Sometime in the next few years, hopefully sooner provided my financial situation improves and I can be allowed to finally get my own “man cave” before I get way too old to have one, I will have a “playroom” which I will keep locked. Inside that room will be a few curios of expensive 12-inch movie action figures from Hot Toys, possibly all the 6-inch Star Wars action figures from Hasbro if they keep making more, everything still inside their wrapped boxes along with several ultimate collector Star Wars Lego sets on display.
I will be exactly like Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) in that clip from the upcoming film adaptation out Feb. 13th of the first book of author E.L. James’ bestselling sadomasochistic trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey" (2015) where he shows his girlfriend Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) his “playroom.”
The moment I prepare to show my girlfriend, if have one, my locked playroom, I won’t be surprised if she says exactly what Anastasia asks Christian.
“Like your Xbox and stuff,” she asks.
And yet I will NOT be anything like Christian Grey. True, I will be probably better off financially but I won’t be a millionaire CEO of a large company. I won’t own any “toys” that one either order from those leather s/m stores off the Internet to keep their identities secret like bondage equipment, blindfolds, posturing collars, an assortment of whips, crops and canes and whatever else the movie character Christian Grey has in his secret “Red Room of Pain.”
Like the "Sex and the City" movie (2008) which attracted female fans of the show and guys who either have a fetish looking at women in high heels or enjoy wearing them, I predict "Fifty Shades of Grey" will attract everyone from those who want to know what all the kinky hype is about, women and men who engage in the same sexual activities with their significant others as the two characters do in James’ novels, to women fans of James’ books who claim how much this book trilogy saved their doomed marriages and boyfriend/girlfriend relationships in the bedroom behind closed doors.
As much as s/m bondage enthusiasts, however, hope that this film will finally bring their mostly hidden alternative lifestyle out in the open and hope we “vanilla” people accept their questionable tastes the way a high number of states in America are accepting gay marriage, sadomasochistic activity is still taboo. It is still politically incorrect and is not the kind of conversation one discusses in public.
In this era of “I am Woman! Hear me roar!” and “Women rule!” I don’t believe every woman wants to be sexually submissive to their man.
Even Grey star Jamie Dornan doesn’t believe it in an interview with Elle UK.
“I can understand why people say tying a woman up and spanking her is misogynistic,” Dornan said. “But actually, more men are submissive than women. Very powerful men.”
I have a feeling he may be right. Sorry guys.
©2/11/15
I will be exactly like Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) in that clip from the upcoming film adaptation out Feb. 13th of the first book of author E.L. James’ bestselling sadomasochistic trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey" (2015) where he shows his girlfriend Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) his “playroom.”
The moment I prepare to show my girlfriend, if have one, my locked playroom, I won’t be surprised if she says exactly what Anastasia asks Christian.
“Like your Xbox and stuff,” she asks.
And yet I will NOT be anything like Christian Grey. True, I will be probably better off financially but I won’t be a millionaire CEO of a large company. I won’t own any “toys” that one either order from those leather s/m stores off the Internet to keep their identities secret like bondage equipment, blindfolds, posturing collars, an assortment of whips, crops and canes and whatever else the movie character Christian Grey has in his secret “Red Room of Pain.”
Therein lies my problem with the apparent sexually submissive hold James’ books have on women today. Maybe it’s just me but if after a few dates I showed my future girlfriend my “Red Room of Pain” I’d like to think she will immediately bolt out the door and never want to see me again. I mean what woman wants to be tied up, blindfolded and spanked by their man in this era where women are taking on almost the same, if not all the take charge roles men play?I won’t lie and say to quote the film’s tagline that I won’t be “curious” to see "Fifty Shades of Grey" opening weekend. The phrase “controversy sells” goes without saying in this case as I am fairly certain the film will literally blow away "American Sniper" (no bad pun intended) from the number one spot at the box office.
Maybe it’s just me but I have way too much respect for women and would not feel comfortable doing what Christian Grey will do to Anastasia for a combined 20 minutes of the film’s 125-minute running time.
Like the "Sex and the City" movie (2008) which attracted female fans of the show and guys who either have a fetish looking at women in high heels or enjoy wearing them, I predict "Fifty Shades of Grey" will attract everyone from those who want to know what all the kinky hype is about, women and men who engage in the same sexual activities with their significant others as the two characters do in James’ novels, to women fans of James’ books who claim how much this book trilogy saved their doomed marriages and boyfriend/girlfriend relationships in the bedroom behind closed doors.
As much as s/m bondage enthusiasts, however, hope that this film will finally bring their mostly hidden alternative lifestyle out in the open and hope we “vanilla” people accept their questionable tastes the way a high number of states in America are accepting gay marriage, sadomasochistic activity is still taboo. It is still politically incorrect and is not the kind of conversation one discusses in public.
In this era of “I am Woman! Hear me roar!” and “Women rule!” I don’t believe every woman wants to be sexually submissive to their man.
Even Grey star Jamie Dornan doesn’t believe it in an interview with Elle UK.
“I can understand why people say tying a woman up and spanking her is misogynistic,” Dornan said. “But actually, more men are submissive than women. Very powerful men.”
I have a feeling he may be right. Sorry guys.
©2/11/15
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