{"id":15732,"date":"2015-02-19T09:11:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T14:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=15732"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:12","slug":"prof-khan-discusses-fifty-shades-bdsm-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2015\/prof-khan-discusses-fifty-shades-bdsm-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Khan discusses &#8216;Fifty Shades&#8217;, BDSM phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Prof. Khan discusses &#8216;Fifty Shades&#8217;, BDSM phenomenon\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>With&nbsp;the first instalment of&nbsp;<strong><em>Fifty Shades of Grey <\/em><\/strong>hitting&nbsp;theatres this past week, <strong>Prof. <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/khan-ummni\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ummni Khan<\/a><\/strong> has been busy sharing thoughts on the film and its connection to BDSM and kink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Khan, whose book&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utppublishing.com\/Vicarious-Kinks-S-M-in-the-Socio-Legal-Imaginary.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Vicarious Kinks: S\/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary<\/span><\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;launched&nbsp;recently, has been sought out for her research on the subject of film, feminism, the human sciences, and law. Below are some of the latest media pieces to which she has contributed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avery Zingel, &#8220;Sex experts condemn Joy Smith&#8217;s criticism of Fifty Shades of Grey,&#8221; <i>CBC News<\/i>. February 17, 2015. Read&nbsp;the article here:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/1.2960258\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/1.2960258<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Panelist, &#8221;Fifty Shades&#8217; Of Misrepresentation&#8217;, <em>HuffPost Live<\/em>. Aired February 10, 2015.<br>\nView the panel&nbsp;here:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/huff.lv\/1y8Uhpd\">http:\/\/huff.lv\/1y8Uhpd<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M\u00e9lanie Berliet, &#8220;Your Dominatrix Is So Bored by &#8217;50 Shades&#8221;, <em>The Daily Beast.&nbsp;<\/em>February 6, 2015.<br>\nRead the article&nbsp;here:&nbsp;<a class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/thebea.st\/16yoffV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-reactid=\".9.1:3:1:$comment10153078520382422_10153079004877422:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$range0:0\">http:\/\/thebea.st\/16yoffV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With&nbsp;the first instalment of&nbsp;Fifty Shades of Grey hitting&nbsp;theatres this past week, Prof. Ummni Khan has been busy sharing thoughts on the film and its connection to BDSM and kink. Prof. Khan, whose book&nbsp;Vicarious Kinks: S\/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary&nbsp;launched&nbsp;recently, has been sought out for her research on the subject of film, feminism, the human sciences, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1,4],"tags":[119,121,79,120,122,118,123],"class_list":["post-15732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news","category-news","category-research-news","tag-bdsm","tag-fifty-shades-of-grey","tag-film","tag-kink","tag-legal-theory","tag-ummni-khan","tag-vicarious-kinks"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15734,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15732\/revisions\/15734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}