Unless you’ve been living under the rock of repression, odds are you’re at least familiar with the phenomenon that is Fifty Shades of Grey.
It’s also spawned a film trilogy whose first installment, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, dominated the box office over Presidents Day weekend with a record $94.4 million take, and a global haul of over a quarter of a billion dollars.
The film centers on Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), a romantic, virginal English lit student who falls for a surreptitious 27-year-old billionaire, Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan). Little does she know that Grey has a dark past, which manifests itself in his desire to slap, whip, and smack around women with a series of tools in his red-tinted “playroom.” Anastasia isn’t into it at first, refusing to sign her suitor’s dom-sub (dominant-submissive) contract, but eventually relents after falling for the kinky bastard—albeit as a free agent.
BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism) is a catch-all phrase that includes a variety of kinky endeavors—from inflicting pain and/or humiliation to the use of restraints—but involves a dominant who controls the session and a submissive who surrenders control. The BDSM scenes in the Fifty Shades of Grey film are tame by virtually any sexually active person’s standards. Take it from an actual dominatrix. YES, In real life it was FEMDOM. But there have been a plethora of movies that have tackled DOMINATRIX BDSM in more unique and interesting ways. So, If you think the Fifty Shades franchise deserves all the credit for making BDSM mainstream, think again. Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars have been tackling roles with onscreen BDSM for years. Here are 10 movies and TV shows that invited A-list actors to explore their own FEMDOM shades of grey/gray.
We take a look at 10 FEMDOM BDSM films which shocked, stimulated and spanked their way to notoriety.
