Times of the Signs
Stanley Green is asking for 11p. Outside Bond Street Station, he holds a wooden pole aloft in his left hand. On a slightly worn black sign hanging from it, ‘SPONSOR ME-BUY A BOOKLET 11p’ is written in muted blue and white paint. Beside it hangs a copy of the booklet itself. The sign above them begins ‘LESS LUST FROM LESS PROTEIN’. Green is wearing a knee-length slate-blue work coat with deep plum trousers. A muted brown shirt is set off with a dark burgundy tie. He wears a greyish-brown peaked hat and round wire-rimmed glasses. Across his chest sits a thick leather strap that holds a large box against his right hip. Inside it contains copies of his self-published booklet, Eight Passion Proteins With Care. Green, an almost daily presence on Oxford Street from 1969 until his death in 1993, argued that people who sat too much stored up excess protein and that this surplus in turn fuelled sexual desire. His advice was to eat less protein and to spend less time sitting down. He suggested that retirement could lead to heightened desire and trouble in a marriage.
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