# Movies Which Depict Sexual Abuse of Children (Not about child porn) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-which-depict-sexual-abuse-of-children-not-about-child-porn/255297 "2004-07-15T18:32:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-which-depict-sexual-abuse-of-children-not-about-child-porn/255297/41 "2004-07-17T02:10:45Z")
**Ivylass** -it was both. (At least according to the book). ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-which-depict-sexual-abuse-of-children-not-about-child-porn/255297/42 "2004-07-17T02:28:54Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Since any portrayal of sex between someone under 18 and an adult can be construed as sexual abuse, there are the following: > > There was a scene in **Almost Famous** when the 15 year old Cameron Crowe character is taken to bed by a couple of groupies. Though he doesn’t seem to have any problems with the experience. The ages of those particular groupies were not mentioned, but as Miss Penny Lane was apparently only 16 herself it seems reasonable to guess that the other girls may have been under 18 as well. It’s certainly not clear that they’re legally adults. I’ve always been uncomfortable with that scene myself though, just because the boy initially protests and has to be dragged onto the bed by the girls. It seems that he wasn’t truly unwilling, just nervous and embarassed, but it always creeps me out when there’s any kind of sex scene in a movie that suggests coerced sex. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-which-depict-sexual-abuse-of-children-not-about-child-porn/255297/43 "2004-07-17T02:37:56Z")
The movie _Big_ freaked me out when I saw it. Tom Hanks plays a 10-year old boy who has sex with a grown-up woman. Very disturbing. I only saw a little bit of Robin Williams in _Jack_ but I got the impression something similar happened here too. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-which-depict-sexual-abuse-of-children-not-about-child-porn/255297/44 "2004-07-17T02:57:45Z")
The movie _Big_ freaked me out when I saw it. Tom Hanks plays a 10-year old boy who has sex with a grown-up woman. Very disturbing. I only saw a little bit of Robin Williams in _Jack_ but I got the impression something similar happened here too. ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-which-depict-sexual-abuse-of-children-not-about-child-porn/255297/45 "2004-07-17T11:43:15Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > The movie _Big_ freaked me out when I saw it. Tom Hanks plays a 10-year old boy who has sex with a grown-up woman. Very disturbing. I don’t think Tom Hanks’s character slept with Elizabeth Perkins’s character in _Big_. He demanded the top bunk while she was on the bottom bunk, remember? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-which-depict-sexual-abuse-of-children-not-about-child-porn/255297/46 "2004-07-17T13:05:29Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > In _Sybil_, wasn’t her mother raping her with an old-fashioned shoe buttonhook? Either that, or douching her with ice water? All of the above. And in another amazingly graphic for network TV scene- the Jean Smart movie about Aileen Wournos in which she flashbacks to being raped as a little girl by her teen brother who also puts out his cigarette on her forehead. They actually show him, while both are fully clothed, his pants seem open & her skirt bunched up, pumping away at her. EWWWWWWW! ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-which-depict-sexual-abuse-of-children-not-about-child-porn/255297/47 "2004-07-30T05:44:33Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > Good God. Yeah, that one nearly killed me, watching it. Can you tell I was a Canadian and Catholic at the time? > > In “The Cell”, which I could not watch all of… was there sexual abuse of the child, or was it only physical and verbal? I had to turn it off when the father (?) hit him with the iron. Have not seen it in a long time so I really don’t remember…I wanted to mention that in Melvin Van Peebles 1970’s film “Sweet Sweetbacks Badaaaaas Song” in one of the opening scenes Mario Van Peebles who was 11 at the time was nude, pretty much full frontal nudity not for a long amount of time but he was nude and simulated sex with a woman in the movie who was playing the role of a prostitute. Not only did Melvin get away with it but I think that a lot of people feel it was one of the greatest movies of all times including my own father. Apparently it was the turning point from so called blaxploitation films to more serious films although I have never seen more than 30 minutes of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-which-depict-sexual-abuse-of-children-not-about-child-porn/255297/48 "2004-07-30T16:26:53Z")
> [@MidnightRadio](#): > > I don’t think Tom Hanks’s character slept with Elizabeth Perkins’s character in _Big_. He demanded the top bunk while she was on the bottom bunk, remember? Yes, in the early part of their relationship. Later, they kiss, she starts unbuttoning her blouse and then reaches behind her to turn off the light. He smiles and turns the light back on. The sex takes place off screen, but I was certain they’d done it when I saw the movie some time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-which-depict-sexual-abuse-of-children-not-about-child-porn/255297/49 "2004-07-30T18:51:53Z")
Two that really stood out for me when I saw them were _Dolores Claiborne_ young girl forced to give daddy a handjob on a ferry, and much worse implied and _Prince of Tides_ young boy being raped, and we see way too much of it I really hate that shit, especially when I’m totally unprepared for it. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-which-depict-sexual-abuse-of-children-not-about-child-porn/255297/50 "2004-07-31T01:35:29Z")
Don’t know if these count: There was a Richard Pryor movie, the name of which I can’t remember, where I think he was driving a bus full of children (war orphans?). One little girl, no older than 11 or 12, had been a prostitute, and she thinks that having sex with adult men is a perfectly normal thing. She keeps trying to get Pryor to sleep with her, but Pryor is completely horrified at the suggestion and of course doesn’t do it. In the Melanie Griffith movie _Milk Money_, two young brothers decide that they want to see boobies. So they save up their milk money for months, then take it into town and offer it to a prostitute (Griffith) to show them her breasts. I seem to remember that she actually does it. And then follows them home and falls in love with their father. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-which-depict-sexual-abuse-of-children-not-about-child-porn/255297.md?page=2)