It’s along the same continuum as groups of adult women being asked “are you alone?” because they don’t have a man with them. It’s all about how a woman (the object) is related to a man.
Innocence means you have not yet become a man’s sexual plaything.
Think about it: how often are men or even boys referred to as “innocent”? Instead, they’re “inexperienced”.
This commercial was featured in the last season of The Americans, as KGB dad Phillip goes through contortions to resist Kremlin orders to seduce a teen whose father has access to strategic secrets.
What? The 70s rape and violence content was much higher in the grindhouse days. The misogynistic flicks still creeps me out more than the gore of the 80s and 90s.
I love terrible movies but I had to stop watching some of the trailers from a Something Weird grindhouse collection, seemed that nearly every one of them had rape in it.
After recently seeing “Kill Bill” for the firdt time, I was mildly interested in seeking out his source material, but the "rape story behind “Lady Snowblood” struck me the wrong way, so I never actually got around to seeing anything more than the trailers… Of course, “Kill Bill” contains the same subtext, so I’m not sure what I was expecting.