The latest nonsense...

Peer Rope Cambridge, a BDSM group, intended to hire a village hall for an event, however following some (as usual) over-blown coverage in the local media with lots of salacious nudge-nudge tittle-tattle, the Trustees cancelled the booking claiming it had been made "under false pretences".

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Village-hall-in-Cambridge-offers-bondage-on-a-budget-workshops-with-tea-and-biscuits-thrown-in-20130925043928.htm

The story has now hit the mainstream media with this article from the BBC and similar ones in The Guardian and other press.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-24240287

Frankly this is a complete storm in a teacup with lots of prurient lip-smacking details (mostly grubbed from the event's flyers or website by slothful journalists) and a quote from an "outraged" great-grandmother.

Some people have said that this is not the sort of pubicity that BDSM needs, however I think that it's actually positive because although, in the short term, it may put people off attending or even organising such events, in the long run many people will look at the reaction of the Trustees and think "what a prudish bunch of idiots".

If you don't like something, don't go to it, but don't try to stop others from enjoying something which does no harm by saying "We don't like it, so you're not allowed to do it!"

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David Cameron's Nanny State

So, in a deperate attempt, it seems, to claw back some of the voters it's lost to UKIP, in a totally hypocritical move David Cameron wants to introduce Nanny State legislation banning a huge swathe of internet pornography whilst, at the same time, deciding that adults need to be treated as children by making all households internet connetions have "default on" filters.

Was this the same Tory Party who were criticising the last Labour Governmetn for wanting to censor the internet? Why, I believe it was!

Meanwhile, of course, what happens to perfectly legal and legitimate businesses like mine? Affordable Leather Products sells leather bondage and BDSM equipment to consenting adults, yet we will no doubt be swept up in the moral panic that he's created.

What won't help, ironically, is that, being a reputable and responsible business, we already have a warning page at the front of our site and it's marked "18+ only" and "adults only" etc so making us an obvious target for filtering, whereas less reputable site don't bother with such warnings and could easily slip through the net.

So when you're in the mood to buy some adult toys such as floggers, or our deluxe leather wrist and ankle cuffs or maybe a collar or a gag and you start searching, Affordable Leather Products may not appear on your list of search results because you need to be "protected" from our "corrosive images".

Thank you Big Brother...

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