"The Italian actress and director Asia Argento was among the first women in the movie business to publicly accuse the producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. She became a leading figure in the #MeToo movement."
"But in the months that followed her revelations about Mr. Weinstein last October, Ms. Argento quietly arranged to pay $380,000 to her own accuser: Jimmy Bennett, a young actor and rock musician who said she had sexually assaulted him in a California hotel room years earlier, when he was only two months past his 17th birthday. She was 37. The age of consent in California is 18."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/us/asia-argento-assault-jimmy-bennett.html
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Altmight ago
KEY DETAIL Mr. Bennett was 7 when he was cast in “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things,” a 2004 film Ms. Argento directed, starred in and helped write. The script, based on a book by the pseudonymous writer JT LeRoy, depicts the grim relationship between a drug-addicted prostitute played by Ms. Argento and her son, played by Mr. Bennett and two other young actors. Ms. Argento’s character dresses her son as a girl to lure men, and the boy is ultimately raped. ANYONE on vote who pays for cable is a conflicted person. CANCEL CABLE NOW. Stop feeding these monsters.
Jamescrow117 ago
What subjects do you feel should not be depicted in art besides pedophilia?
Necrophilia? Bestiality? Incest? Rape? Murder? Drug use?
Who gets to decide where the line is? Is the line the same for jokes? Do different rules apply to comedians?
Why do you think censorship will be effective in 2018 for the first time in recorded history?
Altmight ago
Canceling cable is boycott, not censorship. There is no art involved anyway. Its glamourous pornography. But its more the leftist propaganda that makes it absurd to pay for. And the degeneracy thrill is a bad habit too. Art is an excuse now. Child porn as "Art". Just pull your dick out and call it performance art. Child sacrifice is performance art. Just ask marque de sade. Comedy is not art either, its craft. As to what if any "art" should be ilegal? Tough question given whats considered art now. Some might think a snuff film is art. What if a person agrees to be the victim? Does it go from crime to legal torture porn snuff film art? All cable is mind rot propaganda in varying degrees. Absurd to pay for it. Im thinking of marginalizing it, not making it illegal. I think the NFL should be boycotted the same as the players boycott the anthem. What expressions should be ilegal if any? All actions are expression, is all expression art? I dont think so. Some might say yes. One mans degeneracy and crime is anothers artistic pleasure. I guess we can settle all of this on the battlefield in a civil war. The victor will decide. There was a happy medium of porography vs art or as art until the degerates came after the kids. If a comedian jokes about raping kids like Gunn did and someone beats him bloody, I wont protest, id lean toward him deserving it. If someone kills him in the act of raping children I say hero to the killer, some would say the pedo is a martyr.