Is this just me being all Mary Whitehouse or…

[liz70]

...is a billboard poster, in a public place - city centre train station - advertising a play with the title "My Dad Wrote a Porno" really appropriate? How the fuck do you answer your child's question "Mummy/Daddy etc., what's a porno? "

I didn't actually have DD3, 8, at the time, but as I say, it's in a public place where children will see it.

I must be getting an old fuddyduddy, because it just strikes me as well out of order.

“It’s a book for adults, darling” will do for young children, surely?

Agree. But when I asked about the appropriatenesss of “Buy Mummy something sexy” on the back of a Lush magazine placed in my mother’s day gift, people on here said I was being ridiculous My DS was 4/5 and even he said “Look, it has the S-E-X word”.

It’s a hard battle to preserve the innocence of children these days.

Really? That is not on. The very word porno has me squirming and if it was on a great big billboard I'd be hyperventilating.

It's on the stair wall down to a low level platform, Dame, so while not enormous, it's there.

Wouldn't bother me. Plus it's a brilliant podcast/show.

What else could the poster have on it, given that it's the name of the play?

Not everything needs to be suitable for children. Probably much more upsetting/worrying to DC who are primary age are the proleporn mags like Take A Break and Chat, with headlines like 'She Killed All My Babies' and cover pics of kids with their faces bashed up. Yet somehow these are widely acceptable. Even when they've got SEX BEAST and stuff about child abuse all over the covers.

They are doing a really big tour at the moment so not really sure how else they are going to advertise it!

I think you just brush it off with ‘it’s a play for adults, oh look that dog is cute’

There’s some graffiti on our walk home from school about porno and my dd has asked what it means and I just lied. I genuinely couldn’t think of any explanation off hand that was child friendly so I made up some bullshit.
Dd accepted it and started looking for the cute dog.

I don't think you need to explain in any detail what a porno is. 'It's a kind of book adults like. What would you like for tea?' should suffice.

I think it's fine. You can tell them what a porno is without making them watch one.

We were watching Mary Beard's History of Rome where she mentions that the latin for wolf is the same word they use for prostitute. DD (8) immediately asked what a prostitute was. I didn't want to lie to her (she already knows about sex and it was a straoght question) but it's not easy to make age appropriate. Thank you for that Mary Beard!