The British Thong Society: October 2006

Friday, October 13, 2006

The Thong Journal

The latest edition of The Thong Journal has come back from the printers and we will be sending it out to Society members in the next few days. The journal is a bumper edition this year, with seventeen articles and dozens of reviews of the latest in thongs. We also have a special interview with TV actor David Jason on why he became a late convert to the thong. It also has the usual competitions, prize drawers, and reports of thong-related events across the country.

For non-members, the Journal is priced £8.00 and can be purchased by writing to the Society at the above address.

Sunday, October 1, 2006

Subscription Renewal Notice

Membership subscriptions are to rise by £2 this year, the first rise in nearly a decade. Members are advised to get their subscriptions in as soon as possible as we’re currently dealing with a backlog in applications after a huge rise in interest in thongs after Peter Goyle's excellent series of documentaries.

From October 2006, a year's membership to the society is now £22, which includes two copies of The Thong Journal and conference fees for the yearly Thong Conference.

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The British Thong Society was established in 1912 by Sir Henry Peel, who during his travels in the East, discovered the real and practical benefits of wearing the G string. The society soon had a select membership which included H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and polar explorer Captain Scott. Over the years, the Society has run events promoting thong wearing across the UK and in 1988 played host to the Duke of Edinburgh at the Society’s club in London.

The Society continues its activities, many of which are charitable and help the underprivileged. We donate over 3000 thongs to the poor each year and have recently opened offices in New York and Los Angeles, hoping to export our message across the globe.

Our Founder

Sir Henry Peel was one of the greatest minds of the late Victorian age. He was an explorer, discovering some of the remotest tribes of South America, and travelled widely in the East, including China and Japan where he was one of the earliest Europeans to adopt the wearing of the fundoshi.

Returning to England, Sir Henry became a philanthropist, eventually setting up The British Thong Society.

His death in 1927 was one of the widely reported events of the decade. Each year at the small family church in Knots End, Surrey, members of the British Thong Society lay a commemorative thong on his grave to mark the very great things Sir Henry achieved and our abiding loyalty to his legacy.