The reason I know this is a "culture war" issue is you're coming here with such confidence spouting rumor and outright lies as known facts
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Replying to @WhackDatTower @arthur_affect
Where does IMDB say that the movie is “legally defined as pedophilic?”
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Replying to @zacharyherz @WhackDatTower
It doesn't, this is the Facebook meme it extrapolating from the dictionary definition of "pedophilia" "Pedophilic" is not the name of the legal concept, the relevant issue is whether it's "child pornography" and "obscene", which requires that it lack "serious artistic value"
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For the record, and I'm not defending these other movies, Cuties is objectively way, way less problematic than earlier well known films like Kids (1995), which features actual sex scenes, or Pretty Baby (1978), which has actual underage nudity
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Replying to @WhackDatTower @zacharyherz
It's not gaslighting if I'm telling you facts, and what I'm saying is there's a ton of distance between "bad" and "illegal"
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Except it fails the DOST test.
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The Dost test (it's not an acronym, it's the last name of the defendant in the court case) is a subset of the Miller doctrine The Miller doctrine is three-pronged and the Dost test is an examination of the third prong
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I.e. after it's determined the material has no "serious artistic value" and "violates contemporary community standards", the Dost test answers the question of whether it "appeals to prurient interest"
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And the Dost test itself has one of its six parts be asking whether the depiction is "intended to elicit a sexual response in the viewer" Intent is *always* a *major* factor in evaluating the legal concept of obscenity, as it should be
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