TEXAS, September 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Texas legislator Matt Schaefer has called for an investigation into a new Netflix film accused by conservative commentators of promoting “child porn.”

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Shaefer announced on social media that he is asking the state’s Attorney General’s Office to “investigate the Netflix film ‘Cuties’ for possible violations of child exploitation and child pornography laws.” Conservative commentators and social media–users are calling for Netflix to be “canceled” after the film about girls as young as 11 performing sexualized dance acts went live on the platform.

I have asked Texas Attorney General Paxton’s office to investigate the @netflix film “Cuties” for possible violations of child exploitation and child pornography laws. #CUTIES #txlege

— Matt Schaefer (@RepMattSchaefer) September 10, 2020

Robby Starbuck, a director and producer, said, “The whole team behind Cuties needs to be investigated.”

Starbuck highlighted a January interview with Cuties director Maïmouna Doucouré in which she says that “more than 700 young girls” had auditioned for the film, “none of whom had ever done theatre before coming on set.”

“As a director I call [sic] tell you it’s not normal to audition 700 little girls with no acting experience,” Starbuck posted to Twitter. “What were they told to do during auditions? They preyed on inexperienced people starstruck by Hollywood.”

The whole team behind Cuties needs to be investigated. Look what I found. As a director I call tell you it’s not normal to audition 700 little girls with no acting experience. What were they told to do during auditions? They preyed on inexperienced people starstruck by Hollywood. pic.twitter.com/8hXBrVVvE0

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 11, 2020

Lila Rose, founder and president of the pro-life group Live Action, has posted a series of tweets making the case that the filmmakers have broken U.S. law on “child porn” because the film “blatantly zooms in on sexual parts of little girls as they dance suggestively, partially clothed, for adult audiences, as explicit sexual ‘exploration.’” . . .

1. Whether the focal point of the visual depiction is on the child’s genitalia or pubic area;

2. Whether the setting of the depiction is sexually suggestive, that is, in a place or pose associated with sexual activity;

— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) September 10, 2020

3. Whether the child is depicted in an unnatural pose or in inappropriate attire, considering the age of the child;

4. Wether the child is fully or partially nude;

5. Whether the visual depiction suggests sexual coyness or a willingness to engage in sexual activity; or

— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) September 10, 2020

Dr. Joseph Shaw, an Oxford University philosophy teacher and father of eight children, argued that the “producers of the series are themselves sexualizing and exploiting the child actors, and serving up their sexualized performances for consumption by male critics like themselves.”

“If there is a power dynamic going on here, the consumers are at the top, Netflix as pimp or enabler is in the middle, and these poor children are at the bottom,” Shaw writes. . . .

We need to press into prayer for the leadership of Netflix. The following people are on the board of Netflix and need our prayers:

Reed Hasting (CEO)

David Hyman

Jessica Neal

Spencer Neumann

Greg Peters

Bozoma Saint John

Ted Sarandos

Rachel Whetstone

Susan Rice

(Excerpt from LifeSite News. Article by Paul Smeaton. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons.)

Comment your prayers  below for these men and women in leadership on Netflix. . .