A 23-YEAR-OLD woman was so shocked by a “depraved sex show” in a Bromley boozer she complained to the manager, and us.
So shocked, it seems, she stayed a little bit longer just to find out if the charity event really was as despicable as she originally thought.
Not only were drinkers “forced” to indulge in a kissing contest, but when things started to heat up, she says “men looked on, gawping”. Surely not!
The “den of iniquity” in question? Not a seedy Soho bar but the Tiger’s Head just outside the town centre.
OK, so it wasn’t the night out she was expecting, but there’s a sure-fire way of making sure you don’t see, or hear, anything you don’t want to. Leave.
This was, surely, always the answer to the Mary Whitehouse brigade who wanted to deny us the right to make informed and adult choices about what television programmes to watch. Switch it off, Mary, and go and worry about something real.
It seems there are still forces at work which strive to undermine the basic principles of free will and freedom of choice.
By complaining about what appears to have been a perfectly well-organised and, evidently well-attended, event will naturally attract accusations of prudishness.
But then, as the pub manager said: “There’s always one.” RICHARD SIMCOX
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