Netflix premiers the cartoon series Big Mouth that centers around middle school children entering into puberty. The show is saturated with vulgar language, sexual perversion involving children, extreme sexual conduct, and is inherently attractive to young viewers. For being very harmful to children, we urge Netflix to remove this show from their viewing catalog immediately.
Some examples of sexual perversion involving children and extreme sexual conduct include-
● In the beginning five minutes of the season’s first episode, viewers get an up-close picture of a thirteen-year-old boy’s genitalia.
● A young girl having a conversation with her genitalia.
● A scene showing an adult’s penis.
● An adult monster who shouts, “hold him [the boy] down and jam it [penis] in his mouth!”
● A boy ejaculating while dancing with a young girl at a school dance.
These are just a few examples of many disturbing scenes. This show is inherently attractive to young viewers. According to University of Washington Harborview Medical Center, “ It is not unusual for grade school children to become increasingly curious about adult sexual behavior. By age 10, many children are showing the first signs of puberty, and their interest in what this means increases…” The shows animation style compares to popular television shows among kids like Family Guy or American Dad!. Shows on Netflix, no matter the content, can also be easily accessible to children. Parents can enable parental controls, but only to the extent of barring access to material by a four-digit passcode. Netflix also advertises this show on their screensaver that appears when Netflix is left idle on a “smart” device. Netflix counted more than 100 million subscribers who stream one billion hours of content a week.
Eddie Capparucci, who is a Clinical Expert/Contributor for the National Decency Coalition said concerning Big Mouth, “This program is giving kids sexual messages that are inappropriate and, in some cases, if acted upon, would be considered illegal.” Tiffany Leeper, Founder of Girls Against Porn & Human Trafficking, in regards to Big Mouth, stated, “For an adult to even watch the explicit content on this show is difficult – it cannot be disputed that content on the episodes is often really soft-core porn…”