Hard-core porno paid for by taxpayers via SNP quango

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'dyke identifying' is an offensive new one for me. It stands to reason that such an (ahem) artist would be au fait with gender ideology.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/10/snp-quango-gave-public-money-to-porn-masquerading-as-art/ sorry archive.ph seems to be having a moment.

It's not an insignificant sum of money. The ferrets are reversing. But how can they justify bunging someone so much money without knowing precisely what it would be spent on. And, if I understand correctly, they'd already paid for and seen a taster.

When this masterbate, sorry, masterpiece is...erm...finished. The audience will be told to remove their shoes. I'd hate to think what they're stepping in.

Another article gives a little insight into the frankly bizarre decisions by Creative Scotland on who gets grants. Remake of an iconic Scottish movie by a Scottish cast and crew to be filmed in Scotland...no...fuck off...oh well here's a grand. Porno by an English private school alumni...take my (well taxpayer's) money.

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/creative-scotland-funding-whisky-galore/

No funding either for a book festival, and associated children's book festival -

www.heraldscotland.com/news/24216735.creative-scotland-reject-aye-write-book-festival-funding-bid/

Well, the plot thickens

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sex-show-producers-rein-creative-scotland-ztxn7hdm5

The lying liars!

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/creative-scotland-in-porn-project-controversy/

Creative Scotland knew about the non-simulated sex all along.

The BBC reporting on the lying liars

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqq04v75p9o

Also has a timely reminder on one of Gasson's previous works in which teenagers and a child make sex toys from items taken from the audience.

I'll say this for Gasson she seems to have a problem with boundaries but she seems to have been honest about this. Compared to Creative Scotland who's lies only bought them time as foi would and have inevitably brought the truth to light.

Gasson also, within her own moral universe, seems to have given thought to the wellbeing of her cast. Or perhaps consulted a lawyer to make sure her arse was, metaphorically, covered.

This is not art but utter bullshit. Funded because the “art” is produced by a “queer” woman.

Also, actors are getting £270 a day - even assuming 12 actors for four days each is less than £12,500 - where’s the rest of the money gone? I bet it will be art/film students conscripted in for peanuts (and CV enhancement) working on production and the rest to the “talented, creative, free thinking” Leonie - I would love to see a breakdown of projected costs.

I have no problem with spending on the arts but there must be accountability and surely an installation unavailable to youth/children due to explicit content is not a good use of public money.

Oh, and also - who wants to enjoy porn in a communal space? Urgh. Vile.

Neurodivergent dramaturgy?? body-themed practictioners?? LMAO.

This is the express's article on it

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/snp-quango-handed-hardcore-sex-32858665?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqq04v75p9o

'Creative Scotland later said they had not realised the project involved real sex, but Rein's application acknowledged that development would involve "a sex scene with genital contact" involving three members of the cast.
It also stated that, where necessary, testing for sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) would be conducted before rehearsals.'

'Ms Gasson, who is from London and is based in Glasgow, was employed by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland until April and has worked with National Theatre of Scotland and the Tron Theatre.
Her previous work includes a project at the Traverse Theatre with Lyceum Youth Theatre involving "teenagers and a child" taking items from audience members' bags and making sex toys with them.'

Crikey, the BBC isn't holding back, for a change.

BBC Scotland does recently appear to be doing a slightly better job that we've otherwise come to expect from the wider BBC.

Dear God

Another article in the Times

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/creative-scotland-pressure-funding-hardcore-sex-show-gc8v7vvjr

https://archive.ph/kgyGA daddy will see you past the paywall

Fuck's sake how was this ever considered for funding! Putting aside the lying liars and the sex, the odds of this going badly for one of the performers seems massive. The casting call seems likely to attract people with vulnerabilities, candidates for the Greens, the sexually incontinent and exhibitionists with no idea of boundaries. This would have been a terrible mix. And it just sounds shit.

Have you ever watched The Elderly Rich Husband Helpline (I think it's on Tiktok but it may be FB only)?
He needs to recommend this article to his clients.

Heads need to roll at Creative Scotland. What liars they are. Jeez.

Yes. It sounds like a show that wants to test boundaries, alright. By deliberately subjecting vulnerable people to abuse for money and seeing what happens.

I suppose this is queer theory in action.

Shauny Boy nailing it again:

I've read most of the links, I've gotta say its putrid, the whole thing is putrid.
And leonie needs some counselling immediately to even think this is right and to find out what in the hell happened in her life/childhood to come up with the concept with zero regard to who would participate and those who would watch.

Nothing necessarily happened to Leonie at all. Some people just have innately poor boundaries and an innate inability to predict the effects on other people. And if everyone else is running round thinking it's just cool and arty to be transgressive then the results can be - well, this.

All fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Leonie is a daft young woman from what I've read in interview. Shallow and self absorbed.

The problem really is the context in which this is fostered, funded, and lauded. At some point someone in CS should have said 'wtf, no'.

This is brilliant. He completely nails it. And honestly he hasn't even exaggerated any aspect of this at all. As a PP said, this is putrid. Utterly putrid.

This entire saga is completely WTF!

I thought the stuff about sex toys and teenagers was bad enough until I read that quote about trying to hire vulnerable and disabled people and deliberately causing them trauma.

All that money that could be used for good. What an obscene waste in more ways than one.

And in the latest instalment we have Mr Munro claiming that genital contact and the need for lube does not equate to non simulated sex🤔🤪
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24355355.genital-contact-not-mean-real-sex-claims-creative-scotland-boss/

Priceless. Absolutely priceless. I wonder what Mr Munro would describe 'non real sex' that includes lube and genital contact?

Oh, my days. It's televised.

https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/constitution-europe-external-affairs-and-culture-committee-may-30-2024