Fifty Shades of Grey depicts RAPE and has been criticized by BDSM advocates

[nadinbrzezinski]

263. I will join the person you are having this discussion with

There is a rape, but not what you are thinking. It happens to be the main male...paper thin character who was raped as a young boy by an older woman. Paper thin is really giving him more heft than he has by the by.

The sex acts between the two main characters are consensual. I use the word character with trepidation since both are so badly written and developed it is not even worthy of a first year creative writing class with a student who has never, ever written fiction before it matters little what genre the student decides to write. Yes, it is that bad.

I understand why you are reluctant to read it...but in this factual thing you are actually wrong, and so are many journals if you are getting that from journals like everything else, this scene is so badly written it leads to...at least for me, not caring what happens to the "characters."

If those journals are doing this, they are misrepresenting the book, which would be a crime back when I was still involved in Academia. So perhaps these academics did not read this material either. Help me with the word here, academic ffffrrraaauuud I think

Of course, why would this be worthy of academic pursuit is a good question...though the first chapter has more don't do this if you intend to write, than I can count. This book became a commercial success due to the controversy. It has no redeeming quality as writing goes otherwise. So step away from the reviews, buck up, and read the primary source if you really think this is worthy of actual research.