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Remove child exploitation film!
Please remove the Argentinian movie that Netflix offers called Desire, which appears to portray child pornography - or at minimum inappropriately sexualizes a child.
Netflix needs to issue an apology and commit to new standards to ensure this doesn't happen again!
Below are standards proposed by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. You can reach out to consult with them on how to improve your policies at public@ncose.com:
National Center on Sexual Exploitation's Proposed Entertainment Industry Standard on the Depiction of Sexual Exploitation
Whereas cultural values of equity and sexual consent are often shaped by the creative storytelling community, film studios must hold themselves to a high standard in order to depict issues regarding sexual exploitation and gender inequality in a socially responsible manner.
Accordingly, we commit to the following:
1. Refraining from gratuitous portrayals of sexual harassment, coercion, or violence against
women, men, or children by not displaying prolonged or eroticized scenes with such
content;
2. Combating the normalization of behaviors associated with sexual entitlement,
harassment, and violence by minimizing nudity, particularly female nudity which is more
common than male nudity in top films;(1)
3. Thoughtfully eschewing the glamorization or normalization of the sexual
commodification of another person, such as through the irresponsible portrayals of the
sexually exploitive institutions of prostitution, strip clubs, and pornography;
4. Never producing any promotional materials or developing content that sexualizes
children (person aged-17 or below) or those portrayed as children by adult actors.
(1) The Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative reports that 25.9% of females and 5.7% of males were shown in sexually revealing attire, 25.6% of females and 9.2% of males were shown partially or fully naked, and females aged 13-20 were just as likely as those 21-39 to be shown in sexy attire or nude. See: Stacy L. Smith, Marc Choueiti, and Katherine Peiper,
“Inequality in 900 Popular Films: Examining Portrayals of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, LGBT, and Disability from 2007-2016,” (USC Annenberg; Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative, 2017),
Netflix needs new standards
Netflix needs to do better.
Please remove the Argentinian movie, Desire. It is portraying what looks like child pornography according to the Department of Justice's definitions!
Netflix needs to issue an apology and commit to new standards to ensure this doesn't happen again!
Below are standards proposed by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. You can reach out to consult with them on how to improve your policies at public@ncose.com:
National Center on Sexual Exploitation's Proposed Entertainment Industry Standard on the Depiction of Sexual Exploitation
Whereas cultural values of equity and sexual consent are often shaped by the creative storytelling community, film studios must hold themselves to a high standard in order to depict issues regarding sexual exploitation and gender inequality in a socially responsible manner.
Accordingly, we commit to the following:
1. Refraining from gratuitous portrayals of sexual harassment, coercion, or violence against
women, men, or children by not displaying prolonged or eroticized scenes with such
content;
2. Combating the normalization of behaviors associated with sexual entitlement,
harassment, and violence by minimizing nudity, particularly female nudity which is more
common than male nudity in top films;(1)
3. Thoughtfully eschewing the glamorization or normalization of the sexual
commodification of another person, such as through the irresponsible portrayals of the
sexually exploitive institutions of prostitution, strip clubs, and pornography;
4. Never producing any promotional materials or developing content that sexualizes
children (person aged-17 or below) or those portrayed as children by adult actors.
(1) The Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative reports that 25.9% of females and 5.7% of males were shown in sexually revealing attire, 25.6% of females and 9.2% of males were shown partially or fully naked, and females aged 13-20 were just as likely as those 21-39 to be shown in sexy attire or nude. See: Stacy L. Smith, Marc Choueiti, and Katherine Peiper,
“Inequality in 900 Popular Films: Examining Portrayals of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, LGBT, and Disability from 2007-2016,” (USC Annenberg; Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative, 2017),
Urgent fix to your content policies
Please remove the movie Desire, which appears to portray child pornography!
But do not just remove the movie.
It's clear that Netflix needs new standards so that this doesn't happen again!
Below are standards proposed by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. You can reach out to consult with them on how to improve your policies at public@ncose.com:
National Center on Sexual Exploitation's Proposed Entertainment Industry Standard on the Depiction of Sexual Exploitation
Whereas cultural values of equity and sexual consent are often shaped by the creative storytelling community, film studios must hold themselves to a high standard in order to depict issues regarding sexual exploitation and gender inequality in a socially responsible manner.
Accordingly, we commit to the following:
1. Refraining from gratuitous portrayals of sexual harassment, coercion, or violence against
women, men, or children by not displaying prolonged or eroticized scenes with such
content;
2. Combating the normalization of behaviors associated with sexual entitlement,
harassment, and violence by minimizing nudity, particularly female nudity which is more
common than male nudity in top films;(1)
3. Thoughtfully eschewing the glamorization or normalization of the sexual
commodification of another person, such as through the irresponsible portrayals of the
sexually exploitive institutions of prostitution, strip clubs, and pornography;
4. Never producing any promotional materials or developing content that sexualizes
children (person aged-17 or below) or those portrayed as children by adult actors.
(1) The Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative reports that 25.9% of females and 5.7% of males were shown in sexually revealing attire, 25.6% of females and 9.2% of males were shown partially or fully naked, and females aged 13-20 were just as likely as those 21-39 to be shown in sexy attire or nude. See: Stacy L. Smith, Marc Choueiti, and Katherine Peiper,
“Inequality in 900 Popular Films: Examining Portrayals of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, LGBT, and Disability from 2007-2016,” (USC Annenberg; Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative, 2017),