Just A Little Wrong: “The Innocence of Youth”

Gia Steel, dressed as a doll, stiffens her lip and lets a cigarette be tamped out on her shoe. Riley Reid checks in with herself in the mirror before reporting for duty to an older man. Chastity Lynn submits with affected fear. This movie is just a little creepy.

Fleshbot West visited Disneyland the other day and, I can assure you, those princesses know what they're doing. That is why I reject a title like "The Innocence of Youth" as nothing more than a vaguely dangerous joke. Still, this beautifully shot movie, full of late afternoon sunlight and discordant soap opera music, sets and keeps a mood of O-This-Is-Wrong from beginning to end that "Barely Legal" only hopes to attain.

Directed by Eddie Powell, who can capture performers' strengths (and avoid their weaknesses) expertly, crafts five scenes that are just a little troubling. But they are not Max Hardcore tales of real fear. Instead, we sense that each of the couples has an understanding, whether of the paid or the lifestyle variety.

I liked this movie a lot, but that doesn't mean I feel any better about myself.

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