Monday, May 14, 2012

Hundreds request banned 'mummy porn'

AMY MAAS - DomPost -  14/05/2012

Fifty Shades of Grey
HUGE SUCCESS: Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L.James - originally published as an e-book by Australian company, the Writer's Coffee Shop. Now Random House in paper and e-book editions.

A romance trilogy dubbed "mummy porn" and banned by American libraries has a captive audience in Auckland with hundreds of readers on a waiting list to read the first copy.

Libraries across the city have 20 copies of E.L James' first novel Fifty Shades of Grey - but they're in hot demand with 706 Aucklanders already on the waiting list.
More copies have been ordered.
Booksellers in New Zealand started selling the book late last month.
Fifty Shades of Grey, which has topped the New York Times bestseller list, has been described as Twilight for adults for its scenes of wild sex and bondage between the male billionaire and his virgin no-more love interest.
The English author of the book released it online chapter by chapter in early 2011. The steamy scenes captured its middle-aged audience and it was launched as an e-book in May 2011. It has since gone on to sell for $1.29 million in a deal with publisher Random House and has topped bestseller lists worldwide.

The book has two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed.

1 comment:

Cherrie Herrin-Michehl said...

As a a licensed mental health counselor, I am deeply saddened and disturbed that this accepted and embraced. This type of so-called "art" helps to encourage the proliferation of sex trafficking and pushes the envelope in regards to what is considered acceptable. This type of bondage is often involved in sex addiction and can cause mental, physical, and emotional harm. My hope is for people to begin to understand how supply and demand is involved in pornography, creating a fertile envirolment for sex trafficking. Most of the girls are in the 11-16 year old range when originally abducted and lured into the industry by a violent pimp.