You’ve no doubt heard of Fifty Shades of Grey. After all, the book has sold 100 million copies worldwide and the movie released Valentine’s Day is already a box office hit. By all worldly accounts, it’s a great success.
It’s an emotional nightmare.
Fifty Shades of Grey is, in the words of one reviewer (Cynthia Quinn), a “poorly written, 514 page book” that has introduced 100 million readers worldwide to the “kinky subculture and dark world of BDSM, an abbreviation for Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadism and Masochism.” The New York Times called it a “terrible” movie and US Weekly gives “50 Problems With the Raunchy Flick.”
Reviewers–secular and Christian–have warned movie-goers that this is not a warm-hearted Valentine’s Day big screen hit. It is a movie that portrays and promotes a perverted lifestyle and something very harmful to men and women alike.
I hope you can tell I haven’t read the book or watched the movie. I don’t intend to. I don’t want to put things into my mind that can’t be removed. I don’t want to let the dark and unseemly control my thoughts. It is imperative to “guard your heart.” From your heart ‘the springs of life flow (Proverbs 4:23).
I didn’t watch the Jordanian pilot burned alive by ISIS, either, You don’t have to see it for yourself to know it’s true.
What should we learn from this?
First, perversion can never be satisfied. It demands more and more. In our country, we have now tried and sanctioned almost every kind of perversion. So now we have to move to BDSM.
Second, women innately desire strength in men. With culture having emasculated many of our young men, women are looking for strength in any place, even those which are harmful. Reportedly many mothers are taking their daughters to see the film.
Sin always feeds on itself, bringing more and more harm to out lives.
Third, never forget the beauty of God’s plan. God planned gentle submissive in women and quiet, gentle strength in men. It is God’s plan and it alone fulfills the deep, long-term needs of humans.
Finally, let us teach our children the Truth. It is the Truth that sets us free to be all God planned for us. The best teaching of truth is to model Godly behavior for our children. Let them see a real, God-honoring marriage and they will desire it for themselves.
But also teach them the truth found in Scripture. God created the man and woman for one another. They were created to be “one flesh.” This is why Jesus spoke against divorce. How can you divide “one”?
Sex is a wonderful relationship given by our Creator. It is to be “enjoyed” according to God’s plan which calls for a sexual relationship only within the marriage of one man and one woman. Let everything else be off limits for those who desire to please God.
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thank you for that blog,
Thank you Dr Bailey. Bonnie
When absurdity becomes the norm, society becomes decadent!
I have not read the book or seen the movie and don’t plan to. We know that satan is a pervert and has perverted the things God meant for good, he’s doing what he does best. I am apalled to hear that mothers are bringing their daughters to see this filth, God help us!
Thank you for the review. The sad truth is that these perverted lifestyle practices in the sexual realm whet the appetite for more and even greater extremes. Sooner or later, the desire is moved only be the most extreme, the experience of sexual pleasure in the death of another person, now looked on as a mere object. I did my Master’s counseling in the eighties in the Liberty University’s School of Life Long Learning (distance, online education today, I suppose). During one of the two courses taught in two weeks on campus by the professors, one of the professors mentioned a Master’s degree thesis written at a Western University which provided insight into the link between relationships of parent and child involving sex and the serial killer, the child in adulthood. This is not to say that every case leads to that, but simply to point out one of the sources, at least, of such traumas of horror.
There is a drive, apparently, which moves the individual who indulges in such fantasies and practices to greater and greater extremes for satisfaction. Our present day reality of pornography contributes to the problem also, providing as it does a hook up for the individual with that particular set of psychological quirks which lead to bizarre and murder. Since people vary in their psycho-social makeups, the effects can and do vary from person to person. However, the more society deteriorates, the more we shall experience this mind numbing and deplorable acts of violence, even bloody violence, as a part of that which should be the expression of the sweetest and most considerate love.
Thanks, James. I always appreciate your insight.
I would like to ditto the comment by Brenda Collins. Or should I say “A men” to that?
Thanks to all of your for your comments.
Proof that Satan is as alive and well as Jesus Christ. So sad! Thanks for the timely blog.
Yes, plenty of darkness and evil in the world but, as John said, the darkness has not–and will not–overcome the light (John 1).