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She Fucked the System (And We Applauded)
The Woman Who Taught a Nation How to Fuck and Died in Poverty
Fuck, in the 90s it was easier to buy an AK-47 than a sex video at Woolworths. Until Wendy-Ann Paige showed up and blew everything to hell. 1.3 million people bought The Lovers’ Guide — yeah, right there between grandma’s stockings and Cadbury chocolates.
In an era when your best sex ed was either a moldy library book or an awkward conversation with your parents. British society was so uptight that a TV kiss after 9 PM caused a national scandal.
It all started with an ad in a swingers’ magazine. Wild story: a marketing director and a sound engineer meet over fixing a filing cabinet. Tony, the guy who worked with the band Madness, showed up at her office in ’89, fixed a broken cabinet and ended up fixing way more than that.
Two years later, there they were, answering an ad that would change fucking everything. The couple that started with a stuck drawer ended up unlocking an entire nation’s sexuality.
35 guys with cameras in a West London studio, just one woman on the crew. Wendy’s there, on the floor, cool as fuck, doing what nobody else had the guts to do. First scene? Masturbating in front of everyone.
