Because 70’s were WILD for that shit.
Should I remind you that street marches were held in the name of “adult-child love”? That NAMBLA, a North-American Man-Boy Love Association (you can’t make this shit up) tried to meddle with LGBTQ+ to get included? That songs were written about teenage girls being taught “adult love”?
If anything, the article is characteristic of the time.
Fucking gross child rapist shit.
She played the role of a prostitute in a movie and instead of the article being like “whoa this movie is pretty heavy - trigger warning” it’s all “damn she’s hot.”
I did some research (more than I should for this ancient trite) and this comes from February 1978 issue of High Times magazine. A fucking stoner magazine! What the hell was the writer of some second-rate publication for grass and shrooms doing writing a lust piece about an up-and-coming child actress? What kind of grass would make you want to fuck a child?
Hold on, it gets worse. According to Wikipedia, the article’s writer, Ed Dwyer, was the magazine’s founding editor. Imagine working at that magazine’s office and reading your boss’s 1970s equivalent of a horny post.
This isn’t just sexualising children, this is sexual abuse of people. Nobody should be sexualised without their consent. It is a disgrace that this ever hapened to her; however, this thing is still happening around the world regardless of age.
The industries thrive on non consentual manipulation of people. Adults, teens and even children are driven deep into the trap that is abuse.
Her torrid freshness became an underground legend among the talent set. Producers literally held their breaths, waiting for the remarkable Brooke Shields to reach a reasonable age of fuckability, not yet legal, but oh, so sweet. Welcome to the end of innocence, Brookie.
Multiple people had to okay that. How? HOW???
Multiple people had to okay that.
Did they though? Back in the 70s? I wasn’t alive so this is a real question, but "Okay"ing things before publishing feels more recent than that. Especially in something like high times.
According to someone else in this thread it was written by the founder and owner, as well. You can still publish weird predatory shit about a tween now, although you’d probably try to stay anonymous.
This is an unhinged paragraph about a 13 year old.
Producers literally held their breaths, waiting for the remarkable [anyone] to reach a reasonable age of fuckability, not yet legal, but oh, so sweet.
Is a criminal thing to say about anyone at any age.
Even saying that about an adult is suspect.
It really was the worst of times
Oh this shit is still going on. There were people in the late 90s early 00s that were counting down the days when the Olsen twins would turn 18.
Would not surprise me one bit if there are websites dedicated other child celebrities.
And following them … Emma Watson all throughout the Harry Potter series.
And Millie Bobby Brown …
Before those, Charlotte Church in the UK press.
Don’t ask Danish people about which kind of porn was not only legal, but actively produced in their country up until the '90s…
Don’t ask Americans about the movie starring an underage Brooke Shields where her virginity being auctioned off is a plot point.
Remember the trump child beauty pageants?
What the actual fuck. This article is repulsive. The line just under her cover page picture is fucked up, the whole article is fucked up. I hate to even have this shit attached to my profile, but I’m going to transcribe this shitty article to be best ability so ya’ll can read this shit for yourselves.
Cover Page
Culture Hera Brooke Shields Million-dollar jailbait: She must have been a beautiful baby because today she’s America’s most famous 12-year-old hooker. by Ed Dwyer
Article
The most perfect nymphette in all creation has been found - in America. Her name is Brooks Shields. Brooke’s hair is elegant brown and clean, her skin pale and puritan, her eyes sinfully blue and her lean body just starting to curve into womanhood. She’s a sultry mix of all-American virgin and nascent whore. She’s the hottest new young thing in movies since a smoldering preteen named ElizabethTaylor stiffened up Louie Mayer’s cigar. She is only 12 years old and destined to be the sex symbol of 1984. In Louise Malle’s steamy Pretty Baby, Brooke is Violet, a baby prostitute raise to the chicken trade by her hooker mother (Susan Sarandon). The Frenchman’s film centers on the bordello in the old Storyville district of New Orleans, where Violet lives. The year is 1967, and smack in the middle of that red-light area, bubblin’ with sin, smoke and jazz, crows and female child raise on a diet of cock money. Patrician Brooke is devastating as a little lady who fucks and sucks for bucks. She eases like a vegan through moods that alternate between vulnerable, hot, angelic, mocking and sinful. She seduces both Keith Carradine and the camera in erotic scenes guaranteed to remain sensational for years. Brooke took to Violet’s story like a white takes to champagne. What’s more, is is intoxicating to watch.
Brooke Shields is a sultry mix of all-American virgin and whore.
Brooke’s looks have been her business all her young life. Extraordinarily beautiful even as an infant, Brooke was immediately steered by her mother, ex-model Terri Shields, into a modeling career. Her huge portfolio includes stints as the Ivory baby, a Breck girl, a Colgate kid, plus scads of cover-girl appearances in both women’s and family magazines. She’s been playing the prepubescent vamp since she was eight. At that tender age, she dropped her Garters(?) for a photographer and posed nude. Later she camped it up suggestively in full Victorian bimbo rig - garter belt, silk stockings, high heels. Brooke became a favorite subject for premier photographers like Avedon and Scavullo. By day she was the face that sold, at night she was the princess of wet dreams. Her torrid freshness became an underground legend among the talent set. Producers literally held their breaths, waiting for the remarkable Brooke Sheilds to reach a reasonable age of fuckability, not yet legal but oh so sweet. Welcome to the end of innocence Brookie. Now with Pretty Baby done, Brooke is being flooded with movie proposals. So far, she’s been inked to play the teenage Lucretia Borgia in an upcoming period thriller. And she is slated to star as the tormented young murderess in Alfred Sole’s Communion. By law she’s not permitted to expose her endearing young charms in a magazine until she’s 18. Nevertheless, Brooke recently posed starkers for a lavish Penthouse pictorial spread. Brooke is the first serious actress to violate the preteen sex taboo. Unlike pugnacious Jodie Foster or puerile Tatum O’Neal, she’s the delicious stuff of teenage fantasies become flesh; barely old enough to want, but too young to get. A sweet bird of youth, she comes armed with a sultry self-possession that alarms the sexually insecure adult. A mere prediction of a woman, she stirs erotic passions often better left unsatisfied. She’s a sweet temptation to all but blind men and eunuchs. She’s sister, daughter, sex object, victim, lover, tramp. We can look forward to watching her fill out over the next decade. Brooke Shields is not use another pretty baby; baby.
Hooooly shiiitt. You have NO IDEA how many times I just about threw this whole transcription away and said nope, fuck no. JFC. The ONLY reason I’m leaving this repulsive trash up here is so ya’ll can read how truly fucked up this author is. What the fuck became of this guy? Is he in jail? Looks like maybe this is the guy responsible for the creation of the High Times magazine?
Thank you and please take care of yourself o7. This was revolting to read – made my skin crawl and hairs raise 🤮.
PSA: if you use Google to search by an image, it lets you select and copy the text. On Android it can be done by sharing to ‘Lens’, or going through the Google app. (Idk about iPhones.)
I actually tried doing that the first time, but the text was garbled, which is why I ended up doing a manual transcription.
Ah, I’ve missed the fact that the image is pretty low-res. My condolences for reading that blurry mess.
I managed to get a few chapters into “Lolita” before I decided to put it down. It’s well written, but so very creepy. This text is like it’s written by the main character – maybe even a more honest version of him.
It’s very clear that Nabokov despised and mocked most of his protagonists, with only a couple exceptions. Humbert is a loser with nothing interesting about him.
Still some people somehow manage to interpret the book as a ‘defense’ of Humbert of sorts, or a fantasy. Seen this on Reddit.
Lolita is meant to be disturbing. A horror story told from the perspective of a very unreliable narrator. Intellectually, I appreciate it, but I too could not get through it.
Jesus Fucking Christ on a cracker, that’s nauseating to read.
Thank you for doing that, truly. It’s important to see just how freely pedophiles would do this shit if society lets them. So fucked.
Please go take good care of yourself after transcribing this. This is the kind of stuff that affects mental health even in the strongest people.
For anyone who needs a palate cleanser after reading the article:
reaction upon seeing fox news community name:
reaction upon clicking on it:
It’s the only kind of “Fox News” allowed in the fediverse.
It’s also fun to find items to post to it, but a little tricky to search for them while filtering out Fox Bullshit
May I introduce you to: https://findafox.net/post/list
Thank you and they’re so sweet! But I’m specifically focusing on fox news stories (preferably not the depressing ones) for that instance. Just trying to look every few days.
Best of luck to you! It does indeed suck having to sift through Faux News to get fox news.
Yeah I need a brain cleanse after that.
Thank you, as terrible as it was, to bring this despicable piece of history to light.
Those times were horrible.
It makes me think about the Italian movie from the '80s called “Maladolescenza”, which is now considered child porn by many countries, thus illegal.
Its writer and director just kept working for the Italian national television for many many years after that movie, up until the 2010’s if I recall correctly.
I also saw a newspaper from the time in which they were interviewing people that came out of the movie theater, asking them what they thought of the movie. It was almost as disgusting as this article.
I think that is ”nascent whore” in the first paragraph. Probably where the pull quote in the middle of the page is from. Also “whore takes to champagne.
“Shie ld s” in the pull quote
“Steer ed by her mother”
That’s it, I quit. 🤮 I don’t know how you did the whole thing.
Dude her mother must have been a grade A piece of shit using her daughter for her own gain like this
Oh thanks, I missed those spelling mistakes. Was doing this on my iPad so I didn’t catch what autocorrect messed up, and tbh I didn’t really feel like proofreading it.
Jesus fuck.
Fucking groooooooooooossss
Had the exact same thoght. I wanna throw up.
This picture says it all. Poor child.
Kinda like this rich pedo culture only went into hiding recently, never died, and never lost influence among the money cult. I think I am going to learn more about pyrotechnics.
Every single religious and political and business leader of significance in the US either pedo’d with Epstein or covered up for him.
Joe Biden and Merrick Garland didn’t just protect Trump from prosecution over the coup, they protected him from prosecution over THIS.
The two of them sat on Epstein every day for four years.
This evil is systemic to the point that it has taken over in the US.
It didn’t go into hiding at all. None of the associates in the Epstein files seem to suffer any real consequences. They’re all still doing sex parties at St. Barts on their oversized yachts full of teenage girls or snorting lines of coke at Miami Freak Parties hosted by CIA-connected cartel guys and their real estate magnet friends.
I think I am going to learn more about pyrotechnics.
Just fly a birthday balloon near a Texas airport and you can set off the worst disruption since 9/11.
We need a “wildly infuriating” community
Apparently there is the !actually_infuriating@lemmy.world community, I just didn’t know about it.
It’s a 45 year old story. Woody Allen in the photo montage is a big red flag. But I wouldn’t exactly call this breaking news. Brooke Shields had been out about her atrocious treatment even before #MeToo.
It’s not breaking news but it is a really interesting snapshot in time showing how not only were these behaviors occurring, it was at times very publicly normalized. Comparing a 13 year old actress to a “nascent whore” is staggering.
The Olsen’s Twins 18 Count Down websites were a thing.
Not just random websites any creep could make, but something mainstream TV talked about too.
More obscure, but Greg Kelly complimenting an underaged worker for her bathing suit. He would later be fired. He’s on Newsmax now.
On April 4, 2007, shock jock Don Imus referred to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy headed ho’s” following their Cinderella Story NCAA playoff run that left them the number 2 women’s team in the nation
It’s how these fuckers talk about everyone.
Still infuriating, I’m not sure why you made this comment.
Not wildly.
How many times have you been to Esptein Island?
Gross response and I disagree.
It’s even more fucked up when you take the context into account. This article is making sidelong references to the movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Baby_(1978_film) which was based on a true story of child rape and exploitation. So this “article” takes that context and I guess sides with the monsters? fucking hell.
She was abused for nude modelling and movie roles that sexualized her, including fully nude sex scenes, from age 11 on.
The movies were shown in theatres and on TV. Mainstream magazines published the pictures.
Fucked up times.Nude scenes/nudity is not a problem. Nudity is completely natural and should be normalised. The problem is in sexualising children, whether they’re nude or not.
It’s important to not conflate the two to avoid reinforcing puritanical views around nudity.
While I agree with your point, she played a child prostitute whose virginity was sold to the highest bidder.
Yes, and it’s literally based on a true story that has happened a hundred times over and the film portrays this as a horrible thing.
Like the story is repellent and horrible because it is supposed to be. This is like a criticism of Schindler’s List because it portrays a genocide.
It’s funny because there is plenty of horrifying and deliberately salacious shit that they did with Shields that would merit more criticism. How about her fully nude appearance in Playboy at ten?
This is like a criticism of Schindler’s List because it portrays a genocide.
It’s like criticizing an article about Schindler’s List with the bolded caption “Find out how many kikes can fit in an oven”.
It’s funny because there is plenty of horrifying and deliberately salacious shit that they did with Shields that would merit more criticism.
The quote directly below a photo of her and Woody Allen is more than I needed to see, thanks.
I can’t imagine volunteering my child to take that role personally. They don’t have the maturity to understand the subject matter
Her mom was a horrible person.
Clearly
The biggest thing I learned from living in Italy for two years and then marrying a Korean woman a few years after that is that Americans have fucked up views on sexuality and nudity. I came from a pretty liberal secular hippie type family and I was surprised to find I had some residual cultural hang ups just from growing up in the US.
German-American here. I had a stint with organized religion and American purity culture. The church and “purity culture” messed me up pretty good, most notably in the 5 years after my deconversion. Americans love judging people for sex, then cheerfully do all the same things secretly themselves without an ounce of self-awareness. I still can’t decide if I have an irrationally strong fear of STDs brought about by American sex-ed, or of it’s a rational response to the fact that everyone is going around fucking without protection, many without a basic anotomical understanding of their own body. I wish we could get people to take safety seriously because we’re all connected in a giant fucking web.
What stood out the most to you about Americans sexual hang-ups?
I’m from Poland and didn’t think about it until I found that in the first part of The Witcher games, the game that is directed to adults, they had to develop a special versions for the USA. The version included full violence with decapitations and gore, but showing a woman’s nipple was too far so they had to censor it.
No you’re right, and part of the problem in the US is our absolutely batshit, contradictory social conditioning around sex, nudity and the body.
We are utterly archaic in social attitudes here. We had a full-on national crisis when everyone saw a nipple at the super-bowl one time. Yet we sexualize anything remotely female and young to a sickening degree.
This kind of weird paradoxical attitude designed to make you feel shame and desire together has completely ruined any chance of healthy attitudes around sex for millions of young boys who grew up in this media landscape, and had no idea how to deal with it and fell down the incel pipeline, and millions of young girls who only see a world of predation and those angry incels and want nothing to do with dating or boys, driving the wedge further and further, a whole generation of people hating and fearing each other grew up and are now running the entire country.
This utterly baffling societal attitude has empowered people like Epstein and his affiliates since way back, and made it a lot easier for people to commit sex crimes, particularly against children. 🙈 🙉 🙊
I’m very body positive and pro nudity for an American who grew up Catholic, but moving to Germany unleashed similar hangups for me.
Fun story: the first time I used the communal shower at the pool naked (like everyone else here), a child pointed at my nipple piercing and loudly asked “mommy, what’s that on her nipple,” so everyone turned to stare at my tits. I was doubly overwhelmed, because it was the first time I’d heard the vernacular term for a nipple in German: “Brustwarze,” which literally translates to “breast wart,” which is fucking horrendous.
If it weren’t for the fact that I remember that every time I encounter the word “Brustwarze,” I think I’d have blocked it out.
“Brustwarze,” which literally translates to “breast wart,”
And it’s little things like that which cause German to be known as the language of love.
nipple in German: “Brustwarze,” which literally translates to “breast wart,” which is fucking horrendous.
Not as funny as handschuh (hand shoe, German for glove)
I would argue that while nudity at home should not be an issue, the nature of the film industry means that even if the nudity is presented in a naturalistic fashion, the fact it is on film makes it exploitative.
Imagine being 10-12 years old, naked, and surrounded by adults (mostly men,) some of whom are more or less ordering you around. I can’t imagine a way to make that anything other than deeply distressing for a child.
It’s also possible to safely take Adderall. The problem is when people who shouldn’t have it get ahold of it. And that’s why it’s restricted.
I dunno. People are actively siding with pedophiles now so Im not sure we changed much.
As a teen I remember seeing blue lagoon on cinemax. Now that I’m in my mid 40s I realize blue lagoon is literal child porn
Pretty Baby is a 1978 film where she portrays a child prostitute. There’s a scene where her virginity is auctioned off and a main plot point is that a grown man falls in love with her and wants to marry her. I watched it as a young teen (~12) and I was horrified.
To be clear, the film treats this as the atrocity that it is and is based on a true story.
You probably wouldn’t describe this relationship as “falling in love” if you saw it as an adult. Nothing about this relationship is portrayed as healthy.
…mildly?
I just didn’t know about the existence of !actually_infuriating@lemmy.world otherwise I’d post it there.
