• cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12317·
    7 days ago

    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?

    • ickplant@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      631·
      7 days ago

      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:

      !cat@lemmy.world

      !bats@lemmy.world

      !opossums@lemmy.world

      !foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org

    • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      7 days ago

      Thank you, as terrible as it was, to bring this despicable piece of history to light.

      • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
        14·
        7 days ago

        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.

    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
      141·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2417·
        7 days ago

        Dude her mother must have been a grade A piece of shit using her daughter for her own gain like this

      • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        617·
        7 days ago

        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.

    • ChristerMLB@piefed.socialEnglish
      121·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        7 days ago

        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.

        • ChristerMLB@piefed.socialEnglish
          21·
          6 days ago

          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

        • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          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.

    • Aralakh@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      Thank you and please take care of yourself o7. This was revolting to read – made my skin crawl and hairs raise 🤮.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      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.)

      • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        616·
        7 days ago

        I actually tried doing that the first time, but the text was garbled, which is why I ended up doing a manual transcription.

      • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        216·
        6 days ago

        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.

  • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.ukEnglish
    38·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
    79·
    7 days ago

    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???

      • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        7 days ago

        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.

        • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          6 days ago

          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.

          • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            7 days ago

            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.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      14·
      7 days ago

      Don’t ask Danish people about which kind of porn was not only legal, but actively produced in their country up until the '90s…

      • nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        7 days ago

        Don’t ask Americans about the movie starring an underage Brooke Shields where her virginity being auctioned off is a plot point.

    • Bongles@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        8·
        7 days ago

        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.

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        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.

      • GreenShimada@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        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.

    • GreenShimada@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      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.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    52·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • Pika@rekabu.ruEnglish
    45·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • BigTuffAl@lemmy.zipEnglish
    55·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      273·
      7 days ago

      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.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      7 days ago

      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.

  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    46·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    7 days ago

    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.”

  • IWW4@lemmy.zipEnglish
    42·
    7 days ago

    For people who weren’t around in the 70s and 80s trust me the sexism and sexual abuse back then was unreal!

    How Shields was treated was not unusual at all.

      • Jumbie@lemmy.zipEnglish
        201·
        7 days ago

        It was obviously acceptable then. They put it in a magazine to prove the point.

        • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          7 days ago

          Just because people did it, didn’t make it acceptable then nor now. Just because a person murders another person and it happened, doesn’t make it acceptable. There is a bend to history written by the powerful that history absolves because “what was acceptable was different at the time.” This line of thinking is flawed, ethics existed then too. Things like slavery and racism were just as wrong during times of codified ‘legal’ chattel slavery as it is today. It silences those enslaved and the many many people who decried its existence.

          Same applies here.

          Literally what we are fighting against with the Epstein files is precisely this.

          • Jumbie@lemmy.zipEnglish
            22·
            7 days ago

            You speak like you were an adult during that time. Were you outspoken against the incident then or can you remember people showing revulsion like we do towards the Billionaire/Trump-Class Epstein event?