Shakespeare
Amidst a howl of slow-news-day publicity and newspaper hyperbole a new adult store is set to open in the historic town of Stratford-Upon-Avon on Friday 5 June 2009.
Owned by Katie Gilbert the proprietor of “Adam and Eve”, a sex shop in Evesham, it is situated in a central location and has caused a bit of a stir.
Cllr Jenny Fradgley Mayor of Stratford is reported to have said that the shop is incompatible with the “world class image” of Stratford.
Rev Martin Gorick, of Holy Trinity Church, last resting place of the bard himself has referred to the shop as seedy. Interesting as it has yet to open.
If Ms Gilbert is to be believed (and one assumes this is the understanding on which planning permission for the shop was granted), the shop will sell “mainly “tasteful lingerie”. It will also stock “fun dressing-up” items, as well as a selection of sexual health products and some “adult toys”. Sounds pretty inoffensive to us.
In fact, from our memories of Stratford an even more offensive site is the MacDonalds restaurant on Bridge Street.
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