no it doesn't. there is nothing inherent to telling a story about younger people with older actors that necessarily sexualises or justifies sexualisation.
some films certainly sexualize highschoolers and employ older performers to do that---the problem there is the work sexualizing them. no one decreed high school stories have to do that.
no it doesn't. there is nothing inherent to telling a story about younger people with older actors that necessarily sexualises or justifies sexualisation.
some films certainly sexualize highschoolers and employ older performers to do that---the problem there is the work sexualizing them. no one decreed high school stories have to do that.
To some extent, both the producers and much of the audience did. :kombucha-disgust:
if that's the case i prefer adults be put in the producer-mandated sexualization over teens then