kiddie porn or not

Kind of hard for it to be porn when there was no actual intercourse in the film. Please learn what pornography means before deeming something as such! Pretty Baby isn't porn! Highly disturbing cause it contains hints of sexual content, but no one is having sex on screen! There is a HUGE difference!

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Whats the problem with nudity, even childnudity? Something to hide, or be afraid of or ashamed?
Having not seen the movie(just saw Blue Lagoon again, and they dealt very mature and calmly with the whole minor-sexuality case, then again i read the naked breast parts closeups were done by a stand-in, why i dont know but i trust it was the best choice), i just read they reframed the nudity parts. From a aesthetical point of view its a big shame. There is nothing fearfull or wrong in seing children naked. If its not sexually explicit in any ways, which i find it VERY hard to believe, there should be absolutely no problem. Some viewers will probably find it sexually though. And that is the problematic part. Nudity is forever linked to sexuality, even if its not intended.

Would i allow my childen to do such scenes? Only if NO sexually explicit images were filmed at all. But nudity at any age, if its done in a very artistical way ,sure.
Lets deal with child-sexuality and nudity with care and not try to label it as "bad" and stigmatize the whole issue. Its far too beatiful and natural to be treated this way.

Not. This is not exploitation. Anyone expecting to be aroused here will be disappointed.

For a 13yo boy, perhaps. But nah, you see more these days during peak hour TV (maybe not in America).

But it amazes me how many posters care how other people interpret visual images, after all they are just a a bunch of pixels. If some weirdo get's turned on while watching Skrek, Cinderella, Saving Private Ryan, heaven forbid, this movie, what business it is of yours?

I have kid...would I ever let them do nude scenes, hell no! Not for any money.

And I pity girls who's parents allow their young daughters to dress up in short skirts & small tops & g-strings (which let's face it only prostitutes would wear only a decade or so ago). But hey, that's their business, I have my own family to take care of. If they wan't to cater to horny guys, who are we to stop 'em?

The world is going to hell, prosecuting thought crimes is the last of our worries.

This has been a long post and there are many interesting responds from all people. I am just replying to the poster and not against anyone who has participated in this post.

So, kiddie porn or not? Depends on which era!

In Renaissance time, we found many paintings involved nudity, from men to women to children. No one complains, the world was happy.

Today, especially in American, people grow so sensitive that they dial 911 if they see little Jake in “Two and a Half Men” saying or hearing a sexually implying word!

Why have we become like this? It’s because people so focusing on little things so up close, they became blind to the big picture. “Pretty Baby” was a story about the degree of prostitutes and people’s casual relationship that was tolerable at that time, just like gladiators killing each other or prisoners feed to the lions in public were legal and accepted by Roman society back then. The story took place in 1917, when child nudity and sex acts were not even an issue. And being filmed at the 70’s, when child porn was being aware but prevention act was not set. Art/porn material that involved children were not clearly draw at that time, and material of this kind were continued being produce right along side with other topics like SM and bestiality (sorry to bring this up!). I’m not saying that it could be bought at newsstands. I’m just saying how openly it was to produce such materials, because finding any print houses to print a magazine was a big deal back than, cost, labor and machinery. Until 1996 the act was carried out and from then ‘til 2003, any materials involve children posing or implying in a sexual way, clothes or naked, were consider child pornography and banned everywhere in the world.

So, “Pretty Baby” IS considered kiddie porn in today’s era because a) It involves picture or video of an underage modeling in the nude, and b) the material is being exploit, access to those who wants to see it – with a price. “Pretty Baby” however, WAS NOT considered kiddie porn at the time of production and release.

But for those who loved “Pretty Baby” or “Blue Lagoon” because of its beauty, I say GO BUY A COPY!! They were beautiful movies so why not own them and watch them?? If you are pure hearted and simply love the story, the scenery, or even the beauty of children’s body, why not? As long as it doesn’t trigger any evil thought that may draw you to harm children – in fantasy or practice, then you are no more wrong that looking at Statue of David.

And for those who stereotypes people who watch these movies, you people are worse! You are NAIVE because you think and do what people told you should, without analyzing yourself what’s right and wrong, or ask if those people themselves know what they were talking about! You are STUPID because you cannot tell between pornography and art, so you think all nudity are porn. You are the kind of people who puts signs over David’s genital and Venus’ breasts and call them obscene. You are HYPOCRITES because you say you do this to protect your children, yet you brainwash them with cartoons full of commercials values and consumer toys, teach them to masquerade their purity faces with heavy makeups and glamorous dress and send them to child beauty pageants, feed them with high cholesterol junk food so they grow to 300lb and stuck on their couch for 20 years. I ask you, who is worse??



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Obviously not.

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Stupid frickin' OP.