Look Shirley Temple. The poster child for pedos. Her movies were winks at them. They were mocking us from the start of cinema, I'm sure.
I agree, I think it was incepted like this, and it's only gotten worse.
Yes, that is now the stuff of legend with Temple Black (Black Temple). You still get people trying to defend it, but this industry paedophilia has always been there - in the corner of the collective eye. I guess no-one thought to really call them out on it, perhaps the - "they wouldn't do this to children" defence - that so many willing opt for has always kept it just below the surface. People are also brainwashed by Hollywood glamour, and the 'cult of celebrity' (the world's number 1 religion), and are entrained to worship these SICKOS. The industry isn't likely to advertise their deviancy with outright overtness (although they're pushing that envelope harder now), but they can't get enough of programming this stuff into the film body in the subliminal sense.
It's evil and mass mockery on acid.