Fifty Shades of No

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Fans everywhere are anticipating the “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie premiering next month. For those of you that aren’t aware, “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E.L. James, is an erotic story where Anastasia Steele signs a sex contract with Christian Grey, allowing him to perform various devious sexual acts.

I’ll admit I tried to read the book to see what the hype was and with every chapter it sent me into a deep, dark pit of hatred; the writing was terrible, a piece of bread was more thrilling than Ana, Christian was an abusive jerk, and the sex scenes were written like a teenager who just learned about sex. What really made me detest this book was the tampon scene in which Anastasia is experiencing her period and Christian wants to have intercourse with her. He then proceeds to rip the tampon from her vagina and toss it into the toilet. Anastasia did nothing about this invasive action other than think some shocking exclamation.  It was bad enough that Christian was not only abusing the sex contract and Anastasia before, but now he had had violated her privacy to the utmost degree. Furthermore, he performed this action without her consent and only to satisfy his primal lust.

Firstly, Anastasia’s menstrual cycle should have been an exception in the contract. Yes, some women are aroused during their periods, but that doesn’t automatically give consent. Consent is needed regardless of the situation. Second, this action is the epitome of Christian’s feelings towards Anastasia; he doesn’t see her as a woman, but an object. She is a toy to fulfill his needs and to abuse because of his past with a rapist who showed him the ways of BDSM by using him. Instead of seeking professional help for his relentless actions and undeniable trauma, he follows in the path of the rapist and uses abuse in sex as therapy.  Third, the toilet is going to clog and that will be a mess to clean up. Fourth, there is blood everywhere. Allow that image to soak in your mind and it doesn’t help that afterwards they take a bath together.

Thankfully, the tampon scene is not included in the movie. However, fans will still be treated to Christian’s dominating and controlling personality as well as Anastasia’s extremely passive attitude.

There are tons of books and topics to base a movie on. Why they would make a movie about this book and its incorrect portrayals of BDSM, abusive sex partners who have no respect and women who willingly go along with everything, is beyond me. I understand that it’s a book about sex and sex sells; it was the one major ideal reinforced in my media courses. I also understand that we all have our dark sexual fantasies, which is fine; it’s our imagination, it tends to wander. Honestly, any form of media about sex is fine, but to produce a movie that shows more harm to our society than good makes no sense. I can imagine after viewing this movie, some people will take away the notion that women will always want it and that men are supposed to be abusive. These aren’t lessons that our society should be taught because they are damaging lies.

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So tell me, what are your views on “Fifty Shades of Grey”?