"Fifty Shades Of Grey" has served as a kind of "Intro to BDSM" class for tens of millions of people.
However, the movie gets many aspects of the kinky subculture wrong, according to Julie Fennell, a member of the Washington, D.C. BDSM community and an associate professor at Gallaudet University.
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