Around the same time, she allied herself with campaigns to support public decency, and was briefly associated with Mary Whitehouse, becoming chairwoman of the London branch of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association. In this role, she attempted to launch a number of prosecutions against productions and writers that offended her sense of taste, including the producers of the theatrical revue "Oh! Calcutta!" and actor John Bird, the author of the play "Council of Love", whom she accused of blasphemy. After seeing "Oh! Calcutta!" on 27 July 1970 with its abundance of full frontal nudity of both sexes, she went to the police station to demand that Kenneth Tynan, the producer of "Oh! Calcutta!", be charged with obscenity. Her "manic persistence and weird taste in spectacles" made her into a media favorite, who could be counted upon to say something outrageous when the press spoke to her. The "Manchester Guardian" called her in 1970 "the sharpest thorn in the side of the permissive society".