The Museum of Sex in New York City has come to the rescue of an Oxfam charity bookshop in Swansea, South Wales that was inundated with so many donated used copies of E.L James's Fifty Shades of Grey they had started "begging women to stop bringing them in" and "built a fort out of them."
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Katherine Eilbeck, deputy manager of the shop, said the copies at her store represent just a fraction of the "thousands" being warehoused for charity shops in the area. "They have built up an amazing amount. So many that I really wouldn't like to say how many, but a lot."
MoSex is currently making arrangements to have a substantial number of them shipped to the U.S., where renowned book artist Clayre Jones will create an installation that is at once a statement on "mass market sexuality" as well as an interactive Fifty Shades of Grey pop-up "bookstore," where visitors can pick up a copy stamped with the official MoSex logo and make a donation to Oxfam or the museum.
A spokesperson for the museum said, "With millions of copies of the Fifty Shades trilogy out there in circulation--or no longer circulating, as the case may be--it's possible this 'bookshop' could become part of our permanent collection." --Robert Gray