Women's Shelters Launch Boycott of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Movie Sequel

Steve Weatherbe : Feb 1, 2017
LifeSiteNews.com

"Fifty Shades promotes the idea of violence as romantic. But women in violent relationships don't end up like the heroine in the books and movie. They end up dead." -Dr. Dines

[LifeSiteNews] Feminists, women's shelters, and anti-pornography groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia have started a boycott against the soft-porn BDSM movie 50 Shades Darker, claiming it glamorizes male-on-female violence and oppression. (Photo via LifeSiteNews.com)

The U.S. boycott is led by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation and Culture Reframed. The latter group's founder and president, Wheelock College sociologist Dr. Gail Dines, told LifeSiteNews that the books and movies appeal to teenage and young adult women and "socialize them to believe that normal sex involves the oppression, dehumanization, and degradation of women by men."

On its webpage, Culture Reframed carries the statistical claims that the average age that boys first view pornography is 11, that 35 percent of all Internet downloads are pornographic, and, most tellingly, that 88 percent of the scenes in "top-rented and downloaded porn contain violence against women."

The film...

Continue reading here.