Biggus Titus of Oxford University

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Sadly, not a Monty Python sketch.

Matt Rattley, a large bearded bloke who wears giant fake breasts, appears to be happily working at Oxford Uni.

I was really hoping this wasn't true but there is even a youtube video with him talking while wearing the giant breasts and red lipstick, applied to a degree any circus clown would be accused of overdoing it. The video includes a slide stating he works as a lecturer and tutor in the Biochemistry Dept at Oxford. He's also on LinkedIn.

I mean, how obvious can it be that this is a sexual fetish which he is involving unconsenting students and staff in???

Dr P on X has been (correctly) very robust on this case:

""This is Matt Rattley saying, "I can do whatever I please and nobody can stop me".

This is highly antisocial, abnormal, boundary-violating, paraphilic behaviour.

And we should not be afraid to say so."

I have been out of academia for 10 years now. Increasingly I am convinced that I got out just in time.

Well there are going to be students whose sexual interests run to BDSM and absolutely need to learn the safety and consent part of those activities from people who know what they're talking about rather than experiment alone and work it out with or without ethics. But any half way decent BDSM club has monitors watching, rules, and the good ones in particular are very strict about members not involving non consenting people in personal sexual experiences.

This lecturer could do with joining those classes and being taught about such things. And keeping his costumes for those sessions and such clubs.

This is one of the mad things about it. OF believes that because Matt wears giant rubber breasts, he must be trans. Isn't that a teeny-weeny bit insulting to trans women? It suggests that, far from experiencing a deep-seated, inborn sense of womanhood, they're just blokes who want to go round wearing comedy breasts, like the average member of a university rugby team.

I dont know if in his mind, and in the minds of his employers, he's using sex discrimination or the PC of GR, but neither do TRA, so they have to pretend it's normal behaviour.

Whichever it is, the EqA is allowing men to caricature women in the work place. Once that has been established, its difficult to determine standards. Are they going to write policies allowing men to wear fake breasts, but only under a C cup?

I couldn’t believe it myself when a friend of DCs told her about it but I can confirm it’s definitely a student society that the university would have had to permit.

Edited to add @OpheliaWitchoftheWoods there may be scope for what you’re suggesting but I strongly dispute a university society as the place to do it. There are 17 and 18 year olds arriving with very little life experience and could well be talked into or accepting bein tied up as conventional because of being legitimised as a university society.

I had one female first year tutee from another country talked into a boxing match for ‘charity’ but was seriously traumatised when she was actually punched in the head. It wasn’t something that she really wanted to do but felt talked into by her friends.

Students are always going to be experimenting with new activities. I strongly doubt anyone would go to such events in the first place unless they liked the idea and it sounds safer to try it in a public group space where sex can't happen than alone with someone in a bedroom.

That just makes me think that it would be a way of the more "experienced" group members to find naive "fresh meat". Isn't this just like the book Grandad's Pride? Normalising fetish in the public domain to lower women's boundaries? It seems to me we have just managed to get rid of Page 3 and nude calendars, when even worse has now popped up and we are supposed to celebrate this? It's a no from me

It all feels like we are meant to accept deviancy as ‘progress’.

The world will change that is to be expected but this queer ideology/trans/non binary/pride being taken over seems the opposite of progress. It feels like forced pressure on the pushing of boundaries of society and it feels dirty to me. All dressed up as ‘be kind’.

It’s a power trip.

@Ereshkigalangcleg absolutely. Thanks for articulating my frustration. Anyhow we now have Harriet Harman to help the cause. The Labour grande dame who believes men can be women and is now the special envoy for Women and Girls.

Women deserve better. This whole trans thing is now a parody but feels dystopian. I am tired of other women sticking up for the men who say they are women and I am horrified at the mutilation of girls/women who think they are men.

oxfordfeminist · 08/05/2026 15:26
I'm really tempted to engage with some of the questions, but it's such a hostile and one-sided space here, it feels like a self-destructive exercise from my point of view (in that I'm just setting myself up to be attacked).

This is the issue OF. No-one reading that believes it.

And to cut to the chase it's largely because there IS no justification for men in women's spaces or men wearing porn inspired fake breasts to teach young women.

The reason you don't engage, even with the most innocuous questions like that from @Keeptoiletssafe, is because any premise you put forward will be, let's face it, entirely crap.

And it's a nonsense argument to claim you're being attacked so you won't engage because you'll get attacked.

And then to keep on posting all round the houses anyway!

There's not a feminist on the planet who doesn't get it. That's why you're not believed. Your credibility is shot.

As every human being, except those who have had a double mastectomy, has at least one breast, this assertion about normality is complete rubbish.

If you stick to it though, there is a tiny fraction of the population who could be male, everyone else must be female because they have breasts and you have accidentally erased all women only spaces. Congratulations!

All fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Myabe I'm just getting old and cyncial but I'm no longer convinced that "safety" and "consent" are things a BDSM club can "teach" to much effect. For one thing, the "risk" to themselves or others is often part of the thrill and if everything is "safe" the thrill can fade. People still push the boundary because it's exciting until it isn't any more and then it might be too late. And for another, even with monitors watching (do they really do that? funny old world!) that club will be a magnet for predators and potential victims (who for whatever reasons can't or don't want to assert a boundary) who meet up and take risks and push boundaries with each other out of view.

Luckily it's not through direct personal experience but I know people who've caused and sustained harm who knew all about safety and consent - in theory anyway.

And when things went wrong it wasn't Big Jim from the rugby club who got hurt.

It would be informative to know what OF's limits for acceptable work-wear are. Would a Grayson Perry style frilly baby-doll and phallus combo step over the mark?

Yes, its very true. Imformation freely available on Open Days.

When the UKs reputation for University education sinks in a decade's time, there will be cries from academia that the issue is due to lack of funding and visa restrictions when the reality is the instuitions have done this to themselves.

Through significantly lowering grades to widen parcipation, enabling fetishism societies and fetish lecturers, trans identities being pushed and funding for bindings, anti semistism alllowed on campus, no debate on womens rights, etc.

I'm sad that yet another sector where the UK once led is now tarnished.

As an aside, when I heard Starmer brought in Brown and Harman I despaired. The UK does not need another PM at this time and Labour are getting some things right but my god that man has no political instincts. Bringing back new old Labour is not going to be anything but a disaster. What next, Blair as a Spad?!

Note that Oxford University only recently (2023) introduced a ban on student-teacher sexual relationships

University of Oxford bans intimate staff-student relationships - BBC News

My memory is that, at the time, some members of staff pushed back claiming that having an affair with your tutor was part of the Oxford experience - sadly I can't find the reference.

From the article - In the past, relationships between a staff member and a student were allowed and had to be declared to a line manager.

They need to take the job of educating seriously and find themselves a better set of standards

Now I've seen that Grayson Perry pic, every time his name appears I see Struellpeter. (SP?)

With respect, positioning a Fetish Society as ‘experimenting with a new activity’ sounds extremely naive. Or sounds exactly like the man who proposed the society in the first place.

During welcome week, there are posters and society stands encouraging first year students (17 and 18 years old) to come and try it out. International students from protected societies. Vulnerable students with special educational needs. Do you really not know any young people who get talked into / try new activities that they really don’t want to do but feel pressured into for one reason or another and then feel terrible about themselves afterwards?

Sometimes with permanent impacts. I’ve known of students dying from alcohol poisoning playing drinking games on campus. We already have a surge in young men thinking rape is not really rape even where young women can’t consent and anal tears are the single biggest cause of young female students seeking care from college health centres in the US. Those might have been experimenting with new activities to their detriment.

Our young students might not have the language for it, but once in the room, instinctively they’ll know the person/people running it are getting a sexual thrill from having these young girls in positions of submission. The heady combined thrill of dominance and sex played out in full view getting to tie up v young women. Encouraging both young men and young women to think this is normal and messing with their head’s should not be university sanctioned.

A huge abrogation of duty of care in my opinion.

It’s a “hell, no” from me too.

May I please point out that he’s Bigus Tittus?

Titus was a Roman Emperor, for a brief while, and pretty good, all things considered.

My memory is that, at the time, some members of staff pushed back claiming that having an affair with your tutor was part of the Oxford experience - sadly I can't find the reference.

Hansard has been a handy reference for me for all things toilet. In 2003, sexual activity in a toilet that the public, or a section of the public, have access to, was made an offence. It was passionately argued that this was discrimatory against men. Who would have thought legal sex in toilets was something to stand up for? No pun intended!

Weren't there similar passionate arguments that lead to poppers (Amyl Nitrate etc.) being excluded from the 'legal highs' ban?

Poppers 'not part of legal highs ban' - BBC News

Tory MP Crispin Blunt 'outs himself' as popper user - BBC News

From the first article

The council's guidance is contained in a letter which also sets out the harms linked to the use of poppers.
It says there were 11 deaths related to poppers in England and Wales from 1993 to 2013.

And AI estimates:
~130,000–150,000 alcohol-related deaths in England and Wales, 1993–2013 (ONS definition)

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