Row over sexual content on display at family-friendly event in library

SHOCK has been expressed that models of genitalia and a condom-fitting device were among the items on display in a Exeter library as a scheduled family-friendly library event took place.

- by BRADLEY GERRARD Local Democracy Reporter

Items on display during part of an event at Exeter Library

Two local politicians who attended have raised formal safeguarding concerns over displayed items they have dubbed “wholly inappropriate” for an event where young children were due to be present.

Councillors Ed Hill and Angi Nash, who are both former members of Reform UK but are now independents, have complained about aspects of the Young Person’s Day event at Exeter Library, which was part of the Out There Queer Fest, and was officially supported by Libraries Unlimited, Queer Diary and The Intercom Trust.

“Children as young as three were present,’ said Cllr Hill.