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Jeremy Wickins's avatar

Anyone taking a child to see this is prima facie a risk and should be investigated as such.

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Kay Warbrick's avatar

What an absolutely brilliant and full analysis - thank you.

What an absolutely insidious phrase:

"using pleasure to explore consent”.

I think this article should be sent to the CEO and head of safeguarding at the NSPCC

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Corisande's avatar

Thank you!

Someone on MumsNet shared a reply they got from the head of NSPCC - basically they know nothing about it & can’t make any judgements without knowing the content of the show.

Which of course we can’t find out until the show premieres.

Here:

https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4530725-A-Detailed-Look-At-The-Family-Sex-Show

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TJ37's avatar

Do MumsNetters or the NSPCC know, regarding ThisEgg and their agenda, that 'egg' in trans slang means

- 'a person who hasn't realized they're trans yet. Usually they show telltale behavior of a trans person despite not knowing...' - Urban Dictionary

- '"Egg" or "Egg Mode" is an Internet and LGBTQ+ slang used to describe transgender individuals who do not realize they are a transgender person yet, or are in denial about being a transgender individual...' - knowyourmeme.com/memes/egg-transgender

A grooming word if ever there was one. Labelling/targetting children for grooming them into the gender cult.

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OhIamtooauldforthis's avatar

Did not know that. Makes it even more creepy now...

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OhIamtooauldforthis's avatar

NSPCC are dodgy as hell. I lost faith in them after the rubbermaninstafftoilets.

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Kay Warbrick's avatar

Local Authority safeguarding team already have been informed in our area

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Corisande's avatar

Part of the problem with “using pleasure to explore consent” is that this is fine with adults - in fact it’s probably key.

But children CANNOT consent to sexual contact.

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OhIamtooauldforthis's avatar

That just makes the hairs on my neck stand up! It's trying to push the concept of consent and the boundaries. It's paedophilla in plain sight.

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Kay Warbrick's avatar

Yes, I was thinking of the children and family context

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Patrick's avatar

Abso-bloody-exactly!

(To paraphrase Alan Partridge)

The theatre needs to read this and reconsider.

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Nick L's avatar

That is a brilliant dissection Corisande. It is disturbing and shocking.

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Corisande's avatar

Thank you!

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Sian Griffiths's avatar

Is there any point in contacting the theatres, local school, Councils or MP's? I'm tempted to forward the article to local papers where it's scheduled to go ahead...and of course there's always Mumsnet!

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Graham Linehan's avatar

Baroness Nicholson is already asking questions!

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Diana Badger's avatar

I've been in contact with the local venue and got an anodyne answer with a link to their OWN disclaimer. Have now replied with this article copied into the email.

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Una-Jane Winfield's avatar

Now 36,700 signatures!

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Úrsula Iguarán's avatar

The Holy Grail is 100,000+

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Úrsula Iguarán's avatar

They got to 39,000

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Corisande's avatar

I’ve written to the council chair for family services local to one of these performances. I’m going to write to the venue manager and ask what their safeguarding measures are - particularly regarding the workshops.

Other women I know have written to the local MP.

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Corisande's avatar

Thank you for publishing this!

I do think Chris Morris should do a film about it... then again, the last few years increasingly resemble a Brass Eye sketch that has gone feral.

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Ellen Highwater's avatar

This is an excellent and thorough analysis - thank you!

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Sianrose's avatar

Groomers...

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Patrick's avatar

I remember laughing so much at the Legz Akimbo sketches in The League of Gentlemen.

It might not be as funny anymore, and that's no reflection on The LoG.

It's that someone has actually made something this horrific in the real world.

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Jemima Strawberry Horse's avatar

Typing the "The Family Sex show" into a search engine now has me worried the police might want to ask me a few questions.

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Sian Griffiths's avatar

I see that Sarah Crew (Chief Constable of Somerset and Avon Police) has recently posted:

"A fantastic day of learning at the ‘Protecting Vulnerable Persons Conference’. An incredible range of guest speakers who discussed research, practical advice and provided specialist knowledge! Thank you"

I don't know who/what is responsible for dealing with dodgy theatre productions, but I may enquire ....

sarah.crew@avonandsomerset.pnn.police.uk

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Lizzie Cornish's avatar

I rang the Bristol theatre up, a short while back, after seeing this on Twitter. The young man told he could see nothing wrong with it at all...not even when I explained that 5 year olds would be able to see naked 'strangers' on stage (and yes, WHAT kind of parents would take their kids to such a show!). He told me very confidently that the show had been produced by 'experts' and that it wouldn't be a danger. I asked him if these 'experts' were paedophiles, at which point, he put the phone down. I despair for the future, I truly do. So many sex/porn saturated minds out there now...and so many who appear to think that children MUST know 'everything about everything', their parents often having no boundaries at all, no sense of right and wrong. And yet, just a very few years back, none of this would have been happening, not even allowed....It is ALL to do with Gruesome Stonewall and all the other equally gruesome organizations/charities, set up to indoctrinate children into the darkest, most sinister side of life?

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Úrsula Iguarán's avatar

Gruesome is a good word for it

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Radhwa Evans-Clare's avatar

An excellent and detailed piece, but it's hard to conceive that something as fucked up as this could ever get beyond the stage of being an idea in someone's head, before they realise it's not fit to be shared with anyone else. But no, it became a project and a production, one the whole family can enjoy and learn from. I hope people have the sense to reject this shite and it ends in the failure it deserves.

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OhIamtooauldforthis's avatar

How in God's name did this get funding from the Arts Council?

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Radhwa Evans-Clare's avatar

It's not easy to get funding from them, even the most worthwhile projects struggle or fail. Why would they give money to a project of low artistic integrity and no demonstrably good purpose? Presumably, it's the same reason that local authorities paint trans flag crossings on some of their roads, or have police officers smilingly waving pink and blue flags. Or why the trains on some rail networks bear the trans coulors on the side of their carriages, including TFL, naturally. It's the same reason all kinds of institutions and organisations fall over themselves trying to prove their inclusive credentials, bullying people into stating their 'preferred pronouns', imposing gender neutral lavatories, etc. And in every instance, how willing they are to see women sidelined, seriously disadvantaged or even even endangered in the service of gender identity ideology, or misogyny, effectively. All things which must and eventually will come to an end.

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Fraoch's avatar

Aa hertily second that..

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Στέφανος of Highgate's avatar

Excellent work Corisande. I am creeped (crept?) out and horrified in equal measure. I am reminded of the Private Eye message board contributor: “Anyone comes near my five year old daughter I’ll do time”.

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Corisande's avatar

Thank you!

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Mildred's avatar

Who are the people responsible for this show, not just the Arts Council, theatres, et al.? I mean the actors, director, producer? They need to be exposed for this abusive travesty too, I would think.

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Lawrence S's avatar

Co-Producers: 

Laurence Cook & Josie Dale-Jones

Supporting Producers:

Camille Koosyial & Gayathiri Kamalakanthan

Songs by:

Stephanie Levi-John & John Biddle

Composer:

John Biddle

Writers & Performers:

Josie Dale-Jones, Joe Boylan, Greta Mitchell, Mark Fitzgerald, Stephanie Levi-John, John Biddle, Katie Greenall, Amelia Cavallo, Kimberley Harvey, Keziah Joseph, Aaron Gordon, Laurence Cook, Gayathiri Kamalakanthan and Camille Koosyial

https://pod.co/the-family-sex-show-starts-here

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Corisande's avatar

One of these - Gayathiri Kamalakanthan - also works for Stonewall.

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Corisande's avatar

Also the Arts Council and the managements of the various theatres that has booked them.

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Elizabeth's avatar

This is Arts Council funded? Good grief. Talk about levelling down

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Just some bloke.'s avatar

"...When it’s agenda" could see you confined to the State Punitentiary.

Very well done. Great article.

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Niobe's avatar

Let’s hope that any child present behaves as some children do at ‘adult events’ : fidgets , runs around the aisles, rolls on the floor screaming, asks loudly every five minutes ’ when are we going home?’ ‘Can i get down now?’ ‘ why is that man dressed like a girl? ‘ etc etc ( see any half term in Tesco for details’……

Alternatively, I hope the stage collapses on them and shuts them down for good.

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