A U.K. hotel has packed away its in-room Bibles in favor of steamier fare: EL James’ Fifty Shades of Grey.

NBC News reports that The Damson Dene Hotel in England’s Lake District has removed the Bible from its 40 guest rooms and replaced them with copies of the erotic bestseller.

“Tonight millions of women will be curling up in bed with a good book and you can bet your life it won’t be the Bible. More likely than not it will be Fifty Shades of Grey,” the hotel’s owner, Jonathan Denby, wrote in a blog post. He continued:

I haven’t read the book yet — I’m not in the target audience — but I’m told it’s a ripping good yarn and everyone who’s in the target audience loves it. This made me wonder about the sense of providing a book, the Gideon Bible which no-one reads, and many dislike, in the bedside cabinet of our hotel bedrooms, instead of a book which everyone wants to read, such as Fifty Shades of Grey.

In today’s secular society, he added, it seems “distinctly odd” to keep a religious book in a hotel bedroom.

Local religious officials have already spoken out against the swap, calling it a gimic, NBC reports. Denby pointed out that he is not getting rid of the Bibles, and that they will be kept behind the desk for any customer who requests a copy.

Fifty Shades of Grey has already sold more than 20 million copies in the U.S. and will soon be made into a movie, helmed by the producers of The Social Network.

Are you outraged by the hotel’s move? Intrigued? Would you read Fifty Shades if it showed up on your hotel’s bedside table?

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