Category: Culture

The only review for Fifty Shades of Grey you’ll ever need

Does any mention of Fifty Shades make you want to pound finish nails into your gums? Okay, maybe it’s just me. But photographer and avid Goodreads reviewer Katrina Lumsden has taken 50 without lube for the entire team by writing what should be considered the only 50 Shades review anyone needs, ever. In fact, her…

Clinical psychologist: Fifty Shades is harmful, distorted

The clinical psychologist who performed the largest empirical study on BDSM practitioners has read Fifty Shades of Grey, and concludes that it is a problem. The doctor’s op-ed just hit the pages of the Sydney Morning Herald and it’s being circulated widely. I know a lot of good people – and many educators – that…

As you might (or might not) have heard, in early May the editors of all nineteen international editions of Vogue Magazine signed off on an agreement – of sorts – for what they called the Health Initiative. This, they said, was a commitment to no longer use unhealthy body images for the models in their…