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Wait for the Christel Kahlil jokes to start...

-female to male child sexual abuse

I thought GH Ryan's mother molested him. I believe Henry Lange's mother on ATWT also molested him.

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LOL re: CK. ah, okay, I stand corrected on the others.

And tooth loss was a joke.

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I actually can see some 80s soaps doing that tooth loss story. The radiation fallout that changes Henderson forever...

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Has any soap ever done a story where a mother or father left a baby in the car? And it was stolen or died? I know it's a common cliche on primetime medical/legal shows...but has a soap done it?

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Wait for the Christel Kahlil jokes to start...

LOL

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I actually can see some 80s soaps doing that tooth loss story. The radiation fallout that changes Henderson forever...

On Days, didnt Vivian lose her tooth and Stefano and Rolf replaced it with one that had a microchip implant which they used to control her?

Edited to add: Found it

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Louise Sorel :wub:

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Oh my God, I just got light headeded when he pulled all them wires out her gums. :wacko: Reminded me of when I made the mistake of opening my eyes when they were pulling my wisdom teeth.

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Loving under Doug Marland did the Garth/Lily incest story which ABC ordered to be halted as they were preparing the TV movie Something About Amelia and didn't want anything else on the newtwork to steal the limelight.

I think prostate cancer could make an interesting and informative storyline. Someone like Bo Brady,Bo Buchanan,Charlie Banks or Tad Martin would be good candidates for this story. It is widespread but hardly talked about. It could be good publicity for the soap involved.

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Oh my God, I just got light headeded when he pulled all them wires out her gums. Reminded me of when I made the mistake of opening my eyes when they were pulling my wisdom teeth.

I love how the doc calls it a little chip, yet its this big thing with all those wires. Like could someone not feel that thing in their mouth...lol

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Incest:

Days has come close twice. Marie Horton had the hots for her coworker Mark before he was found to have amnesia and be her brother Tommy. Then Renee and Tony wanted to be a couple but stopped when they found out Renee was Stefano's child. Then they found out Tony wasn't Stefano's child. Then 10 years and a retcon later, Tony is Stefano's child. Unless you count that Tony as Andre based on a later retcon.

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Has any soap ever done a storyline where someone was sold into slavery? Like in the movie "Taken", where the girl was sold into sex slavery? Has any soap ever gone there?

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Has any soap ever done a storyline where someone was sold into slavery? Like in the movie "Taken", where the girl was sold into sex slavery? Has any soap ever gone there?

The way Kristen was written out of Days was she was sent to an island for white slavery

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AMC did an incest story circa 1991 with the character of Ceara (Genie Francis). Other than that, I really can't recall the subject being brought up.

Have other soaps done incest stories?

When Loving debuted, they had an incest story with Lily Slater and her father, Garth, where he doped up his wife so he could molest Lily.

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When Loving debuted, they had an incest story with Lily Slater and her father, Garth, where he doped up his wife so he could molest Lily.

That is so eff'd up. The way you phrased that made me laugh inappropriately though. :ph34r: Shame. They included a clip of that s/l in the CBS 50 Years of Soaps special.

The term "white slavery" also brings about perhaps inappropriate laughter.

I love how the doc calls it a little chip, yet its this big thing with all those wires. Like could someone not feel that thing in their mouth...lol

Exactly! It had like sprouted.

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I love those old TV movies, especially the ones from the 70's and 80's. The ABC movie of the week had a ton of them. Like
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What a painful, unnecessary slide it was. But once these shows seemed to lose their identities, their sense of self, their momentum into the dung heap couldn't be slowed.

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