Gay days and hidden sexual messages in movies. Is Disney really a wholesome company?

I've read about Disney's support of Gay days at their theme parks and the hidden sexual messages in their movies.
Exactly what is this so called wholesome, family, kids, company trying to spread?
My own teenager brought up this topic to me and could name off every movie that had a hidden sexual clip?

Lets first examine the very popular Aladdin.



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In the identification of the hidden messages in Disney movies, we will begin with Aladdin. In the scene where Aladdin and Jasmine are to take a magic carpet ride, Aladdin calls on Jasmine to come with him, and continues to speak under his breath “teenagers take off your clothes” (DeMarco, 2000). What is actually going on with the soundtrack at this point in the film is difficult to determine. Disney claims that the script calls for Aladdin to say, "C'mon . . . good kitty. Take off and go," while the closed captioning has him uttering, "Good kitty. Take off" (DeMarco, 2000). This is a prime example of a verbal hidden message. This type of hidden message is in most cases unavoidable because it is verbal; if the viewer is paying close attention, the message can be heard. Not only is the message offensive but very disengaging as well. Encouragement of this action to children or teenagers alike is very severe. The original rumor "take off your clothes" started soon after Aladdin was released on home video in 1993 (DeMarco, 2000). A garbled and whispered portion of dialogue that could barely be heard in the theater was being replayed over and over in millions of homes but was difficult to distinguish. Soon after, someone came up with a salacious phrase that sounded somewhat like the original portions of dialogue, and the power of suggestion took over. People began to hear what they were being told they should hear.


The next movie in question was a movie I watched time and again with my child. Oh if I had only known.


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The Lion King Uncensored
By: Brett Pilkington and Steve Raszka
The next mentionable movie is The Lion King, in this specific movie there are a couple different aspects in which hidden sexual messages can be found. The segment in question in occurs about midway through the movie when Simba, the hero, plops down and a cloud of dust rises above him. As the dust begins to trail off, it forms the letters S-E-X, with each letter fading as the next becomes clear (Mikkelson, 1996). In this next part, Simba is talking to his father in the night sky where stars can be seen. Upon connecting these stars, a penis is formed (Mikkelson, 1996). These messages can be identified as indirect hidden messages, which mean the viewer was not directly intended to see the message, unless possibly looking for such material. The hidden sexual messages are examples of how the creators of these movies know that sex in movies boosts the sales. This is a terrible thing for movie executives to do, especially Disney, where the majority of the audience is young children who do not need to see these disturbing gestures. The anti-abortion group, based in Stafford, Va., wants the Walt Disney Co. to remove The Lion King from video stores (Giroux, 2000). One video store clerk was alerted of the appearance of the word, by a woman who said her 4-year-old son noticed it (Mikkelson, 1996). Michael Rhoades, who commented for Disney stated the scene simply shows ``swirling dust in the night sky, seeing anything in The Lion King other than a good wholesome family film is purely perception,'' he said (Studio History, 1998 ).

Who can forget the Little Mermaid, what a sweet movie and large PENIS?



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The Little Mermaid
By: Sara Roberts
The Little Mermaid also makes the list for including hidden sexual essages. Not only were these derogatory ages found in the movie, but on the romotional posters, and the original movie ver as well. Of these images, includes a phallus-shaped tower in the castle on the promotional posters for the movie. The artist has claimed that this was the result of rushed background detailing (Copeland, D, 2003). Another image is that of the bishop having an erection in the wedding scene. The bishop is dressed in a white tunic and white tights, and in some scenes it is difficult to differentiate between the tights and the tunic. The mysterious bulge is actually the bishop’s knee, but the resemblance of an erection is still there (Lav, 2002). There are also other derogatory images featured on promotional posters, but they are supposedly so distasteful that every source failed to mention them (Copeland, J, 1996).

Of course there's the classic, The Rescuers and their flashing of a bear breasted woman, why?


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The Rescuers
By: Mike Porowski
In January of 1999, Disney announced a recall of the home video version of their 1977 animated feature The Rescuers because it contained a "questionable background image" (LA Daily News, 1999). Just at the start of the film, as rodent heroes Bianca and Bernard fly through the city in a sardine box strapped to the back of Orville, proprietor of Albatross Air Charter Service, the photographic image of a topless woman can be seen at the window of a building in the background in two different (non-consecutive) frames: first in the bottom left corner, then at the top center portion of the frame (Davies, 2). Unlike most rumors of risqué word-images hidden in Disney's animated films, this one is clearly true, and the images in question were undeniably inserted into the movie on purpose (Solomon, 1988).
The two "topless woman" frames have reputedly been present in the film ever since its original 1977 theatrical release (a fact apparently confirmed by Disney, whose spokesperson said that the tampering "was done more than 20 years ago"), although Disney claims that they were not included in the 1992 home video version because "it was made from a different print" (Studio History, 1998). Disney also claimed that the images were not placed in the film by any of their animators, but were inserted during the post-production process. The company decided to recall 3.4 million copies of the video "to keep our promise to families that we can trust and rely on the Disney brand to provide the finest in family entertainment” (Studio History, 1998).
Disney's announcement of this recall might be considered a bit curious. Unlike previous rumors over "hidden" items in Disney's animated films, this one was not widespread until Disney itself made a public statement about it (Business Wire, 1999). As well as the other Disney Movies in question, the Rescuers frames are not noticeable during a normal viewing of the film, one has to know they're there and freeze-frame the video to view them (Howell, 1999).



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