{"id":12266,"date":"2011-03-17T15:05:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T19:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12266"},"modified":"2011-03-17T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T19:05:16","slug":"what-is-the-final-taboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-is-the-final-taboo\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the final taboo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prudery, of course. Former UK MP, Ann Widdecombe refused to present an award to the owner of a \u2013 nudge, wink &#8211; lingerie website owner.<\/p>\n<p>The tut-tutting, how could you do such a judgemental thing, article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1367174\/Ann-Widdecombe-snubs-lingerie-business-owner-Women-Worth-Awards.html#ixzz1Gssf9NEC\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former MP Ann Widdecombe waltzed away from handing a lingerie website owner a business award claiming it was against her strict Catholic principles.<\/p>\n<p>The Strictly Come Dancing star, 64, was presenting gongs at the Women of Worth Awards when winning entrepreneur Emily Bendell, 30, was called to the stage.<\/p>\n<p>But Miss Widdecombe, a self-confessed virgin, said her saucy website www.BlueBella.com was against her religious principles &#8211; and handed the gong to another judge to present.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford graduate Miss Bendell said: &#8216;As I walked down to the stage she must have said she didn&#8217;t want to give me the award and I noticed a kerfuffle as she handed it over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was a real surprise that it happened at an event that was meant to celebrate the success of women. It certainly took the shine out of the day for me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Ann is a great proponent of women getting ahead by their own merits so I would have hoped that she would have recognised my achievements.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ann Widdecombe, as a <em>self-confessed virgin<\/em>, is in the most despised of society&#8217;s sub-cultures, whereas, the cool, sexually uninhibited Emily, on BlueBella.com, has achieved the pinnacle of pornography-chic by marketing the tasteful \u201csuede flogger\u201d, \u201csweetheart nipple tassels\u201d, \u201cpocket pinky love cuffs\u201d, &#8220;supersex beginner&#8217;s bondage\u00a0 tape double pack&#8221; and \u201csupersex luxury stroker\u201d. Perhaps one day Anne will see the light and acquire her own supersex luxury stroker.<\/p>\n<p>As the article notes, the only way that you can now shock a person is to show some reluctance in endorsing their assorted sweetheart nipple tassels:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Miss Bendell later asked what had happened she was shocked to hear that Miss Widdecombe had shunned her due to the nature of her business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I find the supersex beginner&#8217;s bondage tape double pack very handy for extemporaneous repairs to my ageing MX-5&#8217;s soft-top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prudery, of course. Former UK MP, Ann Widdecombe refused to present an award to the owner of a \u2013 nudge, wink &#8211; lingerie website owner. The tut-tutting, how could you do such a judgemental thing, article is here: Former MP &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-is-the-final-taboo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[289],"tags":[413,1262,2250],"class_list":["post-12266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexual-ethics","tag-ann-widdecombe","tag-prudery","tag-sexual-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}