What is a fantasy? By Freud to Ludacris, it has been an elusive idea, suggesting both an escape from reality and an expression of hidden desire. In culture, fantasy works just like a mirror: It reflects who we are, but it also shapes what we become.
Love it or despise it, American culture's sexual fantasy of this second 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 film adaptation of the first book have been viewed 250 million times, based on 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 going to become even more influential. Yes, the narrative will likely reach a much bigger audience, but more importantly, it is going to be told in a new, visual form. After the film comes out, the Fifty Colours version of hot, kinky sex will become explicit and precise, no longer dependent upon the imaginations of viewers. Early reports state the movie shows at least 20 full minutes of gender, though it's just rated R.
The story is rather easy. Anastasia Steele, a middle-class senior at Washington State University Vancouver, matches Christian Grey, a very 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 conventional American fantasy: love, union, and a kid.
What's not so standard is their gender. Early on in the first publication, Ana discovers 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 fundamental tension of these books: Ana loves Christian, but she doesn't want to be his submissive; Christian loves Ana, but he's turned on by abusive sex.
As many experienced BDSM practitioners emphasized to me, there are healthy, ethical tactics to consensually combine pain and sex. All of these require self-knowledge, communication skills, and emotional maturity to be able to earn the sex secure and mutually gratifying. The problem is that Fifty Shades casually associates hot sex with violence, but without any of the context. Occasionally, Ana says yes sex she's uncomfortable with because she's too shy to talk her thoughts, or because she's afraid of losing Christian; she provides permission when he would like to inflict pain, however that doesn't prevent her from being hurt.
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Mayer Molloy Joined: January 27th, 2021 Articles Posted: 215
