This installment of mortification of spin, Bully Pulpit, sees the crew discussing a pervasive cultural artifact, the 50 Shades of Grey series of books.

With the release of the movie's first trailer, the internet is a buzz with talk of the series, and some of it is coming from Christians.

This is not simply harmless entertainment.

It's pornography, and its effects,

change of person's attitudes and behaviors on a fundamental level.

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Okay, so here we are at the underground bunker,

and I'm here with my co-host talking about the latest phenomenon that we've noticed

with the trailer release of the upcoming movie, 50 Shades of Grey.

It's not coming out until Valentine's Day,

February 2015, and yet many women, Christian women included, are posting on Facebook how they're excited to go see it. They've read the book. Apparently, over 100 million people have bought the book. And although 20% of those people

are male, the audience is mostly women over 50 and housewives home with the kids. And this book is

it's a erotic fiction book.

So we're sitting here trying to figure out why so many Christian women are bragging about going to see this movie and just the success of the book in general, right guys?

Yeah.

And you know, I guess part of my question is, is the greater offense that people are reading an obscene book or that so many are reading just a poorly

written book because apparently with 50 Shades of Gray you get you get both right obscene

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