about anal sex on Radio 4?

[Mintyy]

I'm a bit at todays afternoon play ... and I might be pissed off if I had a preschooler at home with me asking "what is anal sex mummy".

Mintyy is most definitely NOT a prude

I'm intrigued about what the play was about! It's not prudish to not want Anal Sex as an accompaniment to your lunch!

i haven't listened to radio 4 afternoon plays for years. complain to the bbc, was there a warning before the play began?

i'm with you mintyy. you're not an old prude, you're quite reasonable.

I would be surprised that they had picked up on it tbh, ime R4 plays are not that exciting! In fact when she was a baby R4 was about the only thing guaranteed to put DD to sleep :o

Those Radio 4 afternoon plays are weird. Would never have thought they'd do anal though!

Yanbu. People can come to Mumsnet if they want to be exposed to that sort of filth and depravity.

I always miss the good plays.

Was it about centre parks? Lol

Note to self to look on catch up

I was in the car with my parents and my astute five year old when an afternoon play came on the radio once. The sound of rampant shagging - grunts, squelches, slappings, wailings, groans and heavy breathing filled the airwaves for what seemed like at least thirty seconds. For the first time in years I was properly embarrassed!

This one had references to having sex, porn, anal sex ... only talked about, not acted out, but could/would you have this on tv before the watershed?

Yanbu to expect a warning if there's going to be adult content.

Yabu to think of anal sex as somehow 'worse' than any other recreational sex act :)

Anal sex on Radio 4??? Gosh, doesn't seem like it fits with the shipping forecast and Women's Hour!

I'm a little bit tempted to look up this play later!

At least it was not during The Archers! YANBU.

You know the Mail is going to pick up on this thread and quote you in yet another Beeb bashing article...

Radio 4? Are you sure?

Really tigermoll? Is anal sex seen as a totally mainstream thing these days? I am so out of touch.

YANBU. No way that's acceptable mid-afternoon. As an aside though, while I love Radio 4, the afternoon plays are complete tosh. Embarrassingly bad stuff as a rule.

Agree that most R4 afternoon plays are crap . However there is no watershed so maybe don't listen when littlies are about .

Hi Mintyy :) I just meant that anal has this 'dirty' reputation, as if it's somehow more perverse/degrading/weird/disgusting than of the other activities that take place between consenting adults. When really it's just another recreational sex act, and shouldn't be considered shameful.

YABU but purely because you listened to the Afternoon Play which is invariably dreadful.

Hmm, I can't quite let go of the idea that anal sex is actually dirty. But there you go, as I said, am old fashioned and probably behind the times.

I didn't really listen to the play, in my defence . Am surprised there is no watershed on the radio.

All sex is dirty. If it's done correctly.

I am in no way prudish, but anal sex on radio 4 in the afternoon?! Never mind a preschooler, what if I'd had it on and been sat with... My mum!!

Anal sex on the radio? I usually bend over the pouffe.