View from a Rhino House: “Dear God, will nobody think of the children?”

A State judge in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has confiscated copies of the “mummy-porn” trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” & other erotic books from stores, & has ordered booksellers seal the novels to prevent children “leafing through them” (like after the adults have finished they don’t just “fall open” at the juicy parts – 😄).

Police & Court officials in the Rio town of Macae seized over 50 books including a dozen copies of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” series by British author E.L. James after the shops broke rarely enforced Brazilian laws by failing to conceal erotic images & content deemed inappropriate for under-18s.

Officials will return the books if the bookshop proprietors ensure they are sealed before being put back on display (by which time they will be well thumbed, no doubt, & bearing some very dodgy-looking stains).

The judge, Raphael Baddini de Queiroz Campos, from the local family tribunal, acted after finding a group of children gathered around a window display at one of the town’s bookshops where “erotic content” (?) was on display, the Rio de Janeiro justice service’s web site said.

Good to know that someone with a nice name is looking-out for the kids in the favelas, but what will happen if they get schools & actually learn to read?

“I don’t know what it’s about I can’t read either…. But I think Elizabeth Taylor was in the film.”