5:21 pm - 11/05/2012
A charity for abuse victims will use donated copies of an erotic bestseller as compost and toilet paper, it said.
Clare Phillipson, of Wearside Women in Need, originally asked people to donate their copy of Fifty Shades of Grey to be burned on 5 November in a bonfire.
She said the themes of sadism and masochism and were "vile". The charity received about 24 copies and said they will now be cut up and recycled.
Publisher Random House said: "The sex scenes are entirely consensual."
The books are about a steamy romance between a businessman and a student.
The charity, based in Washington, originally planned to burn the donated books on a bonfire.
Ms Phillipson said: "There were a range of options.
"We discussed the book burning while getting the message across that this book is a dangerous trend.
"I think we've got a culture now which has completely sexualised women and in which women feel obligated to take part in that culture. We want to draw a line under that.
"We will be cutting them up, using them for toilet roll and sticking them on our compost heap and they will go back into the ground... although the ideas they represent will continue."
Ms Phillipson said in August that money used to buy the book would be better spent supporting victims.
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50 Shades of Grey meets its destiny as toilet paper and compost :D
A charity for abuse victims will use donated copies of an erotic bestseller as compost and toilet paper, it said.
Clare Phillipson, of Wearside Women in Need, originally asked people to donate their copy of Fifty Shades of Grey to be burned on 5 November in a bonfire.
She said the themes of sadism and masochism and were "vile". The charity received about 24 copies and said they will now be cut up and recycled.
Publisher Random House said: "The sex scenes are entirely consensual."
The books are about a steamy romance between a businessman and a student.
The charity, based in Washington, originally planned to burn the donated books on a bonfire.
Ms Phillipson said: "There were a range of options.
"We discussed the book burning while getting the message across that this book is a dangerous trend.
"I think we've got a culture now which has completely sexualised women and in which women feel obligated to take part in that culture. We want to draw a line under that.
"We will be cutting them up, using them for toilet roll and sticking them on our compost heap and they will go back into the ground... although the ideas they represent will continue."
Ms Phillipson said in August that money used to buy the book would be better spent supporting victims.
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Edited at 2012-11-05 05:26 pm (UTC)
These books are shit. The BDSM is badly researched and problematic, the main character is an abusive asshole who has serious issues and no respect for boundaries as her STALKS the female protagonist, who is in turn one of the most annoying characters I have ever read. It's a mess from beginning to end, it's plagiarized, badly written and has terrible sex scenes and I am judging anyone and everyone who spent money on it.
This woman sounds like a moron and a zealot.
Might not like the books but so against burning them.
Edited at 2012-11-05 05:28 pm (UTC)
Could have fooled me.
she needs Jesus. Or at least good smut.
LOL ok
I made a paper chain for my Christmas tree out of a shitty book.
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hpho
And book burners are gross and should feel gross, tbh.
since from everything i've heard, 50 Shades isn't exactly representing healthy non-abusive kink