Sadomasochism and Ardent Love: An Historical Perspective
on May 20, 2012
This important guide sets the record straight on the Fifty Shades phenom. We're no more dealing with women embracing an abuse fantasy than women dressing up in seamed stockings and girdles as a wholesale endorsement of the pre-feminist 50s. The key distinction is consensuality and choice -- including the choice of consciously relinquishing control. Hightly recommended for putting the series into a proper social and historical context.