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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.
It's even more fucked up when you take the context I to 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.
She was abused 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.
I dunno. People are actively siding with pedophiles now so Im not sure we changed much.
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.
While I agree with your point, she played a child prostitute whose virginity was sold to the highest bidder.
Yes, and it's literally based on a true story that has happened a hundred times over and the film portrays this as a horrible thing.
Like the story is repellent and horrible because it is supposed to be. This is like a criticism of Schindler's List because it portrays a genocide.
It's funny because there is plenty of horrifying and deliberately salacious shit that they did with Shields that would merit more criticism. How about her fully nude appearance in Playboy at ten?
I can't imagine volunteering my child to take that role personally. They don't have the maturity to understand the subject matter
Her mom was a horrible person.
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.
I'm from Poland and didn't think about it until I found that in the first part of The Witcher games, the game that is directed to adults, they had to develop a special versions for the USA. The version included full violence with decapitations and gore, but showing a woman's nipple was too far so they had to censor it.
No you're right, and part of the problem in the US is our absolutely batshit, contradictory social conditioning around sex, nudity and the body.
We are utterly archaic in social attitudes here. We had a full-on national crisis when everyone saw a nipple at the super-bowl one time. Yet we sexualize anything remotely female and young to a sickening degree.
This kind of weird paradoxical attitude designed to make you feel shame and desire together has completely ruined any chance of healthy attitudes around sex for millions of young boys who grew up in this media landscape, and had no idea how to deal with it and fell down the incel pipeline, and millions of young girls who only see a world of predation and those angry incels and want nothing to do with dating or boys, driving the wedge further and further.
This utterly baffling societal attitude has empowered people like Epstein and his affiliates since way back, and made it a lot easier for people to commit sex crimes, particularly against children. 🙈 🙉 🙊
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
What's mild here?
Shockingly infuriating.
Correction on the in picture caption: she wasn't 13, she was 12. It says it in the article.
Thank god she wasn't a teenager.
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.
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.
Is that a photo of a young Brooke Shields with Woody Allen directly above that horrific description?!
Of course he's there out of all people, to snatch her up too like the pedophilic predator he is.
That is truly twisted.
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.
And fwiw, it wasn't acceptable then nor now.
It was obviously acceptable then. They put it in a magazine to prove the point.
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.
EDIT: I think I am jamming two movies together. One is Personal Best (1982) with Mariel Hemingway. I still can't remember the name of the young teen girls one but I do now remember that the plot was that these young girls were trying to lose their virginity. Fucking boomers. Seriously.
EDIT 2:
Found it. The second movie was Little Darlings about girls at camp.
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.
What the actual fuck
Her expression says [ wow this is fucked up ]
What magazine is this from? Sounds like it's out of a Hustler or something.