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????
What's mild here?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
her mom let her do a sexualized fully nude photoshoot when she was 10
We need a "wildly infuriating" community
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.
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