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
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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 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.
Jesus Fucking Christ on a cracker, that’s nauseating to read.
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.
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.
Yeah, the edition I read had a preface that seemed specifically written to prevent those kinds of interpretations. I wonder if it was written by a female relative of Nabokov’s.
It’s well written, but maybe too subtle
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.
The truly fucked up thing is that that book is (very loosely) based on a true story.
You might mean the case of Florence Horner, kidnapped in 1948 by Frank La Salle. It’s apparently directly referenced in ‘Lolita’. However, Wikipedia mentions that Nabokov was already working on ‘Lolita’ in '47, under its original title ‘The Kingdom by the Sea’; and he had similar themes in previous works, going back to a poem and a novella from '28 and '39 respectively.
Importantly, ‘Lolita’ has a few brief allusions to Lewis Carroll, and multiple to Charlie Chaplin’s relationship with Lita Grey.
Fucking groooooooooooossss
Thank you for your service 🫡
What the fuck. That was so much worse than I expected. And I did expect it to be really bad. Feels weird to say thank you for transcribing… this.
This feels like some medieval shit from over a millenium ago
This feels like some medieval shit from over a millenium ago
I don’t think you realize how new a lot of the current situation is. When that article was written, it was still legal for children to perform in commercial pornographic films in parts of the West. A year before this article was written feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir signed a petition against the age of consent (there were a bunch of these in France in the late 70s and most of the French philosophers of the time signed at least one).
It only took a couple of decades for sexualizing children to go from a bit creepy but it happens to the way we see it now.
Thank you and please take care of yourself o7. This was revolting to read – made my skin crawl and hairs raise 🤮.
Jesus fuck.
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.
Apparently this article already made the rounds in 2022. Newsweek was writing about it back then: https://www.newsweek.com/resurfaced-1978-article-sexualizing-brooke-shields-12-sparks-outrage-high-times-1718907
They say “the author, bylined as Ed Dwyer”, which to me sounds as it might’ve been a pseudonym.
Per the linked article:
The article, which was published by High Times in February 1978
Sounds like it probably was the real guy. Ed Dwyer is listed as the founding editor for the High Times.
Nice find on that article.
He’s Trump’s press secretary now.
I’d almost believe it at this point
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.
This is grim, but those of us born in the 80s will remember how absolutely obsessed the media was with Britney Spears becoming “legal” and reporting on her virginity every chance they got.
UK newspapers would frequently publish photos of 16 years old girls with their tits out. That was only made illegal in 2004.
Back during Paedomania of the early 2000s, Brass Eye had an episode taking the piss out of the press’s new found moral crusade, despite them happily being in on it for the better part of 30 years. The press did not like this at all. Unfortunately they didn’t seem to realise they were at fault, which led to the memorable juxtaposition of an article about “perv spoof bosses” on the opposite side of the page from an article about how big 15 year old Charlotte Church’s boobs were getting.
I’d forgotten they did this with Charlotte Church. Christ.
Kirsten Dunst and the Full House kids too
Chris Morris tried to warn us
Member the Olsen twins…gross
I think that was still very much a thing at least a decade after Britney became legal.
Gif reminder that Daenerys is 13 at the start of GoT. But ofc the actress was 24 in s1 so not really anything controversial.
I can’t say for sure that actresses ages were tracked as much but I remember like sites showing countdowns to when Emma Watson became of legal age. I’m the same age roughly so it wasn’t weird for me but it was weird that people did it.
And still do.
They did age up all the ASOIAF characters for the show, so the show insisting that we all ogle Daenerys didn’t really have much to do with pedophilia. It was just regular old gross ass Hollywood misogyny.
it wasn’t much long after brittney, but a radio station had a countdown for natalie portman’s 18th birthday when she was 13
Oh yeah that might be the one I’m remembering. Idk there were so fucking many it’s gross
Y’all… they were doing this to Millie Bobby Brown as recently as 2020.
I actually do not remember that because I actively ignored all popular music, all royal family, all oj simpson, and the rest. I still do. Oh yeah, also actor’s names, I try not to learn them.
Cool, thank you for your valuable insight.
Me too man, me too. Improved the signal to noise ratio in my head.
I’d bet that more-or-less describes a disproportionate amount of Fediverse users.
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???
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
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.
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.
Emma watson as well
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.
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.
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.
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.
Today, it looks like the Brooke Shields situation was normal for the time, but I assure you that it wasn’t. Plenty of people called out the behavior of those around her, and it led to the tighter restrictions on childhood sexual exploitation that we see today. There’s a reason why Brooke Shields is pretty much a solo act - when Hollywood handlers tried to cross boundaries with her, they got slapped down pretty quickly, and nobody really followed.
her mom let her do a sexualized fully nude photoshoot when she was 10
Its my fault for having internet today.
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.
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.
Damn dude, I was ready to call you out on this as I remember the movie when I was a teenager and she looked 17-18. I googled it and you were right, she was 14.
Hopefully they used a body double for the nude scenes.
She farted once on the set of Blue Lagoon
Everybody sharts
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.
Joe Biden and Merrick Garland didn’t just protect Trump from prosecution over the coup, they protected him from prosecution over THIS.
The Epstein files were sealed under court order for the duration of the Biden admin, because they were evidence in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial and her subsequent appeals. Merrick Garland couldn’t touch them.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/why-were-epstein-files-not-released-biden/
Maxwell was indicted on July 20th, 2020, with 5 months left in Trump I. The Epstein files were not released until November 2025 (some, with more in December) 10 months into Trump II, and Congress had to pass a fucking law to get Trump & Co. to do what he campaigned on doing for that to even happen.
Trump owns all this.
Cute. I see y’all downvoting but I don’t see nobody disputing jack shit.
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.
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.
What the fuck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartman_Joins_NAMBLA
I thought it was just a joke when the episode aired
There’s a lot of things South Park have portrayed accurately that I simply didn’t think could be true.
“what scientologists actually belive” is another one.
I thought it was a joke up until… today.
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.
Well that answers my question of how this got past an editor, even in the 70s
Ed Dwyer was still writing for the Saturday Evening Post just a few years ago:
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/author/ed-dwyer/
Among others:
Ed Dwyer has written for Los Angeles Magazine, Variety, and AARP the Magazine, among other national publications.
Someone should subpoena that dude’s search history.
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.”
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.
Gross response and I disagree.
When you’ve spent your whole life surrounded by these freaks, the outrage wanes.
There’s no real yield in being perpetually angry if there’s no outlet for the frustration.
How many times have you been to Esptein Island?
Woody Allen in the photo montage is a big red flag.
Not at the time, though. His proclivities were not widely known 'til he and Farrow split in 1992, when she found out about Soon-Yi.
…Well, you might have had an inkling if you saw Manhattan.
Makes you think America has a pedo problem. What a ridiculous notion.
We have accountability problems too on so many levels. Pedophilia is a good pace to start. As a society we should deal with pedophiles harshly, no matter who they are. A system where the rich are allowed to circumvent the law is our reality, but we should draw the line before pedophilia. If a rich person does what the Epstein abusers did, they should be at the mercy of the accused and their family, even if it means their death. Chain the abuser to a wall and let the abused and their families into the room with a crowbar. Thats simple justice and its long overdue.
The problem with that is false convictions happen. There were hundreds of false convictions for child rape and devil worship in living memory, in the 80s and 90s, the Satanic Panic.
fair call. Lacking a coherent and just justice system, Life in prison (but no beating) will have to be enough I guess.
It wasn’t just America. There was code used with women, girls about whose knee to avoid sitting on etc. Some people realized it was wrong but for the most part, society’s way of dealing was to ignore and pretend it wasn’t happening. And if a girl got pregnant - it was all her fault. The difference was the greater reach of TV, cable, magazines than previous decades which started to undo the secrecy. As much a people hate on Boomers, they were the ones who started saying enough already, there needs to be laws against this if people can’t figure out on their own that it is wrong.
the world does collectively
Not just america but other countries are better at ignoring it or in some cases dealing with it effectively. Some still allow it even if its officially illegal. The current US leaders want this as well.
