Ryk Goddard interviews MTR on links between Fifty Shades and violence against women A coalition of organisations combating abuse want you donate $50 rather than watch 50 Shades darker. Melinda Tankard Reist explains where the lines are between romance, fantasy and the facts. See also: Nothing says true love like getting a belting and being […]
Violence is the New Black: Fifty Shades and the Glamorisation of Abuse Melinda Tankard Reist ABC Religion and Ethics 9 Feb 2017 “Every fairy tale has a dark side.” That’s the motto of the just released film Fifty Shades Darker, the second in the trilogy of films adapted from E.L. James’s Fifty Shades pulp fiction […]
Sadistic Romance by GAIL DINES The porn industry must be throwing a fit right now. The adult book Fifty Shades of Grey has sold over twenty million copies in record time, and sales are still going strong. How did E.L. James, a first-time author who was a television executive, manage to pull off a feat […]
