| Description | In 1970, the first Ann Summers shop selling lingerie and sex toys opened in Marble Arch, London and in the same year, proposals were put forward to open a similar shop in Birmingham. This proposal was met with some controversy and Warwickshire Monthly Meeting asked the Marriage Advisors Panel to consider the issue. The majority of this file contains correspondence and reports in which members of the panel discuss whether or not the issue is a cause for concern.
Includes a 1970 report by a working party of the Social Responsibility Department of the Birmingham Council of Christian Churches which considers the implications of opening what was termed a 'Sex-Supermarket', and a report in the same year of a visit by Wilfred A. Beswick, Warwickshire Monthly Meeting's representative at a meeting of the Executive Birmingham Council of Christian Churches, to the newly opened Ann Summers, Marble Arch, London. |