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A review by maribeaux
Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair by Elizabeth McNeill
3.0
A human trafficking victim is manipulated to work abroad as a maid after being told the large amount of money she will earn. Her traffickers pay for everything. Turns out, upon landing, she is enslaved to work in a low-end brothel with the pretext of owing the money her traffickers so kindly paid for her; she is constantly battered and raped by her clients. The reason the people who manipulate her are very likely to get punished is because of the physical evidence of harm and nothing else. The justice system is still tied to physical evidence, nothing involving psychology, which is why cops do what they do and why rapes, sexual assaults and cases of mental abuse don't get prosecuted.
Which is also the reason why readers of this book call this work "sexy" and "a love affair". Call it what it is: another story of toxic masculinity.
I have a special interest in erotic literature, but there is absolutely nothing erotic about "Nine and a Half Weeks". Of course I understand it is advertised as such because of people who are unable to understand sexuality beyond the physical and in order to appeal to women like the narrator: weak, inexperienced, naïve, selfless, with a life so boring and monotone that anything out of the ordinary would be acceptable to make a difference. If you are a female and you think the use of emotional manipulation to give into BDSM requests of the you-either-do-this-or-we-are-done type are sexy, you have a big problem and you are also part of the bigger problem that many females suffer from daily, everywhere around the world: male dominance. It is because of females like you that these misogynists who never received love from their mother are allowed to thrive and of course a society that doesn't take into consideration anything that cannot be observed directly.
Which is also the reason why readers of this book call this work "sexy" and "a love affair". Call it what it is: another story of toxic masculinity.
I have a special interest in erotic literature, but there is absolutely nothing erotic about "Nine and a Half Weeks". Of course I understand it is advertised as such because of people who are unable to understand sexuality beyond the physical and in order to appeal to women like the narrator: weak, inexperienced, naïve, selfless, with a life so boring and monotone that anything out of the ordinary would be acceptable to make a difference. If you are a female and you think the use of emotional manipulation to give into BDSM requests of the you-either-do-this-or-we-are-done type are sexy, you have a big problem and you are also part of the bigger problem that many females suffer from daily, everywhere around the world: male dominance. It is because of females like you that these misogynists who never received love from their mother are allowed to thrive and of course a society that doesn't take into consideration anything that cannot be observed directly.