Eighteen theatregoers at Stuttgart’s state opera required medical treatment for severe nausea over the weekend after watching a performance that included live piercing, unsimulated sexual intercourse and copious amounts of fake and real blood.

    • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      16 days ago

      It looks like there were warnings in advance too

      Visitors to the adults-only show were alerted in advance to a long list of warnings for potential triggers including incense, loud noises, explicit sexual acts and sexual violence.

      FWIW, I’m a sideshow performer and have been in shows that were exactly like this (though I don’t do full nudity or piercing). There’s always a content warning at the top of the show. The blue laws where I live are pretty lenient, but even here live sex is a hard no though.

      Also, anyone wanna go to this?

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      16 days ago

      If you’ve never seen copious amounts of blood before, you might not know you’re a goddamn pussy. I didn’t know blood would make me queasy until I was trying to clean glass and blood from the floor before my dogs ran in to see the commotion as the skin on the backs of 2 fingers was flapping and undoing all my blood cleanup. It damaged something in my nail base, too, because I have a scar that ends at a permanent ridge in my nail extrusion.

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      16 days ago

      Why would you shove a toothpick under your toenail and kick the wall as hard as you can if you’re a goddamn pussy