Ohhhhh, these poooooor, naive young women.. Wake up, Joan..
Posted on 12/18/2014 11:48:14 AM PST by Morgana
Joan Collins, who became one of the most glamorous actresses of the 1980s in her steamy role as Alexis Carrington in Dynasty, is revealing that beneath the Hollywood glitz she was repressing a secret: She had been raped. And she's concerned that the misogyny of porn five decades later will victimize another generation of naive young women.
The British-born star is speaking out about being raped after her attacker showed her hardcore pornography and drugged her at the tender age of 17. She went on to marry him.
Collins says that her favorite actor, Maxwell Reed, invited the teen to his apartment, where he gave her a drink and some reading material while he went into the other room. “The books were porn, which I’d never seen before,” Collins said. “Hardcore porn.”
As her head began to swim, she realized “he had drugged my drink.”
“The next thing I knew, I was out flat on the sofa in that living room and he was raping me,” she said. “It felt so horrible.”
Reed, a matinee idol of his day, continued to ask her out. “It wasn’t my fault but I didn’t know, [so] I went out with him,” she said. In a short time, he asked her to marry him. “I really hated him, but I was so filled with guilt.”
She claimed over the years that Reed became violent with her and tried to traffic her. “ I found out how really abusive he was - I used to be physically abused and physically assaulted, and the final straw was when he tried to sell me for £10,000,” she says.
Collins is speaking out as part of a new documentary, Brave Miss World, filmed by 1998 Miss World Linor Abargil, who was raped at knifepoint six weeks before being crowned Miss World.
Joan Collins warns that today's ubiquitous culture of degrading and violent pornography is preparing another generation for similar exploitation.
“I think a lot of what we see today in terms of exploitation of women in porn, for example - they are portrayed just as objects and objects that are unobtainable for most women to look like,” she said. “There’s a lot of brutality in porn apparently, and it’s very hardcore, and I think that a lot of men feel that's acceptable.”
Collins' anecdotal observations would be supported by experts, who study smut's effects on human behavior. Mary Anne Layden, the director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology program in the University of Pennsylvania's psychiatry department, found that males who consume pornography were more likely to view rape as more acceptable than men who do not. “Males who viewed sexual violence obtained higher scores both on scales measuring acceptance of interpersonal violence and the rape myth [the belief that women actually enjoy rape and suffer few negative consequences], when compare to males who viewed either a physically violent or neutral film,” she wrote in a paper. “The increase in attitudes supporting sexual violence following exposure to pornography is greater if the pornography is violent than if it is non-violent.”
She added, “A similar effect is seen even when the pornography is not violent. Males who are shown non-violent scenes that sexually objectified and degraded women and were then exposed to material that depicted rape indicated that the rape victim experienced pleasure and ‘got what she wanted.'”
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children blames porn for more than 4,500 British children becoming sex offenders in just three years.
The sentiments expressed in Brave Miss World represent a sea-change for Collins, who appeared in a number of softcore pornographic films in the late '70s – including two based on the books of her younger sister, Jackie Collins. In 1983, at the age of 50, the Emmy-nominated actress posed nude for Playboy.
Now she offers advice to young girls on how to avoid a fate like hers.
“I just want to say to any other girls who are out there - don’t let it happen, don’t go to somebody’s house, don’t let them give you a drink which could possibly be spiked, and get these animals behind bars so they don’t do it again,” she said.
Feminists have derided similar advice as “slut-shaming,” claiming that telling women to avoid being rendered unconscious blames the victim.
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She went on to marry him.
I stopped reading there
Ohhhhh, these poooooor, naive young women.. Wake up, Joan..
was it Bill Clinton or Bill Cosby?
Men are not the only ones responsible for Porn.
Read on.. It is amazing the stupid things we do when we are young.
I’m sure every FReeper here was “young and stupid”.
Maybe Joan should not have made the porn — just sayin!
Maybe the liberal utopia of no hope, no job, no importance and ‘no matter’ contributes to rape, among other perversions.
Nah, doing nothing is great for people...
When Smiley Virus is much much older and *gasp* has children of her own she will do EXACTLY what Madonna did. Regret she ever did something that stupid.
You should hear how Madonna has to explain to her 4 kids what she does on stage.
“...in terms of exploitation of women in porn, for example - they are portrayed just as objects and objects that are unobtainable for most women to look like,” she said.”
What, did someone give you the floor so you could stand high on your moral perch?
That blade has two edges.
Women don’t objectify men for their earnings or wealth?
Or have you just gotten good at telling the courts your stories of woe and just due when divorcing them?
Most who are in the porn/sex worker industry have been victims of past sex abuse.
Oh, and porn didn’t create the mentality of rape.
That responsibility lies solely with the perpetrator.
He is an A-hole and someone who takes advantage of others.
And that in a nutshell is the liberal mindset. Right and wrong, good and evil is blurred by the "I didn't know".
My friends, God has put into the human soul the ability to discern good from bad and what is evil from what is good. It is a conscience decision to blur the distinction and the more you rationalize these things the more distant you place yourself from the truth and from the source of all good, God.
“he had drugged my drink.”
“The next thing I knew, I was out flat on the sofa in that living room and he was raping me,”
“I really hated him”
“over the years that Reed became violent with her and tried to traffic her. “
“I found out how really abusive he was”
” I used to be physically abused and physically assaulted”
” he tried to sell me for £10,000,”
“was raped at knifepoint”
and then.........
She went on to marry him.
I was
It’s somewhat difficult to see Joan Collins as anybody’s victim, and I don’t. I think she just needs a fresh dose of attention, the way Madonna and Cher do from time to time.
I'm callin BS
It ain't the same FR it used to be that's for sure....
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