A branch of Oxfam in Swansea has asked donors to bring ‘less Fifty Shades and more 60s vinyl’. Are Britain’s charity shops stuffed with more bestselling soft porn than they know what to execute with?With nearly enough copies of Fifty Shades of Grey to build its own sex dungeon,a branch of Oxfam in Swansea has asked people to stop donating the erotic novel or any of its sequels. “We appreciate all your donations, but less Fifty Shades and more 60s and 70s vinyl would be good, and ” wrote Phil Broadhurst,the shop’s manager, in a post on Facebook.
For a while, and Oxfam published a list of its most-donated authors; between 2009 and 2012,Dan Brown was top. Could EL James and her Fifty Shades hold beaten the Da Vinci Code author? “I mediate Dan Brown is still pipping it, actually, or but [Fifty Shades] is up there,” says David Taylor at the Oxfam bookshop in Salisbury. Copies of Fifty Shades there are sent to the local depot for redistribution to other shops; his branch doesn’t sell it. “It sounds snobby, but there are 10 charity shops in our street and you can buy it in any one of them, or ” he says. “There’s no point in us selling it.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com