{"id":755591,"date":"2021-09-15T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T18:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=755591"},"modified":"2021-09-15T14:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T18:51:10","slug":"exclusive-parents-group-demands-netflix-be-investigated-for-pornographic-show-involving-middle-schoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-parents-group-demands-netflix-be-investigated-for-pornographic-show-involving-middle-schoolers\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Parents Group Demands Netflix Be Investigated For Pornographic Show Involving Middle-Schoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-parents-group-demands-netflix-be-investigated-for-pornographic-show-involving-middle-schoolers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=755591&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1316489105-2-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Though Netflix\u2019s animated series, \u201cBig Mouth,\u201d bills itself as TV-MA and is ostensibly intended for adults, it features 12- and 13-year-old characters engaging in sex acts and includes animated nudity and graphic dialogue, according to a parents group demanding Netflix be investigated over the show.<\/p>\n<p>One scene, for example, shows a 13-year-old boy who doesn\u2019t want to be left at camp yelling, \u201cI\u2019ll suck your d**k,\u201d to his departing father. Another shows a group of middle school boys fully nude in a shower, waving their penises. Still another scene shows two boys discussing mutual masturbation, sharing tips on how to masturbate, and fondling themselves in front of one another.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parentstv.org\/images\/pages\/Big-Mouth-Report.pdf\">report<\/a> from the Parents Television Council (PTC) argues that, despite being a cartoon, \u201cBig Mouth\u2019s\u201d sexually explicit content is meant to depict minors and therefore qualifies as child pornography. The group is calling on law enforcement to investigate the distributor, Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>For the report, released Wednesday, the PTC reviewed ten episodes of \u201cBig Mouth.\u201d Among the explicit content it found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A child is held down and has a penis forced into his mouth.<\/li>\n<li>A minor exposes his scrotum.<\/li>\n<li>Minors are shown in a shower with erect penises.<\/li>\n<li>A child urinates on another child in a shower.<\/li>\n<li>A male minor character penetrates a female minor character with his fingers.<\/li>\n<li>A character suggests having sex with his own excrement and eating it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While much of this material is expressed through dialogue, some scenes do depict sex acts and show nudity. In total, the PTC reports, these ten episodes included 17 instances of animated nudity, primarily depicting the genitals of middle-school boys and girls.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Winters, President of the PTC tells The Daily Wire that it would be very tough to argue that this material does not meet the threshold for child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI relish the chance to go into a courtroom, with Netflix as a defendant and the creators of this program for producing and distributing it as co-defendants,\u201d he says. He adds that the PTC wants to make sure that law enforcement \u2014 including federal, state, and local jurisdictions \u2014evaluate the content for themselves to see if laws have been broken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not just talking about the \u2018I know it when I see it\u2019 [Supreme Court] Justice Stewart Potter definition of pornography. Although I think Potter Stewart would agree that he would look at this and know it.\u201d Winters says. \u201cBut when you look at most contemporary definitions of what pornography is \u2014 sexually-oriented material that is intended to pander and titillate \u2014 I think [Big Mouth] reaches that. The fact that it is children engaged in the pornographic content, I think renders it child pornography.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winters acknowledges that some may find this series less controversial than the French film, \u201cCuties.\u201d which embroiled the streaming network in a child exploitation scandal last year. In that case, the live-action movie featured 11- and 12-year-old girls twerking and performing sexually suggestive dance moves. After news of the film broke, a boycott campaign began that ultimately resulted in the streaming giant seeing an 800% increase in subscription cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>But Winters argues this occasion shouldn\u2019t be any different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t necessarily have to be live action in order to be pornographic,\u201d he says. \u201cYou know, there have been pornographic cartoons for decades if not longer. So I truly believe that this reaches that level and we intend to use the full force and credibility and weight of our grassroots membership around the country to push this out to law enforcement to see if, in fact, laws were broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One bit of evidence Winters and the PTC might have on their side \u2014 some of Big Mouth\u2019s own actors are on record questioning whether the show qualifies as child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/how-netflixs-puberty-show-big-mouth-ever-got-made\/1100-6454063\/\">GameSpot<\/a> asked creator Andrew Goldberg in a 2017 interview about the legality of showing animated pre-teens\u2019 genitals, Goldberg replied, \u201cThe question was asked, I think by [comedian] John Mulaney, on day one,\u201d Goldberg said. \u201cHe\u2019s like, \u2018Are we sure we\u2019re not doing child pornography?\u2019 And we really thought about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Goldberg insisted that was not his goal. Instead, he said he and his team wanted adult viewers to look back and say of adolescence, \u201c\u2019Wow, that\u2019s just what it was like, or what it is like, going through this, and I feel better and not alone.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Henson, PTC program director and parent of 13-year old, argues the perverse content discussed and depicted on the show is in no way a commonplace reality for the average tween.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[My son] is the same age as the characters that are depicted in this show and that\u2019s not my experience, \u201cshe says. \u201cIf [\u2018Big Mouth\u2019] is for adults to look back at puberty with the distance of time, what, what advantage, what benefit is gained for those adult viewers to have animated versions of children\u2019s genitals on screen? How is that going to help them be more nostalgic? If, on the other hand, this is intended for children, how does society benefit by sexualizing children in this really disturbing way?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Mouth\u201d and \u201cCuties\u201d hardly represent the only instances where the streaming giant has courted controversy around content featuring children.&nbsp;In 2019 it aired a film titled \u201cDesire,\u201d which depicted a 9-year-old girl masturbating in front of a mirror with a pillow. And the two seasons of the teen series \u201cSex Education\u201d depict high-schoolers engaging in graphic sex acts.<\/p>\n<p>Taken all together, Winters says Netflix seems to be trying to create a brand around the sexual exploitation of children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is it is shocking and it\u2019s a whole new level,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s something that we a have never seen before and we honestly could never have imagined before\u2026Netflix especially seems to have really staked out a position with several different television shows that are not only proven to be toxic for children but technically exploitative, with shows and films like \u201cDesire,\u201d \u201cCuties,\u201d \u201cSex Education. And now this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like the other series Winters highlighted, \u201cBig Mouth\u201d has achieved wide critical acclaim, with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) nominating it in its annual awards for the best LBGT-related television.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire reached out to Netflix for a response to allegations \u201cBig Mouth\u201d constitutes child pornography and did not receive a timely response.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Netflix\u2019s animated series, \u201cBig Mouth,\u201d bills itself as TV-MA and is ostensibly intended for adults, it features 12- and 13-year-old characters engaging in sex acts and includes animated nudity &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}