Deeply concerned about Child Safety in Bristol

[MatthewJTaylor]

From May 5th to May 8th 2022, the Tobacco Factory Theatres in Bristol is having performances of "The Family Sex Show".
This show is aimed at children 5 years old and up.
The performers involved get naked.
The discussion with the children is on sex, sexuality and sexual pleasure.

I cannot imagine brining a 5 year old child to a theatre where people will to to her/him about sex and show their naked bodies to her/him.

Am I the crazy one?

Sources:
The Family Sex Show website
Listing at The Tobacco Factory Theatres

I'm gobsmacked at this. I'm local to tobacco factory and will definitely complain to them. Will show this to local friends as well to warn them. Honestly just wtf, how could anyone find this appropriate for young children.

The tobacco theatre have a Facebook page and are advertising the show. I’d suggest going in there and leaving comments.

Yes to the comment about half-arsed amateurs, as in that is what is visible in front of us, for sure. But there is an iceberg of an agenda underneath. And the people pushing that agenda are not amateurs. And, as someone said not far upthread, we know who they are.

This is local to me. I am so, so upset at the thought of young children being exposed to this I've been to the tobacco factory over the years and now I have children myself I've been looking forward to taking them to the theatre one day (like all of us covid has got in the way so its something my children have never done). I'm so upset at the thought that what should be a safe creative space where children can be introduced into the joys of the performing arts is being given over to this kind of grooming and sexual indoctrination. I want to write to my MP, local councillors and the safeguarding board at BCC. Does anyone have access to a template letter I could use or just bullet points I can use as a starting point? I'm so upset I just don't know where to start with writing it.

I was going to the Tobacco Factory next week, will be going elsewhere now.

I think what people are missing is this follows exactly the same as what is taught now in schools. I’m often surprised what my children have on the PHSE curriculum and only know because they sometimes mention. I then feel v old.

Although obviously not naked 🤣

@Oaktree55 five year olds have simulated sex acts, naked adults and discussions of "gender" in a PHSE class?

@Oaktree55

I think what people are missing is this follows exactly the same as what is taught now in schools. I’m often surprised what my children have on the PHSE curriculum and only know because they sometimes mention. I then feel v old.

No. Thay have said that there as yet incomplete show adheres to NSPCC guidelines and that they follow the School of Sexuality Education.

The School of Sex Ed is aimed at an older age group

They don't say who has made that decision but, given their second assertion is not accurate how are we to belive the first, in a show that is as yet incomplete.

Adults being naked in front of 5 years olds = BIG ALARM BELL even if it does turn out to be harmless.

Safeguarding can never be assumed. It has to actually be done!

I think what people are missing is this follows exactly the same as what is taught now in schools.

Several posters have pointed out is based on the PHSE curriculum for older children, the show is being marketed for 5 years and up.

This is the contact page for the theatre hosting the show in Bristol:
tobaccofactorytheatres.com/contact-us/

Cross post. But as I have already said, the actual nudity is not the point, it is the context that it is in. Nudity on a family narurist beach with your family and other families, where everyone is nude and there is no sexual connotation, fine. Nudity in your family home, with no sexual commotation, if that is how you choose to live, also fine. Nudity by strange adults discussing sex in a room of children, in front of other adults, not fine.

Does anyone feel like it's an uphill struggle protecting their children from all this noncery and grooming at every turn? It's exhausting.

Actually thinking about it even if it is just an extension of school curriculum, local paedos can’t slip into the local classroom to join in whereas the local theatre they can.

I don't even have kids and I spend far too much of my time shouting at organisations abot such crap!

Changeychangeychange

Safe Schools Alliance are a safeguarding focussed group who challenge all sorts of unsuitable organisations targeting children and young people in schools with adult ideologies and boundary breaching porn advocacy.

They've tweeted about this and they have excellent sample letters on their website for parents concerned about what's happening in schools:

safeschoolsallianceuk.net/

That is a very good point ineed @Oaktree55. Although of course there were/are peadophile teachers (sadly I have come across many such cases) in general, formal sex ed in schools is delivered in a safe and controlled environment if it is done right. And I presume those organisations who have formulated guidelines for such education have that specific nvironment in mind.

In this case, even if it adheres to some "guidelines" or other (and how can it really when guidelines are age-specfic and this seems very much not to be) , this is "education" being delivered in a public space with no knowledge of who else might be there. And of course we all know exactly who will be there, dotted among the five-year-olds (said five-year-olds being very much part of the "entertainment" (ie arousal material) for them). Normalise normlaise normalise. Something that is completely valid and necessary (sex ed for young children) but should be done in a careful way by trained people, is normalised as public entertainment.

@Sweetpea84

The tobacco theatre have a Facebook page and are advertising the show. I’d suggest going in there and leaving comments.

Comments are being deleted.

(wish there was a bloody spellcheck on MN!)

@SamphirethePogoingStickerist when you say "they" are the rainbow dildo butt monkey people, who are "they"? This theatre company?

@QuebecBagnet

Why does any adult need to get naked infront of small children they’re not related to?

This should be in 10 foot tall neon lights.

Those who don't think this show is a problem ... can you answer this posters question please?

@Lockheart

I think you're misreprenting a tad..

This show is aimed at children 5 years old and up.

Not quite, it's aimed at all ages from 5+.

The performers involved get naked.

At one point for a couple of minutes if they feel comfortable (this is explicitly stated, if you'll pardon the pun, in the FAQs).

The discussion with the children is on sex, sexuality and sexual pleasure.

It's a theatre show, there are no sit down chats with the children.

What sort of screwed up individual decides they are comfortable getting naked in front of kids?

@EmmaH2022

This on the FAQs

"Use pleasure as a vehicle for consent - knowing why we might say yes so we know when to say no."

Bloody hell.

Jesus Christ. Because the only time you'd want to say no is because it's not pleasurable? Od agree with a pp this has MAP cheerleading written all over it.

Not enough red flags in the fucking world for this

[quote WalkerWalking]**@SamphirethePogoingStickerist when you say "they" are the rainbow dildo butt monkey people, who are "they"? This theatre company?[/quote]
Hold that thought, I'll grab the info. I closed the tab so will have to get it again. It is one of the venues and some of the funders, iirc. I should have been clearer.

@tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz it's important to contextualise. It's not just "getting naked in front of kids", just like it's not just "letting you be you" or whatever nonsense.

In the first one it is in the context of adults getting naked in front of kids while talking to them about sex

In the second it is in the context of telling five-year-olds that "being you" includes deciding your gender ideology and sexual preferences.