To want Porn Star Martinis to be renamed?

[samarrange]

I don't think I'm a prude, but I feel a bit self-conscious ordering "A porn star martini, please". It's a shame because I quite like them.

We went into a "family-friendly" bar from a chain called "The Lounges" (every one has a different name, like Albero Lounge, Edmundo Lounge, etc) and on the menu there it says "Passion Fruit Martini... a cocktail fit for a movie star", which nicely conveys the idea without everyone having to explain to their curious 7-year-old reading the menu what a porn star is.

(The same chain has also renamed Sex On The Beach" to "Lounge On The Beach"... that one wouldn't put me off so much in the original form, but I don't like peach flavour drinks anyway 😂.)

@BlondiePortz
What happened to living in a free world?

No one ever chose to live in a world saturated with sexual references and imagery. I sat in a taxi recently with my daughter and the midday radio station had the hosts snickering over some off colour sexual escapade. I had to ask the driver to turn it off. If I want to hear that sort of stuff, I would like to choose when and where I hear it, not be bombarded with it on the way to the shops

This. A person’s freedom to make sexual references wherever and whenever they choose is not compatible with my freedom not to hear (or have children in my company hear) sexual references I find inappropriate.

We can’t both have total freedom to live exactly as we like and in my view, whose freedoms take priority depends on the location. If I attend ‘Chic Cocktail Pick-Up Joint’, 21 and over, advertising heavily aimed at ‘glamorous people going home with other glamorous people’, I’m unreasonable to swoon and clutch my pearls at cocktails named after sex acts.

If I’m in Families R Us, advertised with pictures of children in the attached play area, it’s not unreasonable for me to expect such cocktails to be renamed something I’d be happy to hear a 6 year old shriek across the crowded restaurant.