practitioners emphasized to me, there are healthful, ethical ways to consensually combine pain and sex. All of them need self-knowledge, communication abilities, and emotional maturity in order to earn the sex safe and mutually pleasing. The issue is that Fifty Shades associates hot sex with violence, but without any of this context. Occasionally, Ana says yes to sex she's uncomfortable with because she is too shy to speak her mind, or because she is afraid of shedding Christian; she gives permission when he wants to inflict pain, however that doesn't stop her from being harmed. For more details check out grinin elli tonu izle (watch fifty shades of gray).Like it? Share it! More by this author |