{"id":304986,"date":"2024-03-12T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=304986"},"modified":"2024-03-13T21:05:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T02:05:39","slug":"emma-stone-film-child-sexual-abuse-disturbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/emma-stone-film-child-sexual-abuse-disturbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood awards multiple Oscars to film that nearly broke child sexual abuse law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Update 3\/12\/24<\/strong>: “Poor Things,” the film that would have broken a UK child sexual abuse law if it hadn’t edited out a scene in which Emma Stone’s character has sex with a client in front of his two young sons, has taken home four Oscars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The film was nominated for several Oscars including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay but ultimately won for Best Actress (Stone), Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.<\/p>\n

1\/11\/24<\/strong>: A new movie starring actress Emma Stone is being criticized for featuring children in an adult sex scene, further raising alarm for how much children are sexualized in Hollywood and in overall culture.<\/p>\n

In an apparent twist on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” “Poor Things” tells the story of a woman named Bella Baxter, played by Stone, who initially committed suicide while pregnant. A mad scientist finds her body and takes the brain of her preborn child, implants it into Bella’s body, and resurrects her. This results in a living person with an adult woman’s body and an infant’s mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From the very beginning of the film<\/a>, Bella is depicted engaging in sexual behavior, even when she purportedly has an infant’s mind<\/em>. This, alone, is disturbing given that Planned Parenthood’s allies commonly repeat the claim that “children are sexual beings” \u2014 and by this, they typically mean that even very young children can experience sexual feelings and desires much like adults \u2014 an assertion based on the pedophilic<\/a> “research<\/a>” of Alfred Kinsey.<\/p>\n

Though she develops throughout the movie, Bella has a child-like mind, and yet she frequently has sex<\/a> in the film, including while engaging in prostitution. This is portrayed as justifiable<\/a>\u00a0because Bella \u201cis a being of free will” and therefore has the agency to do what she likes; even her would-be husband shrugs off her promiscuity, remarking, \u201cIt is your body, Bella Baxter; yours to give freely.”<\/p>\n

As if this weren’t disturbing enough, one of the scenes in the movie is garnering a great deal of controversy. Bella has many clients while working in a brothel, but one of them is a father, who brings his two sons there to watch him have sex with her<\/em>, as a warped version of sexual education.<\/p>\n