Statement by NCSE’s Executive Director, Dawn Hawkins Washington, DC – The Fifty Shades of Grey series will continue with the latest installment, Grey, which the
By Hilary Lewis, from The Hollywood Reporter 6/11/2015 Time Magazine The National Center on Sexual Exploitation, which previously condemned the Fifty Shades of Grey movie, is
More so than ever, we are seeing an increase in sexual violence against women. This is not to say that sexual violence does not happen
Final Thoughts on My Internship with NCSE Coming to the end of one chapter in life really makes you think back on what it is
At first glance, there was nothing special about the CUA Anscombe Society’s Valentine’s Day campaign. With a simple banner and a table filled with desserts, we could have easily passed for any of the other student groups tabling in the CUA student center, except for the fact that the banner read “#50CentsNot50Shades” and on the table also lay graphics like this one. It was our cause – spreading awareness about the harms of the movie Fifty Shades of Grey and raising money for a local shelter for victims of domestic violence – that set us radically apart from any other fundraiser in the week leading up to Valentine’s Day.
Fraternity students at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) recently transformed Facebook into a tool to sexually exploit female peers. The police received a tip regarding the private Facebook page, and what they discovered was disturbing.
I feel compelled to tell people about what happened tonight. We were working at Full Moon BBQ in Fultondale, AL when a regular customer comes
University of Illinois at Chicago freshman, Mohammad Hossain, violently assaulted a woman in order to re-enact scenes from “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Washington, DC – “ Fifty Shades of Grey’s” $81.7 million dollar domestic box office record is the result of the media firestorm and a slick, deceptive marketing campaign by Universal Pictures, which peaked the American public’s curiosity to see the film. The film is not the love story it was advertised to be. Rather, as the millions who flocked to the film learned, “Fifty Shades” is nothing more than a porn film filled with hardcore sex and misogyny targeted to women by including a romantic narrative and fancy soundtrack.
Feminist scholar and activist, Gail Dines, reviews Fifty Shades of Grey: “I was prepared for a bad movie that would make any feminist enraged at the way Grey manipulates and controls women. What I wasn’t prepared for was the way the predatory behavior of Grey in the books looks so much worse when translated into images.”
Critics weigh-in, and “Fifty Shades of Grey” does not get good reviews.
Diana Parry, an associate professor of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, conducted research that found women who read “Fifty Shades of Grey” moved to consume sexually explicit material online, such as pornography.
