Her views on the sex industry found hostility in a minority of the Goldsmith’s Feminist Society, and Smurthwaite alerted the Comedy Society to the potential for a protest of some sort. The show was cancelled and a statement put out by the Comedy Society: "Despite many complaints from students about the content of Kate’s act in the past we were planning to go ahead with the gig until Kate told me 24 hours before that there was likely to be a picket with lots of students and non students outside the venue. I couldn’t verify this. Up to this point we had only sold eight tickets so I decided to pull the plug."