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

[theDudesmummy]

I think we all know that the real aim of this show is not to teach five-year-olds about sex. As I have said before in this thread there is an agenda behind this, something much much larger than one group of misguided "creatives", who are being groomed themselves by the real forces behind this trend.

[veronicagoldberg]

I think this site is a hot bed of bigotry and ignorance and intolerance

Why do you think that, @MummyPebble? I've been her over 10 years under various usernames, and haven't seen much of those things at all.

[FabFitFifties]

"Those who think it's outrageous/grooming, do you actually know what is on that age group's curriculum and how your school delivers it?" Yes I do, and all lessons are delivered by clothed adults.

[Alonelonelylonersbadidea]

The Guardian review makes it sound quite good,
I wouldn't take a 5 year old (it would be bastard boring for a 5 year old) but a teen certainly.

[theDudesmummy]

The Guardian review was a disgrace

[SolasAnla]

[quote Teesht]I've emailed everyone I can think of - posting again should anyone else want to join me!

E-mail the papers to make some noise: [email protected]
More contact details here: //www.bristolpost.co.uk/contact-us/

Tabloids: [email protected]
[email protected]

E-mail the MP for that area:
[email protected]

The NSPCC: [email protected]

E-mail the mayor: [email protected]

If you can find contact details for the board of trustees than that'd be great: tobaccofactorytheatres.com/our-trustees/[/quote]
MummyPebble
I am as left and liberal as they come. I think this site is a hot bed of bigotry and ignorance and intolerance so if I agree with the majority of posters for once then this show must be awful and a genuinely bad idea.

Is this statement why you had to qualify your closing paragraph.
Or why you are unsure about what you can do to try change the outcome?

It just seems bloody dangerous for a whole number of reasons and I'm shocked at no point someone, not ONE person didn't stop and say "hang on....".

Teesht read the thread and spent time collecting the contacts above.

Thanks @Teesht for the input.

I'd love to see it pulled but it seems to be forging ahead so the best we can hope for now is no children are harmed as a result of this. This is genuinely upsetting.

Teesht provided the contact details and many posters have raised a number of valuable points which you can use to communicate your objection to the event happening.

[backtobusy]

I wouldn't place any confidence in the Gaurdian's ability to judge safeguarding issues.
They were very supportive of the rubber fetishist who filmed himself wanking in the toilets while at work and uploaded it onto the internet. Regardless of the fact that the individual worked for the NSPCC at the time.

[DomesticatedZombie]

I am as left and liberal as they come. I think this site is a hot bed of bigotry and ignorance and intolerance so if I agree with the majority of posters for once then this show must be awful and a genuinely bad idea. It just seems bloody dangerous for a whole number of reasons and I'm shocked at no point someone, not ONE person didn't stop and say "hang on....". I'd love to see it pulled but it seems to be forging ahead so the best we can hope for now is no children are harmed as a result of this. This is genuinely upsetting

So, Mummyofpebble, what first attracted you to a hotbed of bigotry, ignorance and intolerance?

[MummyPebble]

DomesticatedZombie - I mostly stick to the Christmas bargain thread which is actually lovely.

[MummyPebble]

@HRTQueen right and? Good for you 🤷‍♀️ I still think this show is incredibly wrong. If you don't because you're more liberal, empathetic and intelligent then I think I'll stick with my levels of liberalness, empathy and intelligence, at least that keeps my daughter safe.

[myteethwerefine]

I guess that @MummyPebble is one of the cool girls who are happy for becocked 'women' to force their presence on vulnerable women's places which are supposedly safe from men (refuges, prisons, abuse survivors groups) regardless of those women's feelings. Hopefully this production will open her eyes to the dangers of eroding women's and children's boundaries.....but I wouldn't count on it. It's clearly only a problem when it's affecting her own innocent little darlings.

[gregaliara]

its called GROOMING

[MummyPebble]

@SolasAnla I'm concerned it's too near to opening and too late for it to be pulled now. Tickets have been sold and the venues won't want to lose the money, especially after the last couple of years. Also The Egg seem to be staunchly ignoring the criticism and the venues are refusing to discuss it.

The "mumsnet outrage" and DM coverage will probably just confirm to them they ARE doing the right thing and will spur them on. I know certain factions will wear shit like that as a badge of honour. To be clear I'm not saying there shouldn't have been outrage and the DM shouldn't have covered it, they absolutely should have but I just know what these people are like.

Having said all that I hope I'm wrong and I hope something is done.

[Dinosauria]

Myteeth but I think she is saying that even she hasn't drunk enough KoolAid to think this is a good idea. But agree, as she thinks she won't end up locked in a cell with a man she is happy to sacrifice other women.

[MatthewJTaylor]

One can always call the theatres to complain to them about it.
Each time you phone them, a member of staff there is unable to book tickets for those who plan on attending.
(Alas this will effect also the other productions on show)

Bath phone numbers: 01225 448844, 01225 823409 & 01225 448815
Bristol phone numbers: 0117 902 0344 & 0117 902 0345
Norwich phone number: 01603 531800

[myteethwerefine]

Dinosauria well for god's sake order her another drink!!! Kool Aid makes everything feel better......

[FunnyTalks]

@backtobusy

I wouldn't place any confidence in the Gaurdian's ability to judge safeguarding issues.
They were very supportive of the rubber fetishist who filmed himself wanking in the toilets while at work and uploaded it onto the internet. Regardless of the fact that the individual worked for the NSPCC at the time.

And the Guardian ran a sob story about a transwoman prisoner denied hair straighteners in jail. Completely omitting that they were a sex offender whose victim was a teenage girl.

The Guardian show us time and again that the feelings white* males have in their dicks are more important than the actual safety of women and girls.

*They're quite good at reporting on violent misogyny in non western countries.

[Terfydactyl]

What is this family circle booklet?
I've never heard of it and Google comes up with biscuits?

[DomesticatedZombie]

@Terfydactyl

What is this family circle booklet?
I've never heard of it and Google comes up with biscuits?

Aye, family circle to me means a tin of vintage biscuits. Or a vintage biscuit tin.

[apricotlane]

I'd like to make what I think is an important point here to the hippy libs who are in any way apologists for these wannabee avant-garde amateurs with their pious sexual evangelism while they simultaneously get their 'actor'/exhibitionist rocks off (don't these people just always ruin sex - look at the state of them! Bleugh).

You people talk about nudity not being shameful. Please note that while nudity is not shameful; nudity, as perceived by most children up until quite late is not sexual nor related to sex. Even childhood self-exploration of genitals is unrelated to 'sex'. Relating nudity and bodies to sex is an adult projection onto these children and an invasion of their childhood and innocence. Children do not need their sexual awakening foisted on them by some gender-bending, internet-addled weirdos with their pretence of offsetting porn etc. Nor do they relate themselves to adults - they fancy their peers who are entirely different to adults and the adult body. Adult sexuality is mostly repulsive to them until a turning point and even when they start sexual interest they are not generally interested in mature adults (unless they have been interfered with) but in each other. Not only do the zealots in this show want to foist sexual awareness onto the unasking child, they clearly want to foist the genderwang version of it. The loveless, fetishistic and uglified unicorn version of it.

There doesn't seem to me to be much more dangerous than a sexually fixated leftist who thinks he has a spiritual mandate to 'free' and 'educate' your children. This is the ministry of perverts.

[Clymene]

@Terfydactyl

What is this family circle booklet?
I've never heard of it and Google comes up with biscuits?

I remember Family Circle. The reason you don't is because it was a n American magazine.

[Datun]

Would an adult exposing their penis to an audience of children not be considered indecent exposure?

[Throughabushbackwards]

Relating nudity and bodies to sex is an adult projection onto these children and an invasion of their childhood and innocence. Children do not need their sexual awakening foisted on them by some gender-bending, internet-addled weirdos with their pretence of offsetting porn.

This.