Is 50 Shades of GREY a true story?Posted by Just Bach on January 25th, 2021 What is a dream? From Freud to Ludacris, it's been an elusive notion, indicating both an escape from reality and an expression of hidden desire. In culture, fantasy works like a mirror: It reflects that we are, but in addition, it shapes what we get. Love it or despise it, American culture's sexual fantasy of the moment is Fifty Shades of Grey. Considering that Random House bought the rights to the trilogy in 2012, the series has sold well over 100 million copies worldwide. Trailers for the movie adaptation of the first publication have been viewed 250 million times, according to an advertisement aired in early February; it's expected to gross at least million at the box office in its opening weekend. And that means the Fifty Shades fantasy is about to become all the more influential. Yes, the narrative will probably reach a much larger audience, 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 precise, no longer determined by the imaginations of viewers. Early reports state the film shows at least 20 full minutes of gender, though it's only rated R. The story is rather simple. 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 love filled with passion and drama, and they end up living the traditional American fantasy: love, union, and a child. What's not so conventional is their sex. Early in the very first book, Ana finds that Christian has a"dark secret": He's obsessed with BDSM--a condensed abbreviation for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism. This is the central tension of these novels: Ana enjoys Christian, but she does not need to be his submissive; Christian enjoys Ana, but he's turned on by abusive sex. As many experienced BDSM professionals highlighted to me, there are healthful, ethical ways to consensually combine pain and sex. All of them require self-knowledge, communication skills, and emotional maturity to be able to earn the sex safe and mutually pleasing. The problem is that Fifty Shades casually associates hot sex with violence, but without any of this context. Sometimes, Ana says yes 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 would like to inflict pain, yet that does not prevent her from being harmed. For more details check out 720p.Like it? Share it! More by this author |