in thinking that this is sick? (WARNING possible triggers)

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

Sorry for Daily Mail link

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2465359/The-Scare-Kingdom-Scream-Park-branded-degrading-rape-charity.html

This can't be real? People actually would pay for this and call it entertainment? I can understand if you like horror movies that you might like the idea of paying to be scared but this attraction is taking it one step too far....

Yes but rape is mentioned.

It isn't rape simulation at all. People are paying knowing what will happen to them. If they like it so what.

By the way, I suspect that the female visitor was a journalist they sent to experience the thing for herself, which may explain why she didn't use the safe word. I saw a very similar article on the Lancashire Evening News website.

"Old and pearl-clutching"

You could well be right. This must be what happens when I forsake wine for a nice Horlicks at this time at night

SP, I hope the words in the hyperlink would have stopped anyone clicking on it if it was someone who needed to avoid seeing such things. I apologise if anyone has clicked on it by accident and who has been upset by it.

Can somebody C&P for those who don't want to click on DM link.

Sorry I missed out a please there.

Well I don't care - if it makes me old and pearl-clutching to be saddened that this is what the yoof do by way of entertainment these days, then bring on the Horlicks and pearls.

Who said it was 'the yoof'.

Its just what some people want to do. It doesn't affect anyone but them. I'm not offended by it or even see it as a rape simulation as that's not what it is.

Different people like different things. If they are paying for this experience and doing it willingly whats the issue?

mardy I tried but my phone couldn't deal with the pictures. Google the link information and see if any other articles come up. Tbh its a DM only one I think

m.lep.co.uk/news/scare-festival-slammed-by-rape-charities-1-6154596

I think the DM pulled it from this local paper.

Thanks for looking SPs.

And thanks for the link Curly.

Ok. Read it now. Sick and unacceptable imo.

I don't think the "attraction" is shocking but calling it rape simulation is. Because it doesn't seem to be that at all.

It's real I remember a thread on here last year from an op who had taken her kids I think? Not into the over 18 bit but the main park and found it all a bit too much. I don't think they had the sex bit in last year but lots of posters were all for the living horror movie experience.

There is also a fairly horrific campsite you can go to to be terrified and abused over a weekend too, nice.

I don't get it at all, but people know they are signing up for anything goes., I don't find the sexual element any worse than the mutilation and murder, it's all equally fucked up.

Sorry it should have read yhis thread should have a dm warning not trigger

I suppose the Rape Crisis woman is reading about the being chained down, the pillow over face, the man getting on top of you waving a dildo, and she is somehow being reminded of violent abuse towards women. Funny, that. I have no idea how those particular things made her think along those lines.

That was to Hula's post, by the way.

But I'm guessing men may be also paying for this thing too. They are also told what will happen and they sign a form. They willingly go ahead and pay for this.

Rape simulation is one thing it isn't.

Its people paying for some strange thing to happen to them for reasons only known to them.

Each to their own.

I am usually an "each to their own" kind of person. But this seems a bit different, unless it is all just being hyped up to make a story. I guess the litmus test for me is imagining how I would feel if I knew one of my children's teachers, say, had been there and enjoyed it. It would make me see them in a different light and well, lose a bit of respect for them frankly. The only women I know who have been to the scare farm things are frankly quite immature for their age and well, not the brightest (to put it bluntly) or most forthcoming with their views on things like feminist issues.

Well I wouldn't judge anyone for doing it. Doesn't affect me or anyone else.

I wouldn't change my view of a teacher because of it. It doesn't make them any less of a decent person just because they paid £3.50 for something at a scare farm, in their own time.

Going to a scare farm doesn't make you immature, not bright or have anything to do with feminist views. It is people of both sexes no doubt paying for something the were pre warned about willingly.

I see no feminist issue there.

Or mental health issues, come to that. I have a lovely friend who recently was in a mental health unit for a few weeks. The whole "pretend you're a mental patient" for entertainment is also something I have a problem with.

No, I am sorry, but I just don't get it at all.

Off to bed now muttering to self about people's warped idea of fun....

There are many horror films around insane asylums and 'mental patients' that's why its there.

Just because you don't get it doesn't mean purple who willingly go are wrong

And people can go out and so all sorts of things willingly and knowingly but it doesn't make it alright. Getting so shitfaced every time they go on a night out that they end up in the gutter, getting arrested or taken to hospital. Done knowingly and willingly but I can still express dismay that people choose to behave like that as their idea of a good night out.