Tyger Takes On... How Straight Am I? TV review: The actor joins in a "sex party"
The son of a porn actor and a model, Tyger is a broad-minded type, and, so it seems, is most of his generation
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Your support makes all the difference.Even by today's liberal standards I wasn't quite prepared for a televised orgy on the BBC, and neither was Tyger Drew-Honey, an 18 year old man of determinedly heterosexual preferences who, in the name of public service broadcasting, took on the task of joining in a "sex party", comprising 70 couples and 20 single women, plus himself and a camera crew.
The son of a porn actor and a model, Tyger is a broad-minded type, and, so it seems, is most of his generation, who seem to be inventing new variations of sexuality as readily as they load apps on to their smartphones; pan sexuality, heteroflexible, demi-sexual… the sexo-list goes on. I suppose most of these have been going for as long as humanity itself, but we just didn't have names for them. Rollerblading (not a sexual euphemism) in the park with Lauren, organiser of the sex parties, Tyger was gently told that women can be better lovers than men, and educated us as to why women who enjoy active sex lives aren't "sluts".
The rainbow flag seems an appropriate symbol for all of our sexualities, because it is a spectrum, after all, and an increasingly visible one. Even so, Tyger remained resistant to Brooke, a breathtakingly beautiful transgender woman (who wants to keep her male sexual organs). I certainly admired Brooke's spirit, yelling back at a female street heckler "I'm more of a woman than you, and I've got a c**k".
On a night out with Brooke, Tyger also discovered that tolerance levels in Peterhead are a little lower than in Brighton, and the rainbow of sexuality is not yet universally understood. Anyway, he's hanging onto his penis for now.
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