The Family Sex Show to continue, despite widespread outrage

It's this bit:

Remember: not all women have vulvas, and not all vulvas belong to women.

In bold which is so bloody obnoxious. The only bold text on the page. Obviously we don't need to remember the same thing about penises as a pp said.

I can't believe a bloody woman set this up. Idiotic.

Other stuff would need trigger warnings.

Their Zine section may well be their undoing. All their claims about being family orientated, safeguarding centred are unraveling. Because they believe in this shit. And the more they push it, the more they reveal.

I prefer to think of them as absolutely clueless rather than sinister. I really, really hope so.

It's so disturbing, it's Linda they're deliberately doing it to be outrageous and vulgar to the """right wing christians""". Messed up, I could not have processed this at 5.

Maybe the Children’s Minister Will Quince?

I just saw this too @FOJN
How anyone can think this is ok is nuts. Search and draw a masturbating animal FFS, and obviously the results will include men too.

This time?

Awful, awful resource. Interesting that the standard disclaimer about women & vulvas is added, but not men & penises?

Hopefully screenshots attached!

This is a set of resources aimed at 5 year olds that tries to get them to think about animals masturbating.

WTF??

Is there anyone we report our concerns to?

Has anybody tried Googling 'animals that masturbate'? I'm scared to try. Don't want that in my search history.

Yeah, I googled it. Yeah, I don't want my kids seeing any of the results.

How are the police not involved with this?

From their website If some of your pleasures are sexual, are there any sexual practices you might like to try? A show for ages 5 and up.

"It's messy, but it'll be alright", I'm having real problems with that one!

incredibly naive and they shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near child education.

Yes. They're either blissfully unaware and utterly naive, in which case need to go and do some reading/training; or the alternative is they are doing this in full awareness of how it undermines safeguarding and children's boundaries.

Bloody autocorrect. Master action and master axiom should have been masturbation

Bloody hell that page about bodies and touch

thefamilysexshow.com/bodies-touch

First question “What sort of things do you touch that make you feel nice and warm?” Suggests fluffy slippers and hugging best friends as answers.

Then a note about people being different “If one day, you don’t want to be touched in a particular way, that’s absolutely okay. You decide what feels good for you.”

(I’m sure they point to that and say look we’re teaching about consent but that language sounds creepy to me given what we know about CSA and how children feel confused and guilty for going along with it)

Then launches into masturbation as a topic as PP mentioned above. Suggests researching animal master action on the internet!

And suggests modelling genitals out of playdoh.

New paragraph “The vulva is what is commonly and mistakenly called the vagina.

The vagina is only the tunnel inside the body - where you might insert a tampon. The vulva is the outside part of some people’s genitals. Remember: not all women have vulvas, and not all vulvas belong to women. Have a go at drawing and labelling your own vulva!“

A child reading this could be very confused about which bodies have a “tunnel”. It the obligatory not all women …

Loads of technical details about clitorises, labia, urethra - this is not language that is accessible and appropriate for all ages. Mentions that it feels nice for some people (which people?). A child reading this would be very confused.

Then “now have a go at drawing a penis” (no mention of who has a penis). Again a description that is not accessible and (again it feels nice for some people)

Then from Penis discussions like to a video showing people hugging behind a screen and then shown to be same sex couples, mixed race couples with slogans like love love no gender / race / disability/ religion.
I don’t mind the video, it’s a bit twee but ok.
However the positioning of the video just after penis discussions then a “How did the video make you feel?” makes me feel like these people don’t understand child safeguarding at all. The way they have jumped from topics about nice touch to master axiom and genitals if it isn’t deliberate grooming, then is incredibly naive and they shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near child education.

If it wasn’t so serious the quote tweets would be like live comedy.

Someone just wrote: “It could be any one of us next.”

Yes, it could be. If you decide to try to persuade 5 year olds to do worksheets about animals playing with their genitals, people will take issue with that.

Sorry (not sorry).

“what sexual practices would you like to try?”

Honestly,this makes me feel ill. I am so disgusted with this ideology . Wee ones can't consent. I dread to think who will attend these manky shows and the consequences for the children involved. How the hell did this filth get Arts Council funding ?

I’m extremely relieved that the tour has been cancelled. As for the ‘invited audience’… who knows. I assume friends and family and theatre staff. Hopefully not a school or similar.

Absurdle

Exactly. The language is for young children. The show is for young children.

Plain sight.

thefamilysexshow.com/loving-ourselves

This is unreal. It starts off with completely nonsexual harmless self-care stuff then escalates to asking what body parts the (presumable child) audience likes having touched and ends up with “what sexual practices would you like to try?”

There’s no indication of the age it’s intended for but the simplistic language seems geared for younger children.

I’m not saying this is a worksheet designed for a pedophile to groom his target with but I’m unclear who the fuck else it could possibly be for.

Links in that zine to an activity making genitals out of playdough.

squishsquashsquelch.com/2018/10/28/playing-around/

horrendous.