why would her mother allow her daughter....

Exactly, it's not done in an exploitative way, nor is it sexual. It really is annoying when some people can't think of nudity without labelling it porn. They aren't necessarily one and the same.

Her mother almost died during the making of Pretty Baby. In a 1998 interview with Mike Figgis, Brooke said: "One night, I was actually taken and put into a stairwell, and this one individual said to me You might not see your mother again. She was in a terrible car accident. You have to stay here for a while. And you know, I had trusted this man. I thank God that just prior to that, my welfare worker – this French teacher who was sort of assigned to me – had got a phone call. And I was made aware that the brakes had been cut on my mother’s car. She was coming to get me and the car went out of control, and she was instantly put in jail. She had just a little bump on her head. That morning she had called the Labour Board and said Are kids allowed to work 14-16 hour days? I was eleven, and I wasn’t getting the schooling in. I guess they took it as a big threat, because they were doing something illegally."

Sheilds's mother is still known as one of the worst stage mothers of all time, a grasping, greedy, alcoholic monster, who'd put her child into any horrible situation. Like, if a mainstream movie featuring child/adult sex scenes hadn't come along, she'd have been taking offers from the makers of kiddie porn!

I hope that no body double was used during the making of that film, because that would mean that a *second* parent was pushing a little girl into movie sex scenes.

I couldn't care less.

Her mother pushed her into those roles for the money.