The British Are a Bunch of Preverts

One of the things you hear Brits say quite often about Americans is that we are prudes. I happen to disagree, but it's no wonder they think that. This is the country where you can see an hour long TV show on vaginoplastys, I'm not even kidding. And this wasn't HBO or something, this was BBC, which is available in every household. And it was during primetime. So I shouldn't be surprised that not 10 minutes from our house this weekend, the world's largest erotica show was taking place:

http://www.erotica-uk.com/

We happened to be headed to Ikea today to replace a couple plates we've broken during our stay here, which took us past the entrance to said erotica show. Let me digress for a minute and explain how truly crappy it is to not own a car anymore. The Ikea in London is no more then 10 miles away, probably somewhere around 7 or 8. In a car, it'd take me about 15-20 minutes depending on traffic. But sans car is another story. The journey starts with a 10 minute walk to the London Overground. On Sundays this service runs once every half hour, so after 20 minutes of waiting we go 2 stops, which takes 5 minutes, and switch to the London Underground. After a 5 minute wait for the tube the ride is another 5 minutes just to get to the Ikea shuttle pick up. It's supposed to be every half hour on the hour, and we arrived at 2:57pm. Apparently the driver is impatient so we then waited 30 minutes for our 5 minute ride to the store.

Grand total: 1 hour, 20 minutes and 3 modes of transport. Marathon runners could have beat us there on foot.

Anyway, back to the porn. We show up at the Overground station which is literally on the doorstep of the convention hall. And let me tell you, I saw more corsets, stockings, and all around freak shows than I could have imagined. I'm not judging, to each their own. It's just incredible the draw this thing had. To be fair, there were tons of people that could have been Jim from accounting or Lisa from HR. These could have been the people that babysit your kids or do your taxes. I guess it takes all types. And who am I to talk, me and my porn 'stache would have fit in quite nicely.