Tamara wrote:
<But both, apparently, passed the test for tarts content??? Didn't know
that Weymouth approved of cannibalism. Wonder if it's their way of
controlling vice :)>
Perhaps it is. This isn't about vice, but it is about sex in Weymouth.
There's a beach-front shop in Weymouth selling sweets, ice cream,
newspapers, etc to the tourists, which also had a stand of sex toys placed
prominently in the middle of the shop floor. Local residents and tourists
all complained that the stand should be at the back of the shop partly
because of the sensitivities of some people, but also so that young children
didn't see what was being sold and embarrass parents by asking what they
were. It was perfectly legal for these items to be on display where they
were and for the shop to sell them.The shop owner wouldn't be persuaded to
move them. Weymouth councillors could do nothing to appease its voters by
invoking a bye-law because there wasn't one covering this sort of thing.
After lots of publicity and pickets outside the shop, the owner finally
realised that he was losing trade because of the publicity and move the
display to the back of the shop.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK (just down the road from Weymouth)
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