Smut Slam at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026

“That’s not all Moore is doing – her custom erotica stand is an innovative way of drumming up support for Smut Slam, her nightly session of dirty storytelling that has travelled the globe since she started it in a Boston Irish pub in 2011. There’s a segment in the show in which anonymous sex stories are dropped in a bucket and picked out to be read aloud. ‘One story that comes up a lot lately is someone finding out that their hook-up is radically rightwing.’ Others have involved people falling asleep during threesomes or nipple rings going astray at sex clubs.”

“‘I am forever amazed at the variety that exists in the human sexual experience,’ laughs Moore.”

…”Moore sees smut’s power entwined with the sexual politics of our age. ‘It’s a mistake to underestimate the power of raw, authentic language,’ she says. ‘It’s very easy to write off smutty humour as just tits and giggles. But if you’re good at it, you will plant seeds that are going to have people thinking about their own stuff, perhaps about shame in their own life, or how they’re having these conversations with other people.’”

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