After my announcement of the Sexy Uncovered tour looking for the new face of Ann Summers from amongst the real women in Britain, I have discovered that the Bullring have declined to allow the event to take place at the store in Birmingham.
One can’t help wondering if some po-faced pen-pusher has decided that it is beneath them to promote the possibility that Brummie folk might engage in sexual antics purely for fun.
I feel as if I should step to the defence of what is becoming an adoptive City. Personally, I had some of my best sex within its postcodes – I’ve even walked round the Bullring wearing a remote-controlled vibrator!
I feel most disgruntled that the flower of West Midlands womanhood will not get the opportunity to aspire to a dream and shake their booty at their local shopping centre. As you can see from the footage from the first Tour date in Westfield, London, there was nothing terribly shocking going on. Just fully clothed women walking down a catwalk and some discussion about a variety of aids that can actually save a relationship. No scantily-clad hussies or salacious encouragement for fornication.
What a shame the powers that be who make such decisions at the Bullring didn’t see it that way. Yet again, the out-moded beliefs of those who feel it is their duty to ‘protect’ the rest of the population from being exposed to something they consider unnatural, mean that sex is being consigned to ‘behind the hand’ and ‘under the table’. It’s not surprising that we have such high rates of teenage pregnancy and STIs. How can we expect our young people to be sexually aware when so many of their elders refuse to discuss these issues.
Sex needs to be brought out of the closet and celebrated as a thing of joy, rather than a quick in and out behind the bike sheds or, worse, the bolt of the marital bedroom door.
As ever, Ann Summers are at the forefront of this re-education of the British population, touring the country to promote their decision to go with real women rather than stick-thin models for their re-brand and showing off some fabulous new lingerie lines in the process.
But, sadly, their search won’t be happening in Birmingham this week.
Bah! Humbug!!!
I suppose it might be instructive to work out how in many postcodes one has enjoyed sex. I once did it for counties of England and the answer was ‘Most of them’!
PMSL… Only You…!!!! :)