What is a Mars Bar Party?

[Philip Howells]

In article <CnJ2o...@festival.ed.ac.uk> d...@castle.ed.ac.uk "B Nelson" writes:

> There has been a lot of controversy in the UK recently about a sex
> education class for a bunch of 11 year olds developing into an explicit
> discussion on oral sex and 'Mars Bar Parties'. Does anyone know what a
> Mars Bar Party is? I am worried that I have been missing out over the
> years by naively assuming this was something you ate chocolate bars at?
>
Responding to this really makes me feel old! :) - and the man's had time to do a doctorate as well!.

During the 60's there was a press report which has now taken on the proportions
of folklore concerning Mick Jagger and (I think) Marrianne Faithful who
indulged in sexual antics which involved substituting a Mars Bar for a dildo.
And as a matter of fact, this was long before Mars introduced the King Size
version.

--
Philip Howells
Manchester UK
CompuServe 100042,1434

[Michael Robinson]

B Nelson (d...@castle.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: There has been a lot of controversy in the UK recently about a sex

: education class for a bunch of 11 year olds developing into an explicit
: discussion on oral sex and 'Mars Bar Parties'. Does anyone know what a
: Mars Bar Party is? I am worried that I have been missing out over the
: years by naively assuming this was something you ate chocolate bars at?

On the assumption that the story has become part of popular culture,
I would guess that this goes back to the Rolling Stones drug bust
which occurred about 1967. Marianne Faithfull (Mick Jagger's girl
friend at the time) was apparently arrested wearing nothing but a
large woolly rug.

The connection with the Mars Bars is that part of the entertainment
at this event was supposedly that Marianne was inserting Mars Bars
in her ... er ... and Mick was ... er ... well, you get the idea.
I'm not sure where the story came from. It seems to me looking back
on it now that it has a lot of the characteristics of an urban legend.

Michael Robinson

[chap...@delphi.com]

It should be pointed out:
British Mars Bar = American Milky Way
British Milky Way = American Three Musketeers
American Mars Bar, I never saw in Britain.
I'm sure this straightens it all out, or at least
removes the almonds from the equation.

Philip Craig Chapman-Bell
chap...@delphi.com

[Philip Howells]

In article <xw4NaMB....@delphi.com> chap...@delphi.com writes:

> It should be pointed out:
> British Mars Bar = American Milky Way
> British Milky Way = American Three Musketeers
> American Mars Bar, I never saw in Britain.
> I'm sure this straightens it all out, or at least
> removes the almonds from the equation.
>

I think you'll find that the American Mars Bar = British Milky Way. It's the
Three Musketeers (reference to the three flavours) that didn't make the
transition. See the Independent's "history" of a few years back.