Fund fun ruled out
NZPA London Council bosses’ assertions that it is immoral to kiss strangers has led to a team of sexy “kissogram girls” in Britain being banned from helping charity. The girls, employed by a kissogram agency, hoped to raise £lOOO ($2300) for cancer research, the “Daily Mirror” newspaper reports. “Goodness knows what tourists would think if they were approached by a girl in bra, pants, and suspenders and asked to pay 50p ($1.28) for the privilege of a
kiss,” said a spokesman for the Labour-controlled council in Peterborough, north of London. The girls were willing to sell kisses for seven hours in the city square. But when the council heard of the plans, it warned the girls that they faced the possibility of arrest. “We do not want the tone of the area lowered,” said the spokesman. “I think the council has caught sunstroke,” said a kissogram organiser, Tony Scibelli. A spokesman for the charity said: “We are surprised at the council’s attitude. It . would all have been a bit of fund fun.”
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Press, 16 July 1983, Page 7
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