Pt's/visitors reading Fifty Shades of Grey???

Nursing Students CNA/MA

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I am NOT a prude by any stretch but come on ladies!!! I haven't read any of the trilogy but saw the author interviewed several times and heard about it from friends/family. I am up to 2 patients and 1 visitor over 4-5 months. I was afraid I would be interrupting something when I had to go back into the 2 patient's rooms!!!

Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

LOL, just the other day one of my coworkers walked up to me and, COMPLETELY

serious, she said "Um... you just need to know that so-and-so is now reading "50

Shades of Grey" and so we are to chart any inappropriate behavior" (I work in LTC)

I haven't read it yet but I'll bet it isn't as good as Judy Blume's "Wifey". Raunchy

as heck AND actually a very good story as well.

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Oh, and if you want a REALLY good laugh, google "Gilbert Gottfried reads '50 Shades of Grey'".

:rotfl:

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As someone who has actually read the books, they're kinda lame and NOWHERE near as dirty and hot as people who haven't read them think. Over the course of the three novels, you get the same sex scene over and over and over. That part got boring by the end of the first novel that I just skipped those scenes in the other two books. Aside from that "naughtiness," there's actually a little bit of plot. Not a terribly good plot and definitely nothing realistic or believable, but there's plot nonetheless.

They aren't great novels. They aren't erotica. They're a bit erotic but are nowhere near being erotica. You don't get explicitly described sex scenes or anything like that. Apparently, that's what people who haven't read them expect to find. If you're a fan of the word "avuncular" then you'll love 50SoG.

But you, OP, need to get a grip and lighten up. (And yes, this post is very prudish.) Why complain about someone who is being quiet? By reading, they are keeping themselves occupied, keeping their minds off the current situation, and aren't bothering you every 5 minutes. While these novels aren't very intellectually stimulating, reading anything is better than reading nothing.

At least they weren't reading it aloud. Let it go.

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Lady Chatterly's Lover by DH Lawrance, was written in 1928 and had to be privately published until 1960. Anyone seen reading it, even in the '60's, was usually considered a reprobate. James Joyce's Ulysses was judged obscene in the US in the 1920's and was not legally allowed to be published until the the 1920 court decision was overturned in a suit brought by Random House in 1934. It was not considered acceptable reading until the 1960's. Maurice, by EM Forster (A Room With A View, A Passage to India) was written in 1911 but was unpublishable until 1970. Who are we to judge what is obscene literature and more importantly, is it really anyone's business to monitor or even care about what someone is reading?

Given the generally woeful state of literacy in the US, just seeing someone read a book and not People magazine should be considered a positive.

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My patients and residents can read whatever they like. Hmph. :w00t:

I would rather have them read than do other potentially disruptive things, like barging into other residents' rooms when bored.

EDIT: Totally agree with chuckster. I hate the whole "banned books" garbage and honestly the fact that people are reading is a miracle.

Reading literature is stimulating for the mind and I imagine it would be therapeutic for a lot of people--raunchy subject matter or otherwise.

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LOL, just the other day one of my coworkers walked up to me and, COMPLETELYserious, she said "Um... you just need to know that so-and-so is now reading "50Shades of Grey" and so we are to chart any inappropriate behavior" (I work in LTC)
Oh my, you'd be doing an awful lot of charting at my facility, 90% male, many under 65. It's a rare night you don't walk in on *someone* watching hardcore Media....
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Specializes in Hospice / Ambulatory Clinic.

This is why the kindle is so wonderful you can read all the trash you like and no one ever knows.

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LOL, just the other day one of my coworkers walked up to me and, COMPLETELY

serious, she said "Um... you just need to know that so-and-so is now reading "50

Shades of Grey" and so we are to chart any inappropriate behavior" (I work in LTC)

And I say that if someone actually charts that it's "inappropriate behavior" for a resident to be reading a steamy novel, that nurse needs to REALLY get a life.

Would it take the resident reading Little Women for it to be considered appropriate behavior? Talk about judgmental!

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This is why the kindle is so wonderful you can read all the trash you like and no one ever knows.

And, apparently, it's important to make sure the staff during a patient's hospital stay, or the staff while someone is a RESIDENT in LTC need to be shielded from the fact that this is a free country and the STAFF has zero input over anyone else's choice of book.

I can't believe this is an issue for some people. You'd think it was an erotic script and the patient was asking the staffer to play a part! Jeez....

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Specializes in Trauma Surgical ICU.

hahaha, what a silly thing to get all upset over...

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This is why the kindle is so wonderful you can read all the trash you like and no one ever knows.

This is totally one of the main reasons why I LOVE my Kindle! I have a system where I read a 'classic' book (or some other mentally stimulating book) then I'll read a trashy book. I don't want to be judged by my book cover just because I'm on my trashy book cycle!

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Specializes in Hospice / Ambulatory Clinic.

All I can say is read it first THEN you can judge.

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