Born Innocent

Born Innocent is a biographical account by the Superintendent of the Tecumseh Girls Reform School in Tecumseh, Oklahoma. It is now called the Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center. It used to be called Girls Town and various other names. It is an institution for disturbed teenaged girls. This place was recently in the news because of a violent outbreak similar to that depicted in the movie. The movie is considerably more famous than the book. The movie has caused tremendous outcries and court cases and has resulted in changes in the TV codes and obscenity laws. The most horrific scene in the movie occurs when the 14-year-old protagonist played by famous actress Linda Blair arrives in the reform school for girls and is initiated by a lesbian gang rape in the shower where the handle of a toilet brush is pushed inside her vagina. The public outcry occurred when this scene was shown on prime time TV. It was immediately pulled and has never been shown on TV again, not even on late night TV. Years later it was restored to the DVD version only. Almost everything about this scene pushes the edges of the obscenity laws. The girl being 14 and the real actress was also 14 is on the edges of the law. This movie could probably not be made nowadays. There are now laws against depicting underage children having sexual intercourse. However, she is not really having sexual intercourse. She is merely having a toilet brush handle pushed inside her vagina. It can certainly be argued that having a toilet brush handle pushed inside your vagina does not depict sexual intercourse or indeed sex of any kind. Sorry, guys! You will have to go elsewhere if you want to see a dirty movie. Read more