Indecency in Fifty Shades of Grey Film My personal definition of indecency is inappropriate acts or language to a certain degree of offensive behavior that can make someone feel uncomfortable. In short, anything I would not want my child to view I would consider inappropriate and indecent. Indecency can range from the exposure of skin based on clothing, such as lingerie, to the utterance of certain words like “fuck” or “cunt”. This definition suits what the film, Fifty Shades of Grey represents in terms of sex and promotion of violence. In the movie, Fifty Shades of Grey, the focus is based on the strange relationship of a powerful business mogul named Christian Grey and a young, innocent looking woman named Anastasia Steele. In the beginning, it is made clear that Ana is not a sexual person and a virgin before meeting Grey who is a lot darker than meets the eye. Grey partakes in a type of sexual intercourse known as BDSM which stands for Bondage Discipline Sadism and Masochism, where he is the dominant in seek of a submissive partner with a no feelings attached mentality, in this case being the inexperienced Ana. The representation of a relationship in which the …show more content…
Grey’s persona is based on the fact that he inflicts forceful pain onto women and they will eventually like it. However, in many instances throughout the film, Ana voices her sadness, reservations, and rejection of enduring the physical pain during intercourse which raises the question of rape. Subjecting a person to being hit, choked, burned, and tied up is supposed to demonstrate a particular form of erotica to the audience, however to many, can be viewed as torture. This type of on screen representation is saying that as a woman, being physically hurt, particularly during intercourse, is acceptable and
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The story of Alice Sebold’s memoir begins with her as a freshman at Syracuse University and the scene in which she is brutally raped. Sebold writes in vivid detail on how the rape went throughout the beginning of the chapter. She was walking back to her dormitory through a park during nighttime when she was suddenly assaulted and raped by a black man. After the traumatizing experience, she makes her back to her dorm where she told her friends about the rape. One of her roommate’s black friends gives her a hug in order to apologize on behalf of the black men and to make her not judge them as rapists due to the incident. After meeting with her friends, they take her emergency room. A police officer later tells her that she was “lucky” because a female was also raped at the same place but had been murdered and dismembered instead. Sebold soon officially starts her story after arriving back to her home in Pennsylvania with her mother by writing, “My life was over; my life had just begun” (33), implying that her life has been dramatically altered and wouldn’t be the same again.
Consensual encounter is nothing more than a conversation between a cop and a individual in which the person is not being detained or pulled over. If the officer notices something suspicious he can search you and if he finds something illegal he can arrest you. For example, if john is at a gas station and a cop says hello, he can either say hello back or just walk away. Well John says hello which sparks a conversation between the two. The cop notices he can't stay balanced and his words are slurred so he conducts a search and finds weed on him and open beer cans on the floor of his car. The officer then arrested him and took him to jail. During court, the judge denies the claim that John was searched in a illegal stop-and-frisk. The judge said
In the day and age where online dating and meeting is becoming more common, it’s easy to alter how you are perceived. You can disclose details about yourself you believe are attractive and withhold/hide information about yourself you believe other people would reject you for. The Lenient Thesis provides that it is only a minor wrong to deceive another person into sex by misleading them about certain personal features such as natural hair color, occupation, or romantic intentions. This thesis does exclude run-of-the-mill deception like someone’s sexual history, t.v show preferences, or how funny one finds the other. In “Sex, Lies, and Consent”, Tom Dougherty seeks to argue against the lenient thesis, and instead that deceiving another person
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Obscene is defined as “disgusting to the senses, repulsive”. California law defines obscene matter as “taken as a whole, that the average person applying contemporary statewide standards, appeals to the prurient interested, that taken as a whole depicts, or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and that taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”. Obscenity refers to the examination of books, periodicals, plays, films, television and radio programs, news reports, and other communication media. The objectionable material may be considered immoral or obscene, heretical or blasphemous, seditious or treasonable, or injurious to the national security.
“Sex doesn't have to look like sex; other objects and activities can stand in for sexual organs and sex acts.” (Foster 144) Thomas Foster, the author of How To Read Literature Like a Professor, wrote that line in the chapter “it's all about sex…” with the meaning behind it that anything can have a sexual component. Things such as “Tall buildings, landscapes, a bowl, or even keys,” Foster wrote. This meant that any other can use anything they want to represent sex in a story, while sort of hiding it.
Effects of Adultery Everyone sins in their life, some more than others, and sins can be fixed, but some sins stay with people forever. In the book, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are examples of people sinning and how it affected their lives. Hester and dimmesdale both committed a sin that hurt them in many ways. Throughout the book they became nervous, stressed, and heartless.
Believe it or not, one in three women have experienced being raped at a party while being intoxicated or unconscious. Because of the recent events involving sexual assault all over the world, many conversations and controversies have come to light, showing a disturbing lack of clarity about the topic of consent. Sexual assault is when someone is coerced into a sexual act or forced. Consent is when someone basically gives you permission or they agree to do something with you, in this case they agree to have sexual intercourse with you. But, if someone were to give you consent while they are intoxicated then that is actually not consent. With so many people not knowing what consent is or how to clarify it, a group of young people, ages 18 and
With society today, people say that things are socially or politically incorrect. There is no law stating that it is unlawful to do these things. In today’s society, if one had meaningless sex with another person, they would be considered a whore, or a man-whore. If a person took a pill and overdosed on it, they would be considered an addict. In these two novels anyone can do whatever they want and nothing is considered politically incorrect .
Recent studies have shown that more than fifty percent of Americans divorce because of infidelity and adultery in their marriage (Solomon and Teagno). H.M. Coakley directed the film, Adulterers, in 2015 to show his audience how marriages function when there is infidelity and adultery involved. The film is based on a true story and it portrays a family where a wife performs infidelity and adultery. In agreement with the ten commandments of the Bible, a spouse should not cheat or lie to their companion. Ashley did not abide by those commandments, so she eventually found out her punishment because God cannot bear destruction.
IN 2015, the erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey written by British writer E L James was transferred to screens, earning record winning sales and viewership, partly because many readers and non-readers anticipated a visual delivery of the mind-blowing scenes they conjured as they read or friend told tales of its content. These work are just two, in a sea of millions of aphrodisiac-type novels and movies that sell thousands of sexual encounters they pass of as real, even though you have come to accept that the chances achieving that even vaguely resembles your sex life on screen or in romantic novels are next to nil. Below, All Woman readers, by sharing their own stories throw light on fallacies created by writers of romance material:
It portrays an emotion that the intended audience should know well, a deep sadness, due to the fact that sexual assault is a traumatic experience that can take a severe emotional toll on victims. Moreover, the shadow that hides the young woman’s face gives her a sense of shame, which is another emotion that many sexual assault victims likely deal with. This is one of the reasons why sexual assault victims should seek help. By reaching out to a professional, they can get rid of the highly detrimental emotions that they have been dealing with in silence. Overall, the image makes a clear pathological appeal due to the fact that it is clear the young woman is unhappy, which shows that the topic is emotional to some and should be thoughtfully considered, and also gives the intended audience a feeling they can relate to. Thus, the image is effective for the intended audience because it is realistic and relatable, leaving the audience with a sense that they are not alone in their struggle and that the emotions they have are a natural response to being sexually
The BDSM community is buzzing over the effects of the release of the Fifty Shades of Grey series. BDSM is a physical, mental, and sometimes sexual power role play or lifestyle that goes on between two consenting adults. There has been a large stigma over BDSM and other kinks for an exceptionally long time; the Fifty Shades franchise has started to break down that stigma with little resistance from the mass public. There is a great divide of people in the community who like the movie and what it has brought and who do not like the movie for how it portrays the kink. A common acronym in the BDSM community is SSC (SSC 1), it shows that we care about safety more than anything.
The movie, Fifty Shades of Grey, has a lot of portrayals of sexuality. Basically, there are two main characters. One of them is a female literature student named Anastasia Steele, and the other one is the young male billionaire Christian Grey.
To some, pornography is nothing more than a few pictures of scantily clad Women in seductive poses. But pornography has become much more than just Photographs of nude women. Computer technology is providing child molesters and child pornographers with powerful new tools for victimizing children. Pornography as "the sexually explicit depiction of persons, in words or images, Sexual arousal on the part of the consumer of such materials. No one can prove those films with graphic sex or violence has a harmful effect on viewers. But there seems to be little doubt that films do have some effect on society and that all of us live with such effects.