Swapped in Secret

The stories lack credibility (what else is new?) in this pair of Pure Taboo segments on a DVD.

For the title scene: Some story ideas, perhaps thrown around at a Writers Room, are best left crumpled up and thrown into the wastebasket. But the policy at Pure Taboo is clearly "waste not, want not", so this Penicio Del Toro screenplay was actually shot and released, despite its obvious shortcomings.

Seth Gamble arrives home, shouting out for his wife Nancy and daughter Mara. Instead, he's greeted by cutie Tracy (ever-young looking Jane Wilde (at 25 still a believable teen character) claiming to be his daughter, as amplified by mom Nancy (Charlie Forde).

This seeming bit of gaslighting is quickly resolved: Forde tells him she's discovered his affection for stepdaughter porn via his computer, so she simply traded his real-life offspring Mara for Tracy, whose family dug the switch. Seth can't contact his real daughter and boy, is he angry.

But not angry enough to storm out of the house -instead he flees to his bedroom, and the women decide to try very hard to get him to agree to the kinky role-playing they have in mind.

This nonsensical premise seems dead in the water, but directors Siouxsie Q and Michael Vegas go full steam ahead: Jane has little trouble seducing "daddy" and soon Charlie joins them for a threesome, all of them enjoying it immensely.

For "Earning Her Badges", cute Lexi Lore, in her "Preparedness Scout" uniform, is taken by her den mother Katrina Colt to meet the district commissioner (Nathan Bronson) as another step in he cadet training. Almost immediately, he touches her inappropriately, and little Lexi flees to Katrina to tell her of the incident.

But instead of reporting this to the authorities, Katrina escorts Lexi back to talk it over with Bronson. The adults indicate that this is not a problem but rather an opportunity for the teen to grow as a woman and explore boldly new adventures including sex, dangling the promise of Lexi becoming a troop leader as a result. Being a virgin, Lexi is understandably reluctant to take this step, but Katrina offers to help guide her through the experience, resulting in a three-way.

This explicit case of grooming, cashing in on the many scandals with so many institutions (including scouting) is in poor taste, but I suppose that's the whole point of Pure Taboo. For the real-life importance of having a female groomer in on the crime, one needs no look further than the Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell case, perhaps an inspiration for Penicio Del Toro's insidious script.