The Family Sex Show to continue, despite widespread outrage

[MatthewJTaylor]

The twitter account for the theatre group behind the Family Sex Show (@ThisEgg_) has revealed that there are performances planned of the Family Sex Show despite the cancellation of the national tour and they are looking for more venues to take them on.
It seems that the Bath performance(s) is/are running.

It's so disturbing, it's Linda they're deliberately doing it to be outrageous and vulgar to the """right wing christians""". Messed up, I could not have processed this at 5.

Their Zine section may well be their undoing. All their claims about being family orientated, safeguarding centred are unraveling. Because they believe in this shit. And the more they push it, the more they reveal.

I prefer to think of them as absolutely clueless rather than sinister. I really, really hope so.

@IcakethereforeIam

Has anybody tried Googling 'animals that masturbate'? I'm scared to try. Don't want that in my search history.

Horse dildos are probably on the tamer side of what it brings up.

Other stuff would need trigger warnings.

It's this bit:

Remember: not all women have vulvas, and not all vulvas belong to women.

In bold which is so bloody obnoxious. The only bold text on the page. Obviously we don't need to remember the same thing about penises as a pp said.

I can't believe a bloody woman set this up. Idiotic.

I am in my forties and I’m not googling animals that masturbate. Because I know it will bring up bestiality.

5 year olds!!!!

I’m so shocked and disgusted, I’m struggling to express it legally.

And there are people on Twitter giving ThisEgg all the sympathy. Someone just said they were “horrified and terrified”.

#MeToo

Is it worth sending this to CEOP the child safety online organisation?

Are schools still teaching internet safety or is that outdated now? DDs school has some really good parent sessions as well as ongoing reinforcement of the message for the children, and I think the police who spoke at the parent sessions also spoke to the children.

Their PR company is Mobius Industries....no...me neither. I can only assume they just give their clients shovels.

@DebtheSander

Their Zine section may well be their undoing. All their claims about being family orientated, safeguarding centred are unraveling. Because they believe in this shit. And the more they push it, the more they reveal.

I prefer to think of them as absolutely clueless rather than sinister. I really, really hope so.

The only possible conclusions is that either a) they are so clueless that they have never been allowed to interact with an actual child, or b) one or more of the people driving this have an active sexual interest in children.

Thinking about it, there's a strong possibility that people in category a) are acting as the useful idiots for people in category b).

This whole page sounds {I've just remembered it's a banned word, you can probably imagine the one I mean}

thefamilysexshow.com/bodies-touch

e.g. starting with "what sort of things do you touch that make you feel nice and warm" then further down the page "make your own playdoh genitals"

Yes, seriously.

I think it’s that they actively think they are protecting children by teaching them about bodies, sex, consent etc.

Which would be true if it was age-appropriate.

The notion they reject (probably for ideological rather than sexual reasons) is that it is abusive to expose children to sexual content and knowledge of/sight of sexual acts, rather than solely non-consensual acts.

That doesn’t make them any less dangerous.

I mean, complaining would be illegal if Stonewall Law were the actual law. But it’s not. Slight suspicion that it was “literal violence” not any other flavour, too, because I’m sure the feeling of their oppressive critics’ collars would’ve been noted.

The absolute state of this. It makes the man who tried to abduct my friend when we were on the way home from school one day look as if his intentions were quite benign, really. Certainly he gave up more easily when he attracted the attention of (fearsome) mum[mie]s & mammies: this lot have all the benefits of an [expensive] education - & not a scrap of cop on between them 🙄

And how nice, a video to explain what the plus sign means in LGBTQ+
F-ing cartoon vegetables.
thefamilysexshow.com/sexuality

Haven't they at least thought of the optics of any of this? Can anyone be that much of a "useful idiot"?

I would be far more concerned that there is an audience willing to purchase tickets for this (before cancellation) and bring their 5+ kids to it.

They are the problem IMV. Normal people (sorry) would just boycott it completely.

I wish you could see the expression on my face.

This is VILE.

I am sure most of them are useful, unparalleled idiots. But I find it hard to believe that whoever designed that “zine” didn’t know exactly what they were doing. The way the material smoothly escalates from innocent to completely inappropriate. The way it seems to be designed for an adult to work through it with a child, but you have to ask yourself what kind of adult ever would?

Absurdle

But some people do that because they think it’s fine for children to Google masturbating monkeys or whatever. They really believe this sort of exposure keeps children safer because “knowledge” and “fun”.

Loons, obviously.

@tabbycatstripy

I think it’s that they actively think they are protecting children by teaching them about bodies, sex, consent etc.

Which would be true if it was age-appropriate.

The notion they reject (probably for ideological rather than sexual reasons) is that it is abusive to expose children to sexual content and knowledge of/sight of sexual acts, rather than solely non-consensual acts.

That doesn’t make them any less dangerous.

This. They're convinced they're on the side of the angels and because they're both clueless about safeguarding as well as unlikely to be parents, the concept of age appropriateness is lost on them. Thus rendering them as dangerous idiots (and hopefully not concealing people who have an over investment in talking to 5 years olds about age inappropriate sexual matters). Equating talking to random 5 year olds as a freedom of speech issue demonstrates their cluelessness (or how dangerous they are to young children) Take your pick.

The inability of other allegedly mature organisations to see this and respond appropriately by prioritising safeguarding 5 years olds is a massive concern.

Flappy if your face is already like that - have you watched the video "gender explained"? How is this supposed to be helpful to children? I would have found it totally confusing.
thefamilysexshow.com/what-are-my-pronouns

Okay, they have to be trolling us now. Nobody can be that naive, surely even predators would think it's a bit much.

And as for "Recognising that pleasure is a measure of freedom.", the author's book about pleasure talks about how she might have thought about being a nun when she was younger "and I don't mean a naughty nun with no panties under my habit"

@PegsandBags

I would be far more concerned that there is an audience willing to purchase tickets for this (before cancellation) and bring their 5+ kids to it.

They are the problem IMV. Normal people (sorry) would just boycott it completely.

A show like this could be quite - useful - for certain parents.

Look at the “orientation” page. It seems harmless compared to a lot of them. There’s the cartoon vegetables explaining Demisexuality, then a possibly very sweet video that has adults kissing behind a screen, then children playing with adults behind the same screen, with lots of taglines about love - could definitely be misused by someone of ill intent to groom a child, but maybe it’s not intended that way?

Then at the end, this:

Can you do some research and find some examples of cultures (other than your own) and the words they use for different sexualities? E.G. In Tamil (a very old language from Sri Lanka and India that is still spoken around the world today), the word for ‘lesbian’ is ‘ahanal.’

Anyone want to guess what happens when you Google “ahanal?”

I don’t believe for a second it’s not intentional.

And definitely don't watch the Pleasure Activism video at the bottom of the page. Really doesn't seem appropriate for kids.
thefamilysexshow.com/centering-joy

@PlantingTrees

From their website If some of your pleasures are sexual, are there any sexual practices you might like to try? A show for ages 5 and up.

Honestly I don't know that this is really even appropriate for pre-teens and teens who might be quite interested in such things. That doesn't mean that having adults ask this at a theatrical production is appropriate.

‘Honestly I don't know that this is really even appropriate for pre-teens and teens who might be quite interested in such things. That doesn't mean that having adults ask this at a theatrical production is appropriate.’

It’s not. If a teacher asked your 14 year old whether blow jobs sounded pleasurable, they would (rightly) be fired and I hope it would be referred to police.

Adults don’t discuss sex acts with children except for informational purposes - safety, risk, biological understanding.