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.
So are most married men! (or doesn't that count?)
Excuses are like elbows; most folks got a couple. People including sluts have volition, she is responsible for her actions.
Deserves sympathy: http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-just-executed-more-than-150-women-in-fallujah-2014-12
Not so much: Joan Collins
Yep, me too.
Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Didn’t this freak spend a lot of time around Michael Jackson? Like enough time to witness this countries first wave if unaccompanied minors?
“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.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Just stay home, fanatcize, feel guiltyy, deprived, then go become a nun.
No problem!
( Has anyone ever heard of balance? Yech!)
Only one addage needed. Learn to chose your friends properly.
Exactly. It’s another Lena Dunham. “I didn’t realize I was raped until a friend told me I might have been” Huh?
I’ve never been able to figure out whether men or women are more shallow.
Women judge a man primarily on his wallet. (More accurately status, which in our society is based mainly on income.)
Men judge women primarily on their appearance.
The classic example of this paradigm is of course the strip club, where sad women exploit sad men financially by pretending to be interested in them.
Honestly, I can understand this sad state of affairs.
A woman who hadn’t slept with a guy goes out with one she really adores. He drugs her and has sex, but she is fully aware of this happening. She won’t be believed, and her honor was taken. She won’t be wanted by another man now that she’s not a virgin, so rather than be an old maid, she feels it’s the only alternative. At least he will now have to take care of her, she thinks.
If she had told her parents, they would possibly have not believed her and/or punished her for allowing it (likely not thinking she was drugged).
As a man, I feel ashamed for what we put women through.
What the educators (most of them women) are trying to perpetrate on the little kids in our public schools can be hardly less than porn made common and easily discussed as normal behavior.
It’s almost as if feminists want to break women on the rack. They’re nuts.
That is definitely my understanding, as well.
It is their attempt to convert a bad thing into something productive, but, sadly, it hurts all involved.
Joan must not have received the memo from the feminists.
Contrary to being widely deplored as objectifying, degrading, and exploiting women back when I was in grad school in the late 70’s, porn is now presented as a liberating experience that allows a woman to express her sexuality and her actual dominance over men.
I’m going to go heave now.
Joan Collins in.....The Stud. (with Lee Horsley)
Do you suffer from white guilt too?
I would say what - porn is a romantic fantasy for men - the male equivalent of the Harlequin romances for women.
It fulfills a primal male fantasy - making love to a beautiful woman. That’s all it is and guys who think it has anything to do with reality, I pity them.
No woman wants to be treated as a hooker or a sex object. And if a man can’t tell the difference between fantasy and real life, he has no business dating or seeking a serious relationship.
“Didn’t this freak spend a lot of time around Michael Jackson?”
I think that was Elizabeth Taylor.
I question Joan Collins’ judgment - a woman shouldn’t be in a relationship with a man who doesn’t respect her.
I don’t know about Maxwell Reed but her marrying him anyway says a lot more about her than it does about him.
A woman should walk away from a man who can’t show self-control. And a man incapable of it will never be a good husband.
DUH
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.
Yet Joan is correct in identifying feminism and the slut culture for these rapes. Madanna and Cher would NEVER own up to that.
Speak for yourself.
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