{"id":2345,"date":"2015-01-29T12:23:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T12:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:14:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:14:53","slug":"frank-furedi-on-how-50-shades-of-grey-has-become-the-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2015\/01\/29\/frank-furedi-on-how-50-shades-of-grey-has-become-the-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Furedi on how &#8217;50 Shades of Grey&#8217; has become the mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a little over two weeks,\u00a0the widely &#8216;anticipated&#8217; film version of best-selling novel Fifty Shades Of Grey hits cinemas in the UK. SSPSSR\u00a0Sociology Professor Frank Furedi\u00a0discusses why porn, once\u00a0hidden\u00a0has become mainstream in an article in today&#8217;s <a title=\"IBT link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/fifty-shades-grey-why-has-porn-became-mainstream-1485564\" target=\"_blank\">International Business Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article explores how something\u00a0once regarded as a &#8220;dirty hidden secret&#8221; is now widely celebrated and how the lines between pornographic and mainstream culture have become increasingly blurred. Professor Furedi\u00a0identifies a &#8220;disorientation in society&#8221; where sex has become detached from relationships, read more <a title=\"IBT article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/fifty-shades-grey-why-has-porn-became-mainstream-1485564\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Furedi profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/ehv\/profiles\/furedi-frank.html\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Frank Furedi<\/a> is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Kent&#8217;s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a little over two weeks,\u00a0the widely &#8216;anticipated&#8217; film version of best-selling novel Fifty Shades Of Grey hits cinemas in the UK. SSPSSR\u00a0Sociology Professor Frank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2015\/01\/29\/frank-furedi-on-how-50-shades-of-grey-has-become-the-mainstream\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}