“Fifty Shades” vs. Lasting Intimacy

Last updated on: February 20, 2015 at 10:25 am by Guest Contributor

“Fifty Shades” vs. Lasting Intimacy 2015-02-20T10:25:15-04:00 Guest Contributor

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What I know of Christian and Anna from Fifty Shades made me want to compare the two characters not to a diamond but to flint and steel. Together, they can make a fire by being violently banged together. But with each ignition, the flint wears down and the steel flakes off. Pieces of each of them are destroyed. This is like Don and Megan’s relationship in Mad Men. It is highly dependent on sex—often semi-violent sex which morphs either into or out of their fights. In the midst of one of these sexually-charged arguments, Megan says, “Every time we fight, it diminishes us a little bit.” I would submit that, counterintuitively, their sex has the same effect. It is not ordered towards the other—it is not a gift of self, therefore it consumes rather than purifies.

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