This is more of a question regarding this specific scenario: If, in a film, there is a sex scene that occurs with the characters being an adult and a child, and there are no genitals shown (or breasts for the most part), could a child actor partake in the scene?
shareDepends. If they are shown even under the covers and humping, well have at it but don't try to say it was my idea if some grand-standing DA wants to win his next election by putting you behind bars.
But Dakota Fanning (!) played a character who was raped in the movie Hounddog, and nobody went to jail. But I've been told you only saw her face.
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I could be wrong, but I believe it is illegal to use a child that way in films. Alicia Sylverstone had a body double for her sex scenes in Lolita. The girl from the film Orphan had a body double for her scenes with her "father" when she tries to seduce him, and Jenna Malone from Bastard Out of Carolina had a body double for all her sex scenes with her stepfather in the film. When the children's faces are used, they're usually (I seem to remember hearing in interviews and such about these films) filmed alone with closeups of the cameras on their faces. All body scenes you see are the of-age body doubles being used.
It's why I have always been surprised that a body double wasn't used for Brooke in her nude scenes. But then, I don't remember what the law was back in '78. I was just a baby myself. Today, she would most likely have to have a body-double.
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Between an adult and a child (for the purpose of your question and the varying international conventions on age of consent let's just consider "child" to mean less than 12 years-old)? I am not sure.
However, when both actors are under 18 (or even 16, and in this case at least one is at least superficially under 12) there seems to be precedent - see 1979's The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), among others.
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