Posted on 07/31/2014 1:54:53 PM PDT by Morgana
There is an radio Talk show hosts that talks about the problems of porn addiction. One of the most serious is that the thrill does wear off and you need a fix that is more perverse to get the same thrill. Consequently what begins as voyeurism escalate in a short period of time to BDSM.
Having read the wiki plot summary, the book is a woman's fantasy on many levels. A college senior who works at a hardware store hooks up with a handsome, 27-year-old billionaire entrepreneur, who dominates her, showers her with presents, and becomes totally obsessed with her.
Look at women's romance novels and note how many are about some wealthy/powerful man who falls for some ordinary woman. How many of them involve the woman being "ravished" by the dominant man who just cannot control himself in his desire for her.
This has been going on "under the radar" for a VERY long time.
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somewhere, more than a year ago I saw a comment to
the effect that the real purpose, or one of them of
the Fifty Shades “book” was to promote political
submission; I regret I cannot give credit.
Maybe the author misunderstood when the defenders of the book claimed to be Christian. Sounds like they might have just been identifying with the character in the book.
I was speaking in terms of the general population accepting LGBT activism not FR. But I do find it curious that while most here (I think) claim to be okay with gays ‘keeping it to themselves’ they are not quite as tolerant of heterosexual fantasies.
Overall this Fifty Shades thing strikes me as more of a feminist/pc controversy. They hate that a fictional woman dares to want to play a ‘submissive’ role. Introducing the ‘how Christian is it?’ angle is a red herring for whether it deserves special scorn. It isn’t particularly more or less antichristian than typical trashy romance novels nobody cares to think about.
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Changing what you call a disorder that leads to disgusting, anti-Christ, anti-Christian, perversion doesn't change what the resulting perversion really is.
Just so you're aware of the facts as opposed to the popular fantasy.
I have stated so many times before, there is nothing gay about a male lifestyle of vectoring diseases, often by the fecal oral route with another sick male. The marketing of this monstrous public health threat can mostly be attributed to Hollywood.
Don’t buy it. The male homosexual lifestyle is at the top of the list of threats to our children and public health.
I absolutely agree with you.
The argument I was using is that which I use when the subject is brought up in a non-Christian setting. It’s for people for whom the moral objections are meaningless.
That’s why it was preceded by *If*.
This country was at its greatest when a whole bunch of stuff that is legal now was illegal, thus defeating the argument that making moral stuff like that legal has no ramifications.
It does because it never was about simply lifestyle choices, but rather about tearing down the moral fabric of our society.
Their argument of what we do in the privacy of our own bedrooms is nobody’s business was the first step on the slippery slope and a whole bunch of people who were wusses and didn’t want to be accused of being *intolerant* caved.
And look where we are now.
How sexy. An S&M porn flick for Valentines Day! How far this society has fallen.
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I could not agree more. Well said.
EXACTLY.
My Doc has virtually said the same thing about them .
If we’ve decided that LBGT relationships are none of our business we have absolutely no justification getting in the way of someone elses adult consensual BDSM relationship just because we think its weird and creepy. Frankly most of the anger toward these books is from puritanical feminists who feel every single woman, even all the fictional ones must behave like their idea of an assertive brash dominant ‘real woman’.When did "we" decide that "LBGT relationships are none of our business"?
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