How My Name is Tom evolved...

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I was a trustee of Face Front Theatre and SEX FM was one of our production for secondary and special schools, which toured for nineteen years. It explored a range of issues around teenage relation-ships 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? But when Paris and Darnell are exposed, they aren't the only ones.

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