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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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???

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    • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      This is an unhinged paragraph about a 13 year old.

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    • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      It really was the worst of times

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      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        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.

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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    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 white. 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 Shiedls 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 steer 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?

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    • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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 talented 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

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        reaction upon seeing fox news community name:

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      • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Yeah I need a brain cleanse after that.

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    • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Jesus fuck.

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Fucking groooooooooooossss

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  • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    She was used 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.

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    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • mech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        While I agree with your point, she played a child prostitute whose virginity was sold to the highest bidder.

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      • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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      • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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    • PlaidBaron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I dunno. People are actively siding with pedophiles now so Im not sure we changed much.

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    • Nebraska_Huskers@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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  • BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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    • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s even more fucked up when you take the context I to account. This article is making sidelong references to the movie 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.

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  • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We need a “wildly infuriating” community

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    • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Apparently there is the !actually_infuriating@lemmy.world community, I just didn’t know about it.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It’s a 35 year old story.

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      • SacralPlexus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        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.

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  • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

    Source: eviemagazine.com/…/resurfaced-article-from-1978-d…

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    • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Exactly, the depraved and cruel sex acts usually come from sexual repression from religion and lack of education on consent and boundaries due to religious repression.

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      One thing rarely touched on is how her image and movies were used to groom other children for sexual abuse.

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s mild here?

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    • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      !actually_infuriating@lemmy.world

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      • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ah, thank you! That would be a better community. Subscribed.

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    • BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Shockingly infuriating.

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  • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Shirley temple was similarly abused by the movie industry and its disturbing how accepted it was

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    1000003041

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  • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Correction on the in picture caption: she wasn’t 13, she was 12. It says it in the article.

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I was a bit young so I don’t remember well, but wasn’t there a mainstream movie about a girls sports team that was essentially just teen (13+ not 18+) softcore lesbian porn? I think one of the Hemmingway sisters was in it.

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      • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        One was a boomer and one was Matt Dillon who was their age, but yeah it was an insane movie.

        AND IT WAS BILLED AS FAMILY ENTERTIANMENT TOO!!!

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      • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Not exactly of boomer age myself but deducting that you’re younger I think it’s pretty sad that you have this opinion…

        Yeah, teenage girls are interested in sex. Even lesbian sex! Sorry. It’s sad that you think it’s ‘unhygienic’ or whatever that there’s movies about it.

        A few decades later American Pie broke the box office on the same premise. Is that ok because it’s all heterosexual?

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And fwiw, it wasn’t acceptable then nor now.

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      • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        It was completely acceptable then!!!

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  • Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is that a photo of a young Brooke Shields with Woody Allen directly above that horrific description?!

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Of course he’s there out of all people, to snatch her up too like the pedophilic predator he is.

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  • fulcrummed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    #Fucking despicable and disgusting.

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m zooming in to attempt to name and shame the author, but it’s too low rez. Hopefully the sick fuck is dead

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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    • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      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?

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What magazine is this from? Sounds like it’s out of a Hustler or something.

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  • gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What the actual fuck

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is truly twisted.

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  • tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Her expression says [ wow this is fucked up ]

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