Script writer Erin Cressida Wilson said this in a Guardian article in 2014: By the time I wrote the screenplay for Secretary, I had given up all hope of ever reaching a wider audience. No movie star would accept playing the lead in that film. After all, to portray a submissive and to be spanked onscreen would be a disastrous move for their careers. In addition, there was talk early on that the script was sexist because it ended with Maggie Gyllenhaal's character making a bed and dropping a cockroach on it - so that her husband would find it and punish her. It was repeatedly suggested to me that instead - she should "find herself" and become a lawyer herself. She should be powerful in a way that appeared strong through a traditional feminist lens. There was also a vibe around the film that Gyllenhaal's character should overcome her problem. Again, I didn't consider her to have a problem. And so I decided that this was a coming-out film for a masochist.
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Today, it seems that what was pornographic 12 years ago is passe and maybe even cliched. One generation's risque becomes the baseline for the next.
This has become THE mainstream movie I cherish the most for its spanking contents. Before that it was the Story of O. Both of them are great movies, but Secretary brings spanking to my own workplace... (My wish...)
( Lionheart - 2014-01-11 2:05 )
I was a secretary in the 50's and one my boses ,a lady dragan, was off known to not only treaten you with a spanking but once or twice she went though with it.
I remember it well just the once only spanking I've ever received in my 70 years but it let it;s mark
( Patsy P - 2013-10-30 18:31 )
Introducing to the general public that a fetish called SPANKING, can be an enjoying pastime.
( - 2013-05-17 23:10 )
