Drag kid photographed with NAKED adult drag queen

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WTF? This is so inappropriate I have no words

www.dailywire.com/news/42081/10-year-old-boy-dressed-drag-pictured-naked-amanda-prestigiacomo

I'm not so sure that sexuality is as clear cut as that. The genre of school stories shows girls having crushes on each other and on teachers. I had both. They were not sexual. Then there are many women who only discover a love/sexual attraction for women in middle-age (as opposed to men who lead a double-life).

The other issue is about how we teach children about reproduction and sex. I do think that 'this is where babies come from' is a sensible place to start and that the stuff about sexual attraction the red haze of lust should come later (at puberty or thereabouts). Having said this, I'm not sure how 'Daddy and Daddy loved each other very much so they ...' can be explained as producing a baby, but I'll leave that to greater minds than mine :)

Daddy and Daddy loved each other very much so they ...' can be explained as producing a baby

I don’t think it would be much more difficult than explaining adoption to a young child.

kids shouldn’t be in any kind of late night/club/pub environment full stop. Most regular pubs which welcome families in the day have an evening cut off for allowing younger people in. That’s just your common or garden British pub where no one is doing anything more outré than having a pint and some crisps, because it’s not a suitable environment for children.
No child should be in a club type environment full stop. No child should be doing drag. No child should be subjected to, exposed to or involved with any kind of sexualised/adult environment or performance.

Why aren’t child services involved in any of these ‘drag kid’ cases?

So Lactatia's mum (presumably) has replied to it all - apparently anyone who objects to this is just a 'hater' because the human body is a beautiful thing. And in the comments (which are limited and few) compares it to a child being around a man in speedos at a swimming pool/beach. A nice rainbow there as well, just to hammer home the point that if you object to this you are a homophobic bigot who will be on the wrong side of history blah blah blah.

This is plain and simple grooming isn't it? Getting a child to think that something that really isn't acceptable and normal, is acceptable and normal.

I’d the human body is a beautiful thing why drape it in fishnets, BA air stewardess circa 1972 makeup and false eyelashes, wigs, etc etc

Also, I wonder if they have ever said why the name 'Lactatia'? I cannot see any other link with that name apart from a fetishization of breastfeeding? And am assuming Nemis didn't come up with it himself because, what child would think of that?

Also, the mum says they never would have released that photo themselves. In the screenshot on the article it very much looks like it's from Lactatia's Instagram (it says 'queenlactatia' at the top). It's gone now funnily enough.

The good doctor wrote a thread on is issue last night, supporting the idea. Today, it has been deleted....

I was thinking about the name “Lactatia” too. No child would come up with that. So perverted and wrong.

) If this brave new world is in the best interests of our kids why is such a paradigm shift not being led by child development experts?
This is a really good point. I wish RCPCH and the association for young people's health would issue their position on all this in the UK.
I also wonder how children this young are allowed into these clubs, are the laws looser in America?

The good doctor wrote a thread on is issue last night, supporting the idea. Today, it has been deleted

Might be something to do with the man who popped up to say just what went on in those clubs? And confirmed it was certainly no place for a child.

The mother is talking about an 'iconic merkin'. Is she referring to the pubic area of that man? Because he's wearing a pubic wig to make him look like he has female genitalia?

She sees nothing wrong in this? With her 10-year-old standing next to him looking arch?

The good doctor wrote a thread on is issue last night, supporting the idea. Today, it has been deleted

Did anyone get screenshots?

Re: the Dr, one would hope that the BMC are a little less open minded about children being sexualised and a little more worried about grooming.

It's child abuse, plain and simple.

Naming the child “Lactatia” is one of the creepiest bits of this wholly creepy ituation.

I took one screen shot. I never take screen shots but was so shocked by his tweets that I had to. I only took one of the first tweet - where he implies people, sorry I mean folks, who don't think this is a good thing don't have legitimate concerns.

He went on to say that drag is not all sexually fuelled, some are very tame. If you have 'concerns' you're homophobic. Let your child explore their identity, what ever it is. He ended with a rhetorical question (paraphrased) - 'Would you rather the parents force their dress wearing boy to fit in with gender stereotypes?' . Think he thought this was his gotcha to us.

Why is it either/or?

Either you make your son wear 'boys' clothes, play with trucks and support a football team, or you let them pose with naked adults and dance on stage in adult nightclubs for money?

Is there no middle ground according to Harrop?

For a doctor he comes across as incredibly thick.

Why can't the kid wear a dress during his everyday life rather than in late night clubs full of random adults? Other than sporting events that require a uniform, why can't he wear a dress pretty much anywhere? Why does a desire to play dress-up, or just to casually wear dresses, have to manifest as performance in spaces that are not designed for children?

It's such a stupid false dichotomy, as if boys haven't played dress-up at home forever without drunk adults throwing money at them.

When we were kids we were warned not to take anything from strangers. I guess having them throw money at you for performing is ok then?

Dammit, get me a pole for DS and lets start making some money!

And what exactly are they worried about photos being taken of?

Er, people having sex with each other? Or even being in a gay nightclub

Dr H calling Desmond a "young chap" implies to the casual reader that Desmond is 17 / 18 or so. Not still in elementary school

There is so much I want to say about this as well as all the map/no map stuff. But it's late (after midnight) and I'm in a shitty mood as well as having a summer cold (thanks DH). I'll just say it's FUBAR for now.

More Love - Less Hate?

They spelt More Access - Less Boundaries wrong.

The problem is not with the publishing of the photo, it’s that it was ever taken in the first place.