>>Neither is opinion. You stated as fact that Gor is vilified and 50 Shades is mainstream. Neither is true, the fact is both are considered crap and neither is mainstream.
50 Shades is in movie theatres right now. It occupies an end cap at Target. Your opinion that it is not “mainstream” is wrong. You don’t like 50 Shades and neither do I. That’s why I said that we are in the dark ages now. But pretending that it doesn’t exist as a real part of our sick culture is like refusing to call terrorists Muslims.
And yes, Gor has always been crap. But, it was entertaining crap when I was young and it is vilified today (Google it).
And is protested by both the BDSM community and Christian right. Lots of stuff hits the movie theaters without being mainstream. Even a movie that grosses $129 million is actually only watched by a very small number of people (easy math is divide by 10, $129 million means about 13 million people, or about 4% of the population, hardly mainstream).
Gor should be vilified. It started as crap and turned into violent pornographic crap. Really all the same criticisms lodged against it are lodged against 50 Shades also. Both are criticized for presenting abusive behavior as good. The only real difference between them is point of view, one is from the rapist guy, the other is from the willing to be raped girl. And the complaints reflect that, google them both. They are both equally vilified.