In a frank and open manner
The story of the groomers and their sex show for “children as young as 5” is being framed in the non-conservative press as a matter of threats and abuse against the organizers as opposed to a matter of grooming.
The Guardian for instance:
Sex education theatre show for children cancelled after ‘violent threats’
The Family Sex Show organisers receive abuse over UK production aimed at children as young as five
A theatre show that promised to reimagine sex education by discussing the issue in a frank and open manner with audience members as young as five years old has been cancelled after “violent threats” were made against its organisers.
But small children don’t need “sex education” apart from a few basics. That kind of “sex education” is of interest to no one except groomers, who want to train children to be compliant with their molesters.
The company added it would have offered “safe and positive learning to children, young people and guardians about rights, bodies, sex and relationships, advised by safeguarding and educational specialists”.
Its statement said: “We believe that what has happened is reflective of structural and societal attitudes towards relationships and sex education as well as art, culture and who is allowed to create and what we are allowed to engage with in the UK.”
Of course it is. It’s reflective of “structural and societal attitudes” that small children shouldn’t be tricked and manipulated into thinking it’s fine for adults to, say, guide a small hand to the adult’s genitalia.
The Independent takes the same line. (The BBC, the Guardian, and the Indy all seem to be reporting This Egg’s Twitter version of the story.)
The Family Sex Show, an educational theatre production aimed at children, has been axed after the venue said its staff had been subjected to “unprecedented threats and abuse”.
The show, which covers themes such as gender, consent, pleasure, queerness and masturbation, was due to open at Bristol’s Tobacco Factory in May.
What does “queerness” have to do with sex education? What is “queerness”? How is it different from same-sex attraction? Above all why would anyone want a random theater group teaching sex ed on stage?
These are probably all members of the same cohort that believe any disagreement is threatening, and any faiure to capitulate to their demands is violence.
Their own publicity has worked against them in this case. That’s what happens when you spend your whole life refusing to listen to the world outside your cult-bubble; as everyone you know becomes increasingly unmoored from reality, what is considered by you to be acceptable behaviour escalates into frankly disturbing territory.
I very much doubt that people were sending violent threats to the venue. They were probably just asking “What the HELL were you thinking, putting on a show by and for pædos‽”
Even if there wasn’t a whiff of pedo-ism in the project, it would still come down to adults imposing their notions about sex onto children too young to have any personal stake in the matter. Alice Miller’s ‘For Your Own Good’ spent time on the ghastly effects of ‘progressive’ attempts at sex-education rooted in notions about sex (from Freud) that were hardened into orthodoxy before the existence of hormones was grasped.