America Has No Choice But To Accept Kink’s Forthcoming Mainstream Moment

When absolutely nothing else arouses the excitement and intrigue of the mainstream, sex and sensuality always can…

No, this isn’t about 50 Shades of Grey. Yes, the film starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan made $166 million at the box office in 2015. But did literally two out of every five American adults rush to the theater to see it? Did it inspire kink-friendly behavior to become iconic front-page news? No. However, regardless of the effect of 50 Shades, could American pop culture be increasingly warming to and potentially economically sinking into kink’s seductive and erotically asphyxiating grip? Absolutely. Here’s a sound socioeconomic argument as to why this is the case.

There was once a time in American history wherein the mainstream pop cultural consciousness could dependably and economically quite sustainably, be held enraptured by a TV show, a pop song, or a film. While yes, these are still all mediums quite capable of capturing the nation’s consciousness, there may be a democratization of access and globalization of options available that has lowered the bar to a point where something wildly peculiar…no, let’s just say kinky…could occur. When sex and sensuality pop a boner on the zeitgeist that — call a…