A group dedicated to opposing pornography this week encouraged like-minded people to file complaints against Harvard University’s “Sex Week” on the grounds that it was encouraging rape.
The new trailer for Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Fifty Shades of Grey has angered viewers in the US after it was aired at 8am during NBC’s Today programme.
The “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie trailer is “absolutely a misrepresentation” of what is in the book, said Gail Dines, a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston. “It advertises it as a love affair and erotic sex — what it’s really about is abuse and violence, and the grooming of a young girl into sadistic sex,” said Ms. Dines, who is also a founding member of Stop Porn Culture.
The newly released trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey deceives the public with a visually appealing melodramatic love story that romanticizes and normalizes sexual violence.
In response to the release of the highly-anticipated “Fifty Shades of Grey” trailer, non-profit organization Morality in Media has issued a statement, citing that the preview “deceives the public” by romanticizing and normalizing sexual violence.
The trailer for Fifty Shades of Gray “deceives the public with a visually appealing melodramatic love story that romanticizes and normalizes sexual violence.”
Fifty Shades of Grey has taken the world by storm. The well-oiled PR machine they have hired would have you think that all women want to be treated as slaves and that “NO” really means “YES!”
Our pornified culture is leading to an overwhelming acceptance of sexual violence.
The White House’s report and video does little to address the causes of rape culture in the United States, particularly one that is rarely addressed in these types of politicized campaigns: porn.
Two years ago, in the UK, a 10-year-old boy raped another 10-year-old boy in an elementary school. The case is now in court. Karl Scholz, prosecuting attorney, said, “It is almost certain that in this case what was being done was to act out what had been seen in pornographic material.”
A boy of ten raped a classmate in the toilets of his primary school as he ‘acted out’ scenes from online pornography, a court was told.
This week’s decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirming the conviction of hardcore pornographer Ira Isaacs serves as a reminder that distribution of hardcore adult pornography is still illegal under federal law in America.
