[sinsofsolarempirefan]

“Pretty baby” and “Blue Lagoon” where undoubtedly prurient and should not have been made.

The issue isn’t about a theme revolving around child abuse, it is about sexualising the child actors in the film. “Pretty Baby” featured an underaged Brooke Shields fully nude in many scenes. That was totally unneccessary and prurient as well as exploitative and wrong. I’m not even sure how it got made and everyone involved didn’t get arrested to be honest.

As for ‘cuties’ for a film that ostensibly is a critique on the hypersexualisation, it does a lot of hypersexualisation of the child actors involved in making it. Its a bit like making a film criticising racism and then paying all the actors involved different rates according to their race.

[Parody]

Well, these are the parameters laid out in the article. As with Kids, Private Lessons, and Taxi Driver, Pretty Baby was probably disqualified because Brooke Shields' character was indicated to be 13 years old. (That makes her one of those "teens played by... actual teens" since she actually was 13 in 1978) As he says, every piece on his list is "...tweens and kids in the single digits [having sex]."