Taxpayer-funded porn project causes uproar in Scotland

Scottish government-backed quango Creative Scotland is back in the limelight over its porn project controversy. As Mr S wrote in March, the director of a hardcore pornographic performance, ‘Rein’, managed to secure £85,000 of taxpayers’ cash for her rather, um, explicit work. Now it can be revealed that, despite officials denying full knowledge of the show’s contents before this point, Creative Scotland was in fact aware of the show’s plans to include ‘non-simulated sex acts’ a year before signing off on the hefty sum. Just when you think events in Scotland can’t get any madder…

While quango bosses suggested that it was only this year that the full extent of the project’s explicit plans became clear, documents dating back to 2022 indicate otherwise, expressly noting that the show ‘involves sex choreography and scenes’. It transpires that Creative Scotland had sight of a ‘monitoring form’ submitted in 2023 by director Leonie Rae Gasson, which detailed proposals for explicit on-stage sex scenes and the hiring of an intimacy coordinator.