A Detailed Look At “The Family Sex Show”

I’ve just seen my email CitizenGo great news

Thank you for those who posted links and raised the issue I think it was in AIBU first

Please tell me that doctor isn't advocating for a 12 year old being able to "opt in" to
consentual sex? Please tell me I have read it wrong and he's actually talking about driving?

Sure is interesting that all the anti-MAP people are TERFs.

He means that in a bad way doesn’t he? Ugh.

Long run, the strategy won’t be to persuade parents and fully grown adults that pedophilia is fine and acceptable. It will be to persuade easily-influenced teenagers and various vacuous types in their twenties, and join their voices to the voices of the many adult men who have a direct personal interest in seeing their paraphilia normalised. I think there’s precedent for this strategy working.

Yes I think now is the time to ask questions about who exactly green lighted this sordid little ‘show’ and why they thought it was a good idea. Can we make a FOI request from the Arts Council I wonder?

ThisEgg are rightly left with egg on their faces and the arts council England should be taking to task about how this was given the go ahead in the first place.

Excellent news @MrsDanversBroom! So well done to you! : )

Great update, well done everyone who put pressure on.

Good update.

Oh, I had an email from CitizenGo saying it had:

“The producers behind the Family Sex Show have announced that their exploitative and potentially abusive production has now been scrapped from theatres. The show will no longer go ahead in Bristol or at the Norwich festival and will only be performed to a ‘selected invited audience’ at Bath.

I just phoned the box office Egg theatre in Bath to see whether or not tickets were available to purchase by members of the general public and staff confirmed that they had been taken off sale.

This is a phenomenal victory and thanks to the almost 39,000 of you who signed our petition.

The producers of the show are unrepentant, claiming that the cancellation is due to illegal threats of violence and abuse from a ‘few extremists’.

Sadly, it seems as though the producers have learned nothing. There was nothing in our campaign that constituted either abuse or violent threats and we hope that any illegality has been duly reported to the police.

39,000 people is not a handful of ‘extremists’ either. This was thousands of ordinary mums, dads, aunts, uncles, grandparents and godparents, standing up in defence of children.
The show was never about educating children, but prematurely sexualising them. Children were being subjected to full-frontal adult nudity without their consent and introduced to inappropriate topics like BDSM.

The Family Sex Show repeatedly claimed that they had taken advice from child safeguarding experts, however the show contravened NSPCC guidelines. After they were contacted, the NSPCC also said that not only had they never heard of it, they also had no input into devising it

A number of CitizenGO members contacted me directly to let me know that they had also outlined the contents of the Family Sex Show to their local police force to ascertain whether or not the production was in breach of any indecent exposure or child protection laws, and that the police also expressed their concern.

It is a violation of children’s rights and boundaries for an adult to strip naked in front of them and initiate conversations of a sexually explicit nature.

The campaign was never about banning freedom of expression, but protecting children.

I had been been planning to step up the campaign today and had a number of offline actions planned, that will now no longer be necessary.

I will be watching developments closely over the next week however and will not hesitate to act should it emerge that children will be attending the private performance. The show has yet to confirm whether or not the performers who are so keen to strip in front of children have been subject to any DBS checks or what checks are being made on those adults who would wish to take children to this performance.

The campaign was phenomenally successful and picked up by a number of media outlets and social media influencers. I made two interventions on Talk Radio and BBC Radio Bristol and we featured in a number of excellent articles. “

Not quite, MrsDAnvers: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4533410-The-Family-Sex-Show-to-continue-despite-widespread-outrage

Cancelled!

www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/the-family-sex-show-cancelled-in-norwich-8905696

That piece reminds me of that weirdo Jeffrey with the creepy voice and mad eyes.

[quote DomesticatedZombie]Good god:

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Jesus that is creepy. Has nothing been learned from Saville? A guy being openly creepy and inappropriate around children isn't just a good ol' eccentric, he is a danger.

As an aside there is a thread on Scotsnet about filling in a questionnaire and it would be much appreciated if anyone on here from Scotland fills it in.

Sorry I just reread your comment and you have already seen that thread.
It’s worth more people on here taking a look at that thread.

Those True Believes are also know as paedophiles. I wonder if they believe that there shouldn't be a minimum age for other things such as smoking, driving a car, buying a shot gun or is their liberal stance only concerned with adults wanting to have sexual contact with minors.

From: www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-sexual-revolution-and-children-how-the-left-took-things-too-far-a-702679.html

members of the 1968 movement and their successors were caught up in a strange obsession about childhood sexuality. It is a chapter of the movement's history which is never mentioned in the more glowing accounts of the era. On this issue, the veterans of the late '60s student movement seem to have succumbed to acute amnesia; an analysis of this aspect of the student revolution would certainly be worthwhile.

It's the dishonesty around this. There are repeated calls for hidden accounts in history and that there needs to be a way to archive and account for failed research as well as published research. There's a current thread about the SNP Education Committee that is based on a thesis that reproduces many of these ideas around children and consent to sex. Yet, it's all based on Foucault and similar without any acknowledgement of 'research' like this.

I've never found it again but I recall reading an outstanding essay about the social value of a shared sense of moral disgust. In an environment where the abuse and exploitation of children is still unseen or minimised and all too common, it's a provocation to this shared sense of moral disgust. This is not an area in which moral disgust is to be problematised or 'solutions' offered to educate people out of it: we need to exist in a society with strong safeguarding measures in which children and vulnerable people are protected from abuse and exploitation.

It's a PR game now.
(And i suspect funding may depend on at least one "live" show.)

They are doing a show with invited guests.

Guests do a review.

Getting naked and taking about sex gets a "nothing to see here" review.

Or they manage to get a U rated show.
Actors don't talk about sexual relationships, don't get naked and consent is about how nobody engages in sexual activity (because the actors are talking in an age appropiate way to a 5 year old child).

Haha! Their snivelling self pity doesn’t surprise me at all. Anything to avoid admitting there are serious safeguarding questions around the show. Much better to blame the right wing bogeyman.

Their Twitter account had many, many comments from people calling them 'groomers'.

I don't know if that is really 'threats', is it? Nor even abuse, just sounds like lots of people saying what they see.

Personally, I'd have worded it differently, as I think it's maybe slightly more complex than that.