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A charity bookshop is begging women to stop handing in second-hand copies of steamy novel Fifty Shades of Grey .

Women who bought the erotic thrillers are dumping them in thrift stores - because they don't want to keep them in their own home once they've read it.

And an Oxfam shop in Swansea, South Wales, has received so many used copies of E.L James' s novels that it has been forced to say: "Please - no more".

The shop has become so inundated with "literally hundreds" of the books they have been forced to hand them over to a warehouse where they will either be sold online or recycled.

Oxfam worker Phil Broadhurst said his store has become a "retirement home" for copies of EL James' book and its sequels.

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Mr Broadhurst said: "We appreciate all the donations - but less Fifty Shades and more Sixties and Seventies vinyl would be good.

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"There are a lot of people obsessed by Fifty Shades of Grey, we get people bringing in new copies coming in all the time. Enough is enough."

The unwanted copies are collected by Goldstone Books, which operates a book warehouse in Ammanford, South Wales, where they are sorted for resale or recycling.

Company director Rea Stamford-Plows said: "I've read the book - and I love it."

Fifty Shades of Grey, which tells of the dark sexual relationship between Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey, has sold more than 125million copies worldwide and was also made into a hit film starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson.