Why is 50 shades of grey banned

Skip to main content. Share gift link below with your friends and family. Link Copied! Copy gift link. The popularity of the book with women my be due to the pure escapism. The activities that E. James describes don't make most readers cringe because it's about an attractive couple in love, and they both have jobs and families who love them.

So it's a love story with a lot of heavy breathing. And some gadgets. For something else by E. But the popularity of the book Image. We use our thorough research and documentation of violations of artistic freedom to influence governments and decision-makers to change laws and practices that limit artistic expression. We take action on behalf of individual artists and audiences whose rights to artistic freedom have been violated.

Sign up for alerts. An alternative to locking the film out of theaters entirely seems to be to either give the film a hard rating to ensure only adults see it, or in at least one case, to make content edits to the sexually charged romance movie. Getting banned or not being screened at all -- as is expected for China, according to Deadline -- could put a dent in Fifty Shades ' global box office, but FIfty is hardly suffering there.

Two sequels are expected, however it sounds like the fate of Fifty Shades Darker is a bit uncertain. But based on the numbers, the box office obviously isn't a factor in whatever challenges the sequel might have ahead of it.

Fifty 's growing box office haul is an obvious indication that there is an audience for this type of movie, and that, while some may be finding illegal ways of screening the film in private, not everyone is averse to sitting through an erotic romance in the company of a theater full of strangers. It's with that in mind that I'm inclined to wonder which studios might be watching these numbers and plotting their own steamy romance adaptation.