A Brazilian judge has ordered bookstores to ensure that the erotic trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey is out of the reach of minors.
Judge Raphael Queiroz Campos issued the order on January 14 after he saw children in one of city’s bookstores looking through erotic books, according to a statement issued by the Rio de Janeiro state judiciary department on Thursday night. Eleven copies of the Grey series were among 64 books taken from the shelves of two bookstores because their content was deemed improper for those under the age of 18.
Two days after the judge’s order, the books were back on the shelves, but sealed and out of reach of minors, as Campos instructed. The judge based his decision on a law that says “magazines and publications whose content is improper or inadequate for children and adolescents can only be sold if sealed and with warnings regarding their content.”