 Nutters
are calling for a box office boycott of two films that feature
inexplicit sex scenes involving young girls.
Hounddog, starring 14-year-old Dakota Fanning, drew controversy
when it appeared at the Sundance Film Festival last year for its scene
depicting the rape of a pre-teen girl.
A second film, Towelhead, stars Summer Bishil, an 18-year-old
actress portraying a 13-year-old girl who experiences her sexual
awakening on screen.
This is abhorrent and abusive, said Ted Baehr, chairman of the
Christian Film & Television Commission: We are calling on people to
avoid these movies, to tell other people not to see it.
Baehr said the movies are damaging to the child actresses filming the
explicit scenes, as well as the public at large: There are two sides
of it. The side of actual abuse to the actress and promoting or
condoning these activities.
Family and women's nutters have been especially active in North
Carolina, where the controversial child-rape scene in Hounddog
was filmed. Baehr said Hounddog received nearly $400,000 in tax
credits funded by state citizens.
Baehr has joined the No More Child Porn campaign, run by Donna
Mille of Concerned Women for America, a coalition of conservative women
who promote Biblical values and family traditions. They are a part of
about 200 smaller groups around the country who have joined the protest.
A spokesman for Warner Independent Pictures, which released Towelhead"
said, Our film deals with a girl's coming of age. He said that
the art-house production is rated R, and will be released Friday in
select cities across the country: It is a movie like any other movie.
It's an adaptation of a novel and a novel that was a New York Times best
seller.
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