The hotel owner helpfully explained that, since private bedrooms are no place for Bibles, he has replaced them with tenth-rate pornography. No, I haven’t read Fifty Shades of Grey and have no intention of doing so even if its popularity does suggest that, contrary to expectations, it may actually be third-rate pornography.

Besides, I’d rather read the Song of Songs.

From here:

A hotel in England has replaced in-room bibles with the erotic bestseller “50 Shades of Grey.”

Instead of the standard Gideon bible, the owner of Damson Dene opted for the steamy novel known for its explicit sexual content because he thought it was the hospitable thing to do.

“Because everybody is reading ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ we thought it would be a hospitable thing to do, to have this available for our guests, especially if some of them were a little bit shy about buying it because of its reputation,” hotel owner Jonathan Denby told NBC News.

The hotel said it discretely stashes the bestseller in the bedside table for guests to discover –the place one reserved for the bible.

Denby  told NBC he found religious books a “wholly inappropriate” choice for private bedrooms in England’s modern, secular society.