Yes Virginia "Cuties" is child porn by legal standards

A Supreme Court justice once said that pornography is hard to define but he knew it when he saw it.

Because pornography is hard to define the US legal system has come up with a 6 point test to determine if something is child pornography; it's called the Dost test:

1. Whether the focal point of the visual depiction is on the child's genitalia or pubic area.
2. Whether the setting of the visual depiction is sexually suggestive, i.e., in a place or pose generally associated with sexual activity.
3. Whether the child is depicted in an unnatural pose, or in inappropriate attire, considering the age of the child.
4. Whether the child is fully or partially clothed, or nude.
5. Whether the visual depiction suggests sexual coyness or a willingness to engage in sexual activity.
6. Whether the visual depiction is intended or designed to elicit a sexual response in the viewer.

While those who are defending Cuties as art say that it's wonderful they do admit enough about it, things confirmed by strong stomached people who have actually watched the filth, to show that it passes the Dost test and is child pornography.

But before doing that I'd like to create the one point Trinko test:

1. Whether the movie contains little girls twerking

Now that may seem to simple but here's the dictionary definition of twerking:

sexually suggestive dancing characterized by rapid, repeated hip thrusts and shaking of the buttocks especially while squatting

Any movie that has 11 year old girls dancing in a sexually suggestive way by rapid repeated hip thrusts and shaking their buttocks while squatting is child pornography.  

Anyone who disagrees with that is someone you don't ever want your children near.

But for those who need more convincing let's walk through the Dost test using things even the movies defenders agree are in Cuties keeping in mind that not all of the 6 points needs to be met in order to find that the work is child pornography:

1. It is agreed that many scenes in the movie focus on the 11 year old girls crotches. There's a promotional still out with the girls splaying their hands immediately in front of the genitals. The movie also contains many close ups of the spread legged girls crotches. Hence Cuties passes the first test.
2. It's agreed that the girls are twerking. Twerking is universally views as sexually suggestive. Hence Cuties passes the second test
3. It's agreed that the girls wear skimpy bikini like costumes.  It's also agreed that the camera does close ups of the little girls twerking posteriors. Twerking one's posterior is not a natural pose for an 11 year old girl. Hence Cuties passes the third test
4. Nudity isn't a requirement for something to be pornographic when children are involved. However the movie does show a very young girl sending nude pictures of herself though the actual picture isn't shown so nudity is implied. "Child pornography is considered to be any depiction of a minor or an individual who appears to be a minor who is engaged in sexual or sexually related conduct." Further at least one person I know who watched the movie said that one of the little girls exposed one of her breasts for a moment though a defender of the movie says that didn't occur.
5. It's agreed that the girls "dancing" includes pointing their posteriors toward the audience and waging them in a suggestive way as well as the girls spreading their legs and pointing their crotches to the audience.  Those poses clearly suggest a sexual coyness. Hence Cuties passes the 5th test.
6. Women twerk to turn men on. Women go spread legged to turn men on. Given that it's agreed that the little girls do both in the movie it's obvious that the movie will in fact elicit a sexual response from child molesters. Hence Cuties fails the 6th tests.

It's clear that by the legal definition of child pornography Cuties is child pornography.

But it's even worse than that.  The "actresses", who are more accurately referred to as "exploited children", were forced to do sexualizing things. 

The defenders of the movie say that it's ok to sexualize little girls in order to show that sexualizing little girls is wrong. Thats clearly insane or dishonest. Imagine if someone made a movie about Black slaves and actually enslaved Blacks? Would anyone think that that was ok?

As usual the Baylon Bee cut to the chase with this great post:

New Netflix Movie Actually Murders Puppies To Teach That Murdering Puppies Is Bad https://t.co/wQSQjTDsdB

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 14, 2020

People forget that Cuties isn't an animation and CGI wasn't used to make adult actresses look young.

When viewers see an 11 year old girl twerking her posterior in their faces that's a real 11 year old girl.

The people behind the movie knew that they were abusing the actresses which is why they hired a shrink to work with the kids. 

We can't let them normalize child pornography.  If you subscribe to Netflix drop your subscription now. If you know people who have Netflix tell them what Netflix is doing and get them to drop their subscriptions now. Worst case scenario binge watch the series you're addicted to this weekend and drop your subscription on Monday.