Backlash Heightens as Netflix Peddles Pornographic Film
'Cuties'


A new hashtag is trending on Twitter: #CancelNetflix. Thousands of
Americans are canceling their Netflix subscriptions and taking to
social media to denounce the company's broadcasting of Cuties
- a new French film that centers on a group of 11-year old
Parisian girls in a hyper-sexualized dance troupe.

Despite Netflix's original poster ad for the film depicting
half-clothed adolescent girls in seductive positions, the streaming
service now describes the film innocently enough:
"Eleven-year-old Amy starts to rebel against her conservative
family's traditions when she becomes fascinated with a
free-spirited dance crew."

But the reality - from the clip I viewed as well reviews from
those who have seen the film in its entirety - is completely
different. As Rod Dreher at The American Conservative stated,
"[Cuties] centers on the grotesque sexualization of minor
girls" and "is a deeply dishonest film that exploits its
young cast nauseatingly."

The black and white of it is that the film stars scantily clad
pre-teens who perform stripper-like dance routines, including
twerking, suggestively sucking their fingers, and simulating sexual
acts. The film also includes clips of the girls watching hardcore porn
on their smartphones.

It is truly disgusting and deeply disturbing. As the mother of an
11-year old girl and her two younger sisters, I am outraged that
Netflix would air such a film, which is distasteful at best and
criminal at worst. Isn't Netflix run by adults? Some of whom
have young children? All of whom should care about objectifying
adolescent girls and sexualizing children?

Astonishingly, Netflix continues to defend the movie amid severe
backlash and numerous calls to #CancelNetflix. According to a Netflix
spokesperson, Cuties is a "powerful story about the pressure
young girls face on social media and from society more generally
growing up - and we'd encourage anyone who cares about
these important issues to watch the movie."

NO THANKS, Netflix!

I won't be watching this garbage, but more importantly, I
don't want my daughters watching this pornographic film, nor the
pedophiles who prey on young girls.

Which begs the question - who, exactly, is Netflix's
target audience here?

I shudder to think it is adolescent girls and pedophiles - yet
those are the populations most likely to be interested in a movie
about adolescent girls who perform sexually explicit dance routines
with close-up shots of their pelvic areas, behinds and in one shot
- a bare breast.

The images and dancing in Cuties are nothing less than obscene and
pornographic.

Any business that peddles child pornography and any film producer that
promotes the sexualization of children should be held accountable.

Thankfully, some in Washington agree and they are doing something
about it. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has written to Netflix and urged
them to take down Cuties immediately. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has
called on the Department of Justice to investigate whether the film
violates federal law, while Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rep. Jim
Banks (R-Ind.) have asked the DOJ to take swift action and prosecute
Netflix for the distribution of child pornography. These Members of
Congress and others, including Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii),
are speaking boldly in defense of children.

Gabbard tweeted "child porn 'Cuties' will certainly
whet the appetite of pedophiles & help fuel the child sex
trafficking trade. 1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It
happened to my friend's 13 year old daughter."

And she's exactly right. Pornography increases the demand for
sex trafficking and is used to groom trafficking victims. Another word
for "trafficking" is "slavery." Films like
Cuties fuel modern-day child sex slavery. Pornography also steals our
children's innocence, increases violence against women, causes
psychological addiction and destroys families.

The movement to #CancelNetflix is not about one distasteful, offensive
film. The Cuties backlash is about a lot of sensible Americans saying
"Enough is enough. Stop the sexualization of our children and
the infiltration of pornography into our culture and homes."

How do we do that?

The good news is that we don't need new laws to prevent images
like those seen in Cuties appearing in our living rooms. The bad news
is that federal obscenity laws are not being readily enforced.

For several months, Family Policy Alliance has collected signatures on
a petition to Attorney General William Barr asking him to declare
obscenity prosecution a national priority at the Department of Justice
and to vigorously enforce current obscenity laws, including laws
against child pornography.

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We will soon deliver this petition to the Department of Justice. If
you haven't done so already, please take a moment to sign the
petition today.

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You may also consider canceling your Netflix subscription or joining
the movement on social media to call Netflix to account and urge the
company to reverse course on peddling child pornography.

For children and families,

Amanda Banks
Director, External Relations

 


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