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.
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???
Her parents okayed it and exploited her, especially her mom. She was in multiple movies as a child with nude scenes. As in, there were multiple movies with child porn in it released, commercially, in the United States. I genuinely don’t understand how so many people didn’t just come out and say “wooooah, this is child porn.” A few did, but not many. Not that the Epstein Class didn’t exist before, but JFC, to be so blatant…
I’m also always astonished that she didn’t end up on the typical abused child actor track and ended up having a career as an adult.
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.
How about Kid Rock on Saturday Night Live talking about not waiting till the Olsen twins turn 18 literally saying “If there’s grass on the field, play ball!”. If you didn’t know, the Olsen twins were famous for their portrayal of the baby/toddler in Full House as well as a plethora of children’s adventure videos starring them at various super young ages.
This is the same Kid Rock who sang lyrics about child sex in a children’s movie and just headlined the Alt-Right Superbowl not-quite-halftime show.
I haven’t ever watched SNL because that show is better when filtered into secondhand aggregates.
But Kid Rock is a disgusting creep who only has a platform anymore because the GOP can’t get anyone else with a preexisting fanbase who is stupid enough to openly pitch pedophilia to their voters.
He should’ve had a rock through the mouth decades ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o9VSlyrv8c
I hadn’t linked that video this often since…well…ever.
She’s even 12, says in the article
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.
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.
If anything more people would’ve had to okay the article in the '70s because back then people still had to do manual typesetting and layouts, with specialists assigned to those roles, rather than writers being able to put together a finished article on their desktops like today.
I also wasn’t alive, but tons of people okayed this. I don’t understand how her parents not only pushed her to be a model, but found the right people to fight over the legal “right” to keep and distribute photos of a 10-year old that if you saw them today would send you straight to jail. Or get you an appointment as a cabinet secretary, I’m not sure if you’re a millionaire or not.
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.
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.
I remembering having a crush on Hermione. Emma Watson was also older than me, though, and I remember thinking that adults perving on her was gross.
And Millie Bobby Brown …
Before those, Charlotte Church in the UK press.
Emma watson as well
her mom let her do a sexualized fully nude photoshoot when she was 10
Wat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Gross?wprov=sfti1#Brooke_Shields_photograph_controversy
Not only that, but when she wanted those photos to be taken down, US courts ruled that she has no right.
Truly the best democracy in the world.
Its my fault for having internet today.
That is truly twisted.
Im sure the writer came manytimes…
If you are not familiar with Brooke’s story… I’m sorry for ruining you day.
Shields, now 59, has been vocal about her experiences, including her infamous appearance in Playboy at age 10 and her role when she was a minor in The Blue Lagoon, a film that featured her and her co-star in numerous nude scenes.
Horrid.
On a similarly infuriating note, the article states, “One user on X, @dvorstone, captured the public’s shock and dismay . . . They wrote, ‘I don’t think this country has, or even will, come to terms with the sexual corruption of the boomers. From the swinging to divorce to homosexuality, drag/transvestites, and pedophilia, they mainstreamed virtually every sexual degeneracy that has metastasized everywhere in our culture . . .”
None of those words belong with pedophilia in that sentence. Breezing by a careless association like that it is why we are in a horrid place right now. This is the sexual corruption of the boomers still at play. Fuck that guy.
A more suitable word would have been “conservative” or “religion,” since those are the key corrupters of civilized society in realtime.
Exactly, the depraved and cruel sex acts (such as rape of children) usually come from sexual repression from religion and lack of education on consent and boundaries due to religious repression.
It does not come from healthy adults exploring with other healthy adults in a consensual environment with healthy boundaries. That comes from sexual education and freedom.
EDIT: What’s even more infuriating is the first sentence of that statement is still correct when it comes to rampant child abuse: “I don’t think this country has, or even will, come to terms with the sexual corruption of the boomers.” The whole statement is real “they had us in the first half” material.
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One thing rarely touched on is how her image and movies were used to groom other children for sexual abuse back then. I know a few people, including myself, that were abused to The Blue Lagoon.
I remember she was nude in Blue Lagoon and she was 14 or 15 at the time. It was a scandal.
Also, Woody Allen? Guess everyone knew he was a creep all the way back then.
I’m zooming in to attempt to name and shame the author, but it’s too low rez. Hopefully the sick fuck is dead
Ed Dwyer. Seems he’s still alive as I cannot find an article about his death but found several regarding his positions at various publications.
Here dude… against better judgement I transcribed the whole fucking thing.
Also the author is Ed Dwyer, which through looking up his name, there was an Ed Dwyer alive and writing the same time period who is responsible for creating the High Times? So possibly the same one?
What magazine is this from? Sounds like it’s out of a Hustler or something.
…mildly?
I just didn’t know about the existence of !actually_infuriating@lemmy.world otherwise I’d post it there.
What’s mild here?
Shockingly infuriating.
Her expression says [ wow this is fucked up ]
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.”
Who wrote this, and who was the editor? Tell me they don’t still have jobs.
Haha the guy that wrote that is now a boss somewhere
