My Name is Tom 2024.

 

How My Name is Tom evolved...

I had been a trustee of Face Front Theatre for some time, and one of our key productions was SEX FM, which explored a range of issues around teenage relationships and STI's and had been very well received by school audiences for some years. 

Then in 2011, I read an article in the teaching newspaper The Times Educational Supplement by Vicki Shiels 

"Indecent exposure"

Features | TES Newspaper on 22 May, 2009. 

“Children are major consumers of pornography, and with mobile phones they have the opportunity to create content, too - often using their peers as ‘performers’. Not only did one girl involved film herself carryout a sexual act, she also added the title and music later, which was subsequently shared with students from another school.”

And we all know what has happened some 12 years since, with thousands of young people and adults in any community engaged in or being affected by such activities as…

Paris and Darnell - a typical teenage love story? 

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