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the little girl in the coppertone ad...
was Jodie Foster, who of course got her big break playing a child prostitute in "Taxi Driver."
Then there's a buck-nekkid 11-year-old Brooke Shields playing a child prostitute in 1917 New Orleans in "Pretty Baby." One particular scene (she is posing for her photographer husband, who has married her to save her from the life) is quite disturbing, because we are forced to see her as the brothel clients see her, which is as simultaneously being both a child and a woman--which of course she is, because she's going through puberty.
I'm sure pedophiles rent both these movies to get their jollies, but neither of them were created for that purpose. And both Jodie Foster and Brooke Shields went on to be pretty successful, well-adjusted adults.