Bible being replaced in motel with book, 50 shades of gray.

[powderman]

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/fifty-shades-grey-replaces-bible-british-hotel/story?id=16853389
 
 
Hotel Replaces Bible With '50 Shades of Grey'      E.L. James' 'Fifty Shades of Grey' (Amazon.com)              By GENEVIEVE SHAW BROWN (@gsbrownabc)  July 25, 2012 
  Are hotel guests more interested in reading "50 Shades of Grey" than the Bible?
One British hotelier thinks so. And that's why, even though he says he's never read Emma Watson's best-selling novel himself, Jonathan Denby has decided to remove all the Gideon Bibles from his hotel's 40 rooms and replace them with the book that's been dubbed "mommy porn."
He made the switch earlier this month at the Damson Dene Hotel in the Lake District of England.
      Amazon.com E.L. James' 'Fifty Shades of Grey' View Full Size    Amazon.com E.L. James' 'Fifty Shades of Grey'       '50 Shades' Author Answers Viewers Questions Watch Video        Scarlett Johansson Misses Roles for Being 'Too Sexy' Watch Video        '50 Shades of Grey' Author: The Real Story Watch Video    Denby writes on his blog, Slow Life: "Tonight millions of women will be curling up in bed with a good book and you can bet your life it won't be the Bible. More likely than not it will be 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I haven't read the book yet -- I'm not in the target audience -- but I'm told it's a ripping good yarn and everyone who's in the target audience loves it. This made me wonder about the sense of providing a book, the Gideon Bible which no-one reads, and many dislike, in the bedside cabinet of our hotel bedrooms, instead of a book which everyone wants to read, such as 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'
"In this secular age it seems distinctly odd that anyone would expect to find a religious book in a hotel bedroom."
So what are guests who are not the book's "target audience" supposed to read on a visit to the Damson Dene Hotel? Denby isn't banishing the Bible altogether. Instead, he plans to keep a few copies behind the reception desk in case someone asks.
That's not enough for some. The Telegraph reported a local vicar has condemned the hotelier's actions, calling it a "gimmick." The Damson Dene was featured on a British reality show, "The Hotel."
Rev Michael Woodcock told the newspaper, "It is a great shame that Bibles have been removed from rooms and very inappropriate to have been replaced by an explicit erotic novel.
"The Bible remains a source of comfort and inspiration that many people do find helpful."

[1marty]

there's more sex in the old testament than 50 shades of grey

[Duke0313]

there's more sex in the old testament than 50 shades of grey

Yes, and someone was usually the sorrier for it.

[ironglow]

  I guess they are trying to cultivate a certain clientelle, so long as everyone is warned about Damson Dene hotel and their position, let them fly with it.  If they get the customers they are courting, many of us wouldn't want to stay there anyway.

[gypsyman]

England, doesn't surprise me. If they start doing that here in the states's, will just pack my Bible instead of relying on one in the motel when traveling. gypsyman

[Dixie Dude]

Or forget hotels and buy a camper trailer, RV, or tent.  No sense staying if they are going to be that way. 

[Conan The Librarian]

That book, by the way, is a popular erotica title. Basically soft porn, mostly attracting women as readers.
 
 

[SHOOTALL]

So the hotel is buying books instead of using the ones left free ? Or is someone else placing them there ? Why ? Marketing ?

[powderman]

Why  remove the Bibles at all?? They want a soft porn book then have both there, oooooppppssss, can't do that. The Bible might offend somebody and make em feel guilty about reading the porn. Now I understand, folks will keep coming back til they've read the whole book, or just steal it. POWDERMAN. 

[ironglow]

  Right PM..the Bibles are free, they could leave them right there.  Obviously, that hotel is trying to attract a specific clientelle, so others must take a clue.

[powderman]

IG. I wonder what Church the motel mgt attends?? POWDERMAN. 

[ironglow]

IG. I wonder what Church the motel mgt attends?? POWDERMAN. 

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  Perhaps this one;
   http://www.jedichurch.org/   I understand it is big in the U.K. 

[Sourdough]

The people in England have an entirely different attatude than Americans, when I comes to sex.  I asked an English friend once why was there such a differance of openion.  He laughed and said, "It's simple, we got rid of the Puritans, we sent them to America".  I thought that a bit funny as he said it.  But the more I sat and thought about it, I realized he is historically correct.