If you haven’t heard of Colleen Hoover, you’re one of the few women who has. Hoover is the wildly successful author of the romance novel “It Ends with Us,” which has just made its film debut.
The film stars Blake Lively and, according to The Hollywood Reporter, grossed more than $15 million in its first weekend.
Allie Beth Stuckey The author of “Relatable” also read this book but found he had to skip too many parts.
“Why? Because the book is sexually explicit. It’s pornography. It’s sexual pornography and it’s emotional pornography,” Stuckey explains. “Just because it’s fiction, just because you’re reading something doesn’t mean it’s OK to consume it.”
It’s not just the sexual content of Hoover’s book that’s of concern, but also the feminist message she sends to readers.
“If this is what women are consuming, then I can understand why they think the way they do,” she continues. “Not just about sex and promiscuity, but about this girlboss self-god world that women occupy, this self-empowerment, this self-savior complex.”
While there are some good elements to the story — Blake Lively’s character tries to escape an abusive relationship and finds solace in a man who is strong and protective in the right way — those good elements are undermined by the explicit sexuality.
“When you write a steamy, intense love scene between a woman and her abuser, you’re kind of glamorizing the abuse, and I think that’s really dangerous because unfortunately, women end up becoming attached to the abusive character,” Stuckey explains.
It also encourages emotional and sexual fantasies, leading women to compare themselves and their relationships to the characters.
“I think that this emotional porn, in addition to the sexual aspect, just makes women extremely dissatisfied, makes them extremely dissatisfied with their lives, makes them extremely dissatisfied with their marriages in a way that’s not rooted in reality, and it just fuels lust and fantasy,” Stuckey said.
“It doesn’t make a person feel satisfied or fulfilled,” she added.
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