The Family Sex Show cancelled amid threats
The Family Sex Show cancelled amid threats
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MadMullah

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5,299 posts

216 months

Wednesday 20th April 2022
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-6114...

A sex education theatre show aimed at children has been cancelled after the venue said it had received "unprecedented threats and abuse".

The Family Sex Show, featuring topics such as consent, pleasure and queerness, was due to be performed at Bristol's Tobacco Factory in May.

The creators of the show, who said they had also received threats, have now cancelled its whole tour.

More than 38,000 people signed a petition calling for it to be axed.

The petition claimed the show was "profoundly irresponsible" and "wholly inappropriate".

The show would have featured full-frontal nudity and those organising it would "present a severe safeguarding risk", protesters added.

p4cks

7,336 posts

222 months

Wednesday 20th April 2022
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Is Bristol too 'woke'?

MadMullah

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5,299 posts

216 months

Wednesday 20th April 2022
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Absolutely bizzarre that there would be parents out there who think its ok for random strangers to "perform" infront of their kids and appear naked.

why would a 5 year old need to know about sex and masturbation?

sometimes i think stuff like this is written by fantasy paedo's.

g3org3y

22,102 posts

214 months

Wednesday 20th April 2022
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BBC said:
The show also explored topics such as non-sexual nudity and gender and was aimed at children as young as five.


#Progressive

Jeanboi

2,856 posts

242 months

Wednesday 20th April 2022
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Echoes of the rainbow dildo monkey thingy?

ZedLeg

12,278 posts

131 months

Wednesday 20th April 2022
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Hard to comment on the show being cancelled without knowing more about the content.

However this current trend for reactionaries throwing around groomer and paedo claims is going to end badly.

SpeckledJim

32,549 posts

276 months

Wednesday 20th April 2022
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Well if it won’t work in Bristol there’s only Brighton left to try.

Castrol for a knave

7,031 posts

114 months

Wednesday 20th April 2022
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Will they pass a pint glass around and expect you to put a quid in?

Asking for a friend.

JagLover

45,925 posts

258 months

Thursday 21st April 2022
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Castrol for a knave said:
Will they pass a pint glass around and expect you to put a quid in?

Asking for a friend.
Given the target audience the pint glass would likely only be filled with smarties.

RedWhiteMonkey

8,618 posts

205 months

Thursday 21st April 2022
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Reminds me of Legz Akimbo from The League of Gentlemen.

21TonyK

12,942 posts

232 months

Thursday 21st April 2022
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It's not as if kids would be going without parental conscent and unacompannied.

A Winner Is You

25,798 posts

250 months

Thursday 21st April 2022
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ZedLeg said:
Hard to comment on the show being cancelled without knowing more about the content.

However this current trend for reactionaries throwing around groomer and paedo claims is going to end badly.
Yes, I can't imagine where they'd get that idea from.........


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tannhauser

1,773 posts

238 months

Thursday 21st April 2022
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Good. What a freak show.

ZedLeg

12,278 posts

131 months

Thursday 21st April 2022
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A Winner Is You said:
ZedLeg said:
Hard to comment on the show being cancelled without knowing more about the content.

However this current trend for reactionaries throwing around groomer and paedo claims is going to end badly.
Yes, I can't imagine where they'd get that idea from.........


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I meant more in general, it's becoming the go to retort in this week's round of culture war arguments.

southendpier

6,021 posts

252 months

Thursday 21st April 2022
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SpeckledJim said:
Well if it won’t work in Bristol there’s only Brighton left to try.
hehe

poo at Paul's

14,546 posts

198 months

Thursday 21st April 2022
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i hope as society things like the cost of living squeeze will mean we all wake up and start challenging horsest like this, we've been tolerating it and funding it for long enough now. It is about time chodes like this lot were made to go out and get proper fking jobs instead of pedeling this utter bks.

bitchstewie

64,170 posts

233 months

Thursday 21st April 2022
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Thing is when you say "challenging" if people just don't take their kids presumably they don't have much of a show and they go out of business so it looks after itself?

Personally the whole thing sounds a bit weird and isn't my cup of tea but the way I'm reading it it isn't schools or other institutions taking kids so you're into parental choices and responsibility aren't you?

And even then people sending them threats and abuse just because they don't agree with it is completely wrong.

MitchT

17,089 posts

232 months

Thursday 21st April 2022
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A Winner Is You said:
ZedLeg said:
Hard to comment on the show being cancelled without knowing more about the content.

However this current trend for reactionaries throwing around groomer and paedo claims is going to end badly.
Yes, I can't imagine where they'd get that idea from.........


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Thought I was reading the script from a sex-themed episode of South Park for a moment then!

mat205125

17,790 posts

236 months

Thursday 21st April 2022
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p4cks said:
Is Bristol too 'woke'?
They could have pushed the presenter into the docks

roger.mellie

4,640 posts

75 months

Thursday 21st April 2022
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Jeanboi said:
Echoes of the rainbow dildo monkey thingy?
I’m really glad I’ve no idea what this sentence means and I’ve no intention of finding out smile.

We did sex Ed in school at 10 years old and that was in the 80’s. A few kids had to be taken out because their parents didn’t want it but most of the class were there. Parental choice is a good thing. The only harm I remember it doing was it broadened our capacity for dodgy jokes.