SLUT: A PLAY | NYC Teens (Re)Claim Slut Title

Playwright Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerney wrote in Slut: A Play and Guidebook for Combating Sexism and Sexual Violence, which was published by the Feminist Press at The City College of New York, that during the sessions to develop the play at The Arts Effect All-Girl Theater Company in New York City, the word slut kept coming out of the mouths of the twenty East Coast high school students. For example:

“I feel like a slut.”

“I was dressed all slutty.”

“Haha. Oh my [G]od, you’re a dirty little slut!”

Consequently, Cappiello and McInerney came to the conclusion that teens across the United States were reclaiming the title of slut, because being a slut meant that a girl is “fuckable”. Cappiello and McInerney wrote:

“There’s an attempt being made by girls and young women across the country to reclaim the word. Being a “slut” means you’re sexy, fun, experimental, willing, popular, wanted, “fuckable” [...]”

SLUT: A PLAY | PREGAMING

However, the play isn’t only about slut praising, it’s about slut shaming as well. As for slut praising, Jennifer Baumgardner described the PROLOGUE: PREGAMING of the play well:

The play opens with five girls [in spandex shorts and sports bras] dancing around in a locker room—teasing, frank, sweet, hilarious—and having fun as well as playing with their burgeoning sexuality.

Dancing is an understatement, because, in addition to twerking on stage, the teen girls were playing with their burgeoning sexuality by simulating girl-on-girl oral sex and all-girl threesome sex.

After Christina asked, “Okay, what’s everyone wearing to Connor’s?” Grace asked if she should wear tights. “The ones with the seam up the back so they still look really cute.” Natalie replied by sharing that Grace performed a teen “drunken striptease last weekend”; therefore, Natalie predicted that Grace would strip out of her tights at Connor’s party.

In a bit of “routine banter for these girls”, Grace went on to call Natalie the “biggest … dirtiest … sluttiest slut of, like, all time.”

JOEY (Winnifred Bonjean Alpart ). Okay, no way is she the biggest slut of the Slut Squad! I can slut it up with the sluttiest of y’all, thank you very much! Including Natalie.

CHRISTINA. Hey!

NATALIE. Ohhhh Chrissy! You know we respect your sexy slutness. (NATALIE digs though [sic] her makeup bag.)

CHRISTINA. You better. And don’t make me challenge you to a slut-off.

NATALIE. Yep. And you don’t mess with Slut Squad girls. Because we will take you down, motherfucker.

CHRISTINA. Awww, Slut Squad love!

GRACE. Slut Squad crazy love!

The Slut Squad of the Elliot Dance Team even had a chant slash team anthem.

S-L-U-T S-Q-U-A-D!

[...]

YES, THAT’S WHO WE BE.

AND, BITCHES, WE GO DOWN LIKE NO OTHER

GIRLS IN TOWN. AND WHEN WE STRUT

THROUGH THE SCHOOL

YOU KNOW WE MAKE THEM BOYS DROOL.

BECAUSE THEY ALL WANNA PIECE OF THIS.

AND YOU KNOW YOU CAN’T SLUT LIKE THIS.

[...]

In reference to the chant/anthem, the parenthetical states: ([...] It’s goofy and fun, but they kind of mean it …) Kind of?

Joey elaborated by relating that slut is a positive attribute, because, like boys, it should be “totally cool” for girls to be able to “hook up with whoever they want”. Joey said that the Slut Squad isn’t “afraid to be sexual”, and proclaimed that the Slut Squad members are confident and sexy.

JOEY. When I think of what our idea of “slut” [...] and I know it sounds stupid now but... it’s positive. We think it’s wrong that guys can hook up with whoever they want and that’s totally cool, but girls can’t. It’s an unfair double standard. So we're like, “Hey, if we act confident about sex and...”

NATALIE. (To DANIELLE.) We own our shit.

JOEY. And we aren’t afraid to be sexual. If all that makes us sluts, then I guess we’re sluts. So, Slut Squad just means we’re confident and, you know, sexy.

In addition to slut praising, there was slut shaming in the play as well. For example, after Anna was grounded for smashing her 11-year-old sister in the face, Anna referred to her sister as a “stupid little whore” whom was “becoming a real bitch, too.” However, Anna didn’t share what her little sister did to be referred to as a little whore.

Since Anna couldn’t attend the party with Joey at Connor’s, Anna decided to binge-watch Friday Night Lights starring Tim Riggins. Tim Riggins was played by Taylor Kitsch, who played Tim Riggins from the age of 25 to 30, which is why Anna referred to him as her “dream man” whom she, consequently, wanted to “do”.

JOEY. OOOOoooo. Tim Riggins!

ANNA. My dream man. I wanna do him.

(Note: The actresses who played Joey and Anna were teens. For example, Alpart was 16 when she played 16-year-old Joey. )

On the way to Connor’s party in a cab, after dancing in the back seat and making out with George, Joey was forcibly “fingered” by George and Luke, two schoolboys, as the cab sped from Columbus Circle to 78th and Lex .

JOEY. I just sort of slung my leg over George’s.

JOEY. We were kind of dancing in the back [of the cab], and George was sort of keeping the beat on my leg, you know [...] playing drums on my leg.

JOEY. And then George and I started to, like...make out [...] then he started to put his hand up my leg.

JOEY. [...] his hand actually went up my dress and sort of grazed my crotch. [...] So I said, “George, come on, stop. Just wait until we get to Connor’s.”

JOEY. So then, next thing I know, Luke is grabbing my other leg ... [...] so my, um, legs would be more open and George—[...] was on top of my leg, sort of pinning me down.

JOEY. Then George all of a sudden really aggressively pulls my underwear to the side and jammed two of his fingers inside me. (Beat.)

JOEY. I was crying at this point, but I didn’t scream.

JOEY. My vagina was pretty exposed, and I kept thinking if this guy [i.e., the cab driver] turns around [...] we’re going to get in an accident.

JOEY. George had his fingers in me... Two…[...] moving them in and out as hard as he could and as fast as he could. [...] And I’m crying. And the whole time Luke is making fun of George [...] because I’m not coming. Because I’m not having an orgasm. [...] he finally pulled his fingers out. Luke was laughing and he was bragging how he was going to show George how it was done. Then he put two of his fingers in his mouth.

JOEY. [...] then Luke laughs—and then he stuck his wet fingers in my vagina. [...] Then he did the same thing as George except he was trying to show off. I was hysterically crying, and he kept saying things like, “Come on JoJo—you know you wanna come—you know you’re wet now.” [...] And he and George laughed. Luke pulled his fingers out of me and wiped them on George’s shirt. And then they let go of me. (Beat.)

Almost everyone slut shamed Joey for being forcibly “fingered” by George and Luke whom convincingly told everyone that Joey “hooked up with all of them in the back of that cab.” Even Joey’s mother called her a “little slut”. Christina said that Joey “loses control sometimes” and that Joey had “done weird shit before”. Natalie said that Joey was “slutting herself out”. It didn’t help that there were pictures posted online of Joey tasting fruit-flavored condoms, which implied to some that Joey had planned to give George and Luke “blow jobs”. And Leila related that there were pictures from the cab that looked like Joey was giving George a lap dance.

In addition, Leila felt bad for George, because Joey’s accusations could have prevented him from getting into Harvard. Consequently, Leila referred to Joey as a slut and a liar.

LEILA. Because I feel bad for him. Are you kidding me? This whole thing is a real shit show. This type of shit can ruin someone’s whole life, and I feel bad for him. Because, you know, it’s been his dream to go to Harvard like his dad.

LEILA. Because I really like him and I know he didn’t mean anything by it. They were wasted. Whatever—it happened. She’s a slut, and she was all over his shit. Did you see those pictures? She was basically giving him a lap dance. What was he supposed to do?

LEILA. “She obviously regrets what she did Friday night, so she feels like she’s gotta make shit up.”

Interestingly, George was Joey’s first boyfriend, which was in the fourth-grade. Prior to the incident in the cab, after Leila shared with Joey that she and George had “hooked up a little bit”, Joey said, “I mean we all, like, whatever, with each other. It’s nothing. It’s just what you do.”

However, Joey wasn’t the first schoolgirl to accuse George of untoward behavior. For instance, Grace shared that, before she and George started dating, George forced her to give him a hand job in the bathroom.

GRACE. You know, George once followed me into the bathroom and locked the door and wouldn’t let me out until I gave him a hand job. True story. I didn’t tell anyone. We ended up going out for, like, five months...

In terms of the salacious behavior of (some) Manhattan’s privileged teens, the text of the guidebook is just as revealing as the text of the play. For example, Jennifer Baumgardner shared in “Why StopSlut?” that when she was in gym class, another 7th grader said, “Jenny, your sister’s a slut. She had sex at Bob’s party over the weekend.” The middle school slut shaming was in reference to Andrea, Jenny’s 14-year-old sister, because while Andrea was trying to “sober up” at Bob’s party, Andrea’s boyfriend’s best friend “decided to have sex with her.” Subsequently, schoolboys shockingly ran “their hands up her skirt as she passed by” and pulled “her into rooms at parties.” Baumgardner wrote that “literally dozens” of her friends had similar stories. (Interestingly, Jennifer wrote that it took her and Andrea “many years” to come to the conclusion that Andrea had been forced to have sex.)

In the chapter “Reality Check From Young Voices”, Sonia, a 15-year-old sophomore from a small town in Pennsylvania, shared that after she asked her boyfriend what he wanted for his 16th birthday, he replied that he wanted a “blow job”. Sonia:

We had been dating for a little over a month, when I asked him what he wanted for this sixteenth birthday. All he wanted from me was a blow job.

I’d say, “Hey, what do you want for your birthday?” and he’d say, “Head.”

Sonia typically preferred having teen sex; therefore, she reluctantly came to the conclusion: “Fine! I’ll give my boyfriend head because I’d rather that than him yell at me again [for not giving him a head].” To Sonia’s dismay, she performed oral sex for over a year, and when she was on her menses, her boyfriend dubbed it “blow job week”.

13-year-old Fred wrote that when he and Lenny were in the 6th grade, Lenny asked Fred, “You watch porn?” Lenny was on to something, because Fred started watching porn “halfway through fifth grade” (i.e., at 10 or 11-years-old). Fred wrote:

I started watching porn halfway through fifth grade. I had just begun middle school, and befriended a lot of kids in the seventh and eighth grade. Sometimes when I hung out with them they would make jokes about the porn they watched, referencing certain sites.

As for Lenny, an apparent middle-school cad, while visiting Lola, he: “took his penis and slapped it on her leg because he felt like it”.

(“In Porn Before Puberty?”, an ABC News feature, Winnifred Bonjean Alpart shared with a reporter that when she was in eighth grade: "[..] boys mostly, were watching porn during school [...] during independent reading, they would do that.")

And in “I’ve Slutted. Have You?”, 17-year-old Danielle related that she went to a Jewish summer camp in Pennsylvania where promiscuous teen behavior was encouraged and cultivated by campers and camp counselors. Consequently, during summer camp, there were “sexual firsts for everyone”. (Everyone?) Danielle wrote:

I go to this typical Jewish summer camp, where promiscuous behavior is practically encouraged and cultivated. Let’s be real, it’s literally eight weeks of teenagers breaking the counselors’ rules (who in turn egg us on!) in an isolated campsite in the middle of Milford, Pennsylvania—the middle of nowhere. In those two months, with no parental supervision, there are lots of sexual firsts for everyone.

The promiscuous behavior didn’t only happen at camp, it happened during the annual camp reunion night-before-reunion sleepover as well. For example, take Georgia, who Danielle described as “really petite and very pretty”, “the dream girl”, and who was “always hooking up with someone”. Unsurprisingly, Georgia was not a virgin. Danielle wrote:

The group of girls that I'm friendly with define themselves by their flirtatiousness and sexual interests. There is one girl in particular, Georgia, who is really petite and very pretty, and she doesn’t speak that much. She’s always hooking up with someone and she lost her virginity before many of the rest of us. She’s the dream girl for all the guys at my camp.

During the night-before-reunion sleepover, after “[e]very-one got very drunk” and while being filmed and encouraged by her best friends and fellow campers, Georgia performed oral sex on two boys in the back-yard. Danielle wrote:

[...] Every-one got very drunk. Josh and another boy coerced—basically forced—Georgia to give them blow jobs, while others filmed it on their phones. Watching the videos disgusted me. They were pressuring her to take off her clothes and give other guys in the crowd blow jobs—and all of this was going on in the back-yard of someone’s home! Initially Georgia resisted, very drunkenly, and repeatedly declined these boys’ demands. Then she ended up giving in. The scari-est part is that her best friends were doing nothing to stop it, but were laughing and encouraging the whole display.

Slut: A Play, which praised and shamed teen sluts, premiered at the Lynn Redgrave Theater in Manhattan (August 19, 2013). Cappiello and McInerney related that the play was: “[...] authentic, nuanced, and hard-hitting.” And that everything in this play was “inspired by real events,” which is revealing, because it appears that it’s not Dirty Old Men whom schoolgirls need to worry about, it's Dirty Young Boys.

Lastly, take Hunter Gaynes, who hooked up with 13-year-old Nadia “so cute” Boyd while she was on her menses. Consequently, Hunter “got everyone” to call Nadia “Bloody Beaver”, and Hunter, being “a little freshman douche”, even “put that shit all over Facebook.”

Long Island Middle School Girls Gone Wild! (New York Times)

Back on December 29, 2006, in the Opinion/Editorial Observer section of the New York Times, Lawrence Downes wrote about “Middle School Girls Gone Wild”. In the essay, Downes wrote about a Long Island middle school talent show “where girls in teams of three or four” “in tiny skirts or tight shorts, with bare bellies, rouged cheeks and glittery eyes” performed “elaborately choreographed re-creations of music videos”.

Downes elaborated that while performing to Janet Jackson’s “All Nite (Don't Stop)” 2004, the middle school girls, to the cheers, whistles, and applause of their parents, would “writhe and strut, shake their bottoms, splay their legs, thrust their chests out and in and out again” while Jackson advised: "Don't stop, don't stop\Jerk it like you're making it choke (like that)”. Downes wrote:

They writhe and strut, shake their bottoms, splay their legs, thrust their chests out and in and out again. Some straddle empty chairs, like lap dancers without laps. They don't smile much. Their faces are locked from grim exertion, from all that leaping up and lying down without poles to hold onto. "Don't stop, don't stop," sings Janet Jackson, all whispery. "Jerk it like you're making it choke. Ohh. I'm so stimulated. Feel so X-rated." The girls spend a lot of time lying on the floor. They are in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades.

As each routine ends, parents and siblings cheer, whistle and applaud.

Here’s the complete chorus and some lyrics from Jackson’s “All Nite (Don't Stop)”, the schoolgirl’s song of choice:

Work it like you're working a pole

Shake it 'til you're shaking the floor

Pop it like you're popping a cork

Don't stop, don't stop

Jerk it like you're making it choke (like that)

Break it like you're breaking the code (like that)

Drop it 'til you're taking it lower (like that)

Drop it, drop it

So intoxicated

I'm so stimulated

Feel so X-Rated

In addition, Downes wrote: “The latest debate centers on whether simulated intercourse is an appropriate dance style for the high school gym.” However, I don't think there's a debate, because Downes related that, to his surprise, (secular) parents generally condone eroticized adolescence. Downes:

It is news to no one, not even me, that eroticism in popular culture is a 24-hour, all-you-can-eat buffet, and that many children in their early teens are filling up. 

What surprised me, though, was how completely parents of even younger girls seem to have gotten in step with society's march toward eroticized adolescence -- either willingly or through abject surrender. And if parents give up, what can a school do? 

Blush (2019)

In a bit of life imitating art and eroticized adolescence being displayed on school stages, take the film Blush (2019), which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. One minute and forty-five seconds into the film, which was written and directed by Debra Eisenstadt, Cathy and Matthew went to Lincoln Middle School to see Tara, their 13-year-old daughter, and eight of Tara’s classmates perform in the Fall Fair performance.

Blush (2019)

And just like the Long Island schoolgirls, the Lincoln Middle schoolgirls writhed salaciously in shiny bra tops and tiny tight shorts while Tara’s dad smiled and nodded approvingly. 

Mean Girls (2024) | Talent Show

And in Mean Girls: The (Broadway) Musical and Mean Girls (2024) the film, during the Winter Talent Show, the high school girls writhed salaciously on North Shore High School’s stage.

Mean Girls: The Musical | Talent Show

Regina writhed so salaciously that her mini skirt fell onto the Broadway stage, revealing her black cheeky thong to the theatergoers. 

"Dream Story" and EYES WIDE SHUT's (Teen) Ladies of the Night

The Young Lady (14-Year-Old Leelee Sobieski)
and Dr. Harford (Tom Cruise)

In Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Dr. Harford (Tom Cruise) went to the Rainbow costume boutique to purchase a cloak and mask to attend a masquerade (i.e., orgy). While perusing the racks, Milich, the boutique’s owner, discovered his young daughter (14-year-old Leelee Sobieski) in her bra and panties as she was involved in an age-gap three-way with two middle-aged Japanese men.

After Milich, understandably yet violently, confronted the Japanese men, Milich learned that the “young lady” (i.e., his “child”) invited the men to the age-gap three-way.

Japanese man, "Are you crazy? We were invited here by the young lady."

Milich replied, "Young lady. This is my daughter. Couldn't you see she's a child?"

Milich wasn’t naive; thus, he didn’t put the blame solely on the men, because he surmised that his daughter was to blame as well. Consequently, Milich attempted to corporally punish her, and he called her a “little whore” before she escaped to sensuously embrace Dr. Harford from behind for protection.

However, after Dr. Harford returned to the Rainbow, he observed Milich’s child exit the back room of the boutique with the two Japanese men in tow, which was following their apparent (off-screen) three-way. After the child lovingly embraced her father, he formally introduced her, still in her bra and panties, to Dr. Harford; thereby, revealing to filmgoers that Milich had come to condone his daughter’s salacious behavior.

Per the "Eyes Wide Shut, Part 1 (Erotic 90's, Part 20)" episode of the You Must Remember This podcast, Sobieski was 14-years-old when her Eyes Wide Shut scenes were filmed, but she was 16 when the film was released, which is when she appeared on the August 1999 cover of Details magazine with the leading lead article line: “READY OR NOT: LEELEE SOBIESKI GROWS UP FAST IN EYES WIDE SHUT”

Eyes Wide Shut is based on Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Dream Story. In the novella, Dr. Harford is Dr. Fridolin, Milich is Gibiser, and Milich’s daughter is a “little Pierrette” who was described as a "graceful little girl," a "young and charming girl, still almost a child”.

In the novella’s costume rental shop, Mr. Gibiser discovered his little Pierrette with “two judges in red robes”. Consequently, she disappeared, but she soon reappeared after “slithering out from under the table” in a “pair of white silk stockings”, and ran lovingly into the arms of Dr. Fridolin with her face powdered, her breasts scented, and her eyes filled with desire. Schnitzler wrote:

The little one pressed herself against Fridolin as if he had to protect her. Her small narrow face was white-powered, covered with some beauty spots, from her tender breasts rose a scent of roses and powder; her eyes smiled mischief and desire.

She looked up at him enticingly and childlike, as if spellbound.

Understandably, Mr. Gibiser threatened to call the police on the two judges in red, but the judges informed Mr. Gibiser that his little Pierrette initiated the age-gap affair.

“Gentlemen,” called Gibiser, “you will stay here until I hand you over to the police.”

“What are you thinking?” cried both. And as if from one mouth: “We followed an invitation from the young lady.”

Consequently, Gibiser called his daughter a “depraved creature” and sent her, “white and delicate”, off to bed.

However, by the next day, readers learned that Gibiser came to condone his daughter’s depraved behavior, because after one of the judges exited the little Pierrette’s bedroom, lit a (post sex) cigarette, and bid Gibiser adieu, Gibiser informed Dr. Harford that he and the judge had “come to an agreement by other means” (i.e., a financial agreement). Schnitzler wrote:

At that moment, the door leading to the inner rooms opened, and a young man in an open overcoat over his evening dress stepped out. Fridolin knew immediately that it could be none other than one of the judges from last night. No doubt, he came from Pierrette’s room.

He seemed taken aback when he caught sight of Fridolin, but quickly composed himself. He greeted Gibiser fleetingly with a wave of his hand, then lit a cigarette using a lighter on the office desk, and left the apartment.

After Dr. Fridolin left the costume shop, “with a feeling of annoyance that seemed disproportionate even to him”, he went to the polyclinic, where a young patient smiled at him, and she happened to be the same girl who had pressed her young breasts against his cheek. Schnitzler wrote:

The young girl with the suspicious apical catarrh in the last bed smiled at him. It was the same one who had recently pressed her breasts so trustingly against his cheek during an examination.

(Note: Dr. Fridolin may have referred to the young patient's “apical catarrh” as suspicious, because it could have developed due to sexual activity.)

Earlier in the novella, Dr. Fridolin and Albertine, Dr. Fridolin’s wife, who was “barely seventeen” when they got engaged, shared past attractions that they had developed while on a family trip to Denmark. Dr. Fridolin shared with his wife that at the beach, he became attracted to a “young girl, perhaps fifteen years old, with loose blonde hair flowing over her shoulders and down one side of her delicate breast.”

After the beautiful beachgoer caught sight of Dr. Fridolin, “she smiled, smiled wonderfully” with a “greeting, even a wave in her eyes”. In response to Dr. Fridolin’s gaze upon her, she "stretched her young slender body high” and she became “sweetly excited by the radiance” of his gaze. The beautiful girl’s gaze upon Dr. Fridolin caused him to feel a “movement, surpassing anything” that he had ever felt. So much so, that he “felt close to fainting." However, the young beachgoer and Dr. Fridolin did not commence an age-gap affair.

Lastly, in terms of young prostitutes and\or age-gap affairs in the novella, one night in Buchfeldgasse, Dr. Fridolin: “found himself on a narrow street where only a few suspicious-looking [young] women wandered about, making sad attempts to attract customers,” where he was stopped by 17-year-old Mizzi, a “young and pretty [sex worker], with a pale face and naturally red lips.”

“Won’t you come with me, doctor?” Mizzi asked.

“Come on,” she said when he hesitated.

After the doctor entered the young prostitute’s room, where an “oil lamp burned”, she “smiled and approached Fridolin”, “she undressed unhurriedly”, and she “sought his lips with hers.” However, Dr. Fridolin said, “I am really tired [...] You have such a sweet, gentle voice. Just talk, tell me something.” Mizzi rebutted, “You’re just afraid” And she exclaimed, “What a pity!”

Ultimately, 35-year-old Dr. Fridolin regretted that he didn’t cheat on his wife with, among other (young) women, the little Pierrette and the teen prostitute. Schnitzler wrote:

Only then did he think of Albertine - but as if he had to win her over again too. He felt he couldn't be with her again until he had cheated on her with all the others from tonight: the naked woman, Pierrette, Marianne, and the girl from the narrow alley.

Consequently, Dr. Fridolin went back to Mizzi’s apartment, but he was informed by “another young, not unattractive woman, [who] was wrapped in a bathrobe” that Mizzi, whom he described as “the most graceful, yes, even the purest of all”, was in the hospital. Then the young woman shared with the doctor, “But we’re healthy, thank God,” and she “came very close to Fridolin with half-open lips and a cheeky throwing back of her voluptuous body, so the bathrobe opened.”

Unsurprisingly, Eyes Wide Shut was nominated for a César Award for Best Foreign Film, and Schnitzler’s novella, which was first published in 1926, has been adapted and translated from German a number of times over the years.

The Rolling Stones' "Stray Cat Blues" and Mick Jagger's Scratching and Spitting Teen Groupie

"Stray Cat Blues" is an age-gap song on The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet (1968). The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richardson and, of course, sung by Jagger. On "Stray Cat Blues", Jagger, who was 25-years-old when the song was recorded, sings about having rough sex (e.g., scratching, screaming, spitting, and biting) with a 15-year-old groupie. 

In the intro, Jagger seemingly brags about having (rough) sex (with a teen groupie).

[Intro]

Ah... hey

Yeah, got some tail

In verse 1, listeners learn that the teen groupie, whom Jagger initially referred to as Honey, wasn’t wearing trainers, but she appeared to be apprehensive. Consequently, Jagger encouraged her by inviting her to a “feast”, and he consoled her by singing that what they were about to do wasn’t a “capital crime”, like murder, which is interesting considering the age-of-consent in London is 16.

[Verse 1]

I hear the click-clack of your feet on the stairs

I know you're no scare-eyed honey

There'll be a feast if you just come upstairs, but

It's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

In verse 2, the groupie attempted to show Jagger her fake ID, but it was obvious to Jagger that she was underage.

[Verse 2]

I can see that you're fifteen years old

No, I don't want your I.D

And I can see that you're so far from home, but

That's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

During the chorus, Jagger referred to the groupie as a Stray Cat, which may be a reference to the third lyric in verse 2 when Jagger sang that the groupie was “so far from home”, and/or one can infer that he named her a Stray Cat, because, not only did she scream and spit during sex, she scratched too. 

[Chorus]

Oh, yeah, you're a strange stray cat

Oh, yeah, don't you scratch like that

Oh, yeah, you're a strange stray cat

I bet, bet your mama don't know you scream like that

I bet your mother don't know you do spit like that

In verse 3, Jagger reiterated that the Stray Cat was apprehensive, because she looked weird and scared, but he consoled her by singing that he was not mad-brained (i.e., rash, hotheaded [Merriam-Webster])

[Verse 3]

You look so weird, and you're so far from home

But you don't really miss your mother

You look so scared, I'm not no mad-brained bear

But, but it's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

In the next chorus, Jagger shared that the groupie, not only screamed, spat, and scratched during sex, she was a biter too!

[Chorus]

Oh, yeah

Woo!

I bet your mama don't know that you scratch like that

I bet she don't know you can bite like that

In verse 4, the groupie shared with Jagger that she had a friend whom did even more during sex. Unsurprisingly, Jagger asked for an age-gap three-some. 

[Verse 4]

You say you got a friend that she's wilder than you

Why don't you bring her upstairs?

If she's so wild, then she can join in too

It's no hanging matter, huh

It's no capital crime

And just in case you were wondering exactly how the Stray Cat scratched during sex, Jagger elaborated in the last chorus.

[Chorus]

Oh, yeah, you're a strange stray cat

Oh, yeah, don't you scratch like that

Oh, yeah, you're a strange stray cat

I bet your mama don't know you can bite like that

I'll bet she never saw you scratch my back

Jagger sang that the groupie was scare-eyed and that she screamed, spat, scratched, and bit during sex with Jagger. Hence, some listeners may opine that the sex was forced; however, some listeners are of the opinion that those were (sex) acts of passion. For example,  in the book Counting Down The Rolling Stones: Their 100 Finest Songs, Jim Beviglia ranked “Stray Cats Blues” The Rolling Stones’ 49th best song. In the post “The Rolling Stones’ 40 best songs” (6th March 2015), Uncut magazine ranked “Stray Cats Blues” 39th. And in the Rolling Stone piece “100 Greatest Rolling Stones Songs” (October 15, 2013), the magazine ranked the song 43rd.

And per Rolling Stone, Jagger, whom the magazine referred to as a “sleazy rocker”, revealed during a concert that the Stray Cat was actually 13!

Jagger’s Stray Cat reminded me of Lori Maddox, because Nikki McWatters related in her Huffington Post post “Predatory Teenage Girls” (13/12/2012), that at the age of 13, Lori lost her virginity to 24-year-old David Bowie.

And a year later, Lori became 24-year-old Jimmy Page's steady girlfriend.

Mick Jagger (74) & Noor Alfallah (23)

Lastly, even after all these years, Jagger hasn’t stopped having age-gap affairs. Ashley Baker related in the AirMail piece “AARP-Breaker” (October 19, 2024), that, in addition to age-affairs with Al Pacino, [23-year-old] Noor Alfallah had an age-gap affair with [74-year-old] Mick Jagger. 

Famous Age-Gap Couple: NFL Legend Tom Brady (48) and Influencer Alix Earle (25)

Alex Ross posted on People “Tom Brady, 48, and Alix Earle, 25, Spotted Cozying Up in St. Barths Club on New Year's Eve: The former NFL star and the influencer were seen dancing together as they rang in 2026 (January 1, 2026)

Tom Brady (48) and Alix Earle (25) "Cozying Up" in St. Barths

The use of “cozying up” must be in reference to Alix whispering into Tom’s ear and sensuously rubbing his back.  Ross reported:

Tom Brady and Alix Earle were spotted ringing in 2026 together.

A source confirms to PEOPLE that the former Patriots quarterback, 48, and the influencer, 25, were [...] in St. Barths on Dec. 31 where they were hanging out and looking cozy.

In videos obtained by PEOPLE, Earle and Brady can be seen chatting and dancing together. At one point, Earle flashes Brady a grin and can also be seen leaning over to whisper something in Brady's ear while she rubs her hand along his back. 

However, Alix wasn’t the only member of the 23-year age-gap couple to openly show signs of affection, because Tom was spotted sensually capturing Alix’s waist, which was referenced in Wiktoria Gucia’s post on The Daily Beast “Tom Brady, 48, Spotted Getting Cozy With Influencer Half His Age: The former NFL quarterback was seen grabbing the social media influencer’s waist as they whispered to each other on New Year’s Eve. (Jan. 1 2026) Gucia reported:

Tom Brady was spotted getting cozy with a social media influencer half his age on New Year’s Eve.

In a video obtained by TMZ, the 48-year-old former quarterback can be seen dancing in St. Barths with 25-year-old Alix Earle, who rose to fame on TikTok and competed on Season 34 of Dancing with the Stars. Earle then whispers something in Brady’s ear while rubbing his back.

In another video, Brady can be seen grabbing Earle’s waist as they chat back and forth.

Interestingly, not only did Gucia note that Alix’s age is half Tom’s age, but she also related that Alix’s father is only two years older than Tom, which clearly doesn’t appear to be an issue for Alix. 

Piper Rockelle: The 18-Year-Old OnlyFans Record Breaker

We first wrote about Piper Rockelle, a content creator with over 17 million TikTok followers, over four years ago, which was when Pink, the Grammy Award winning singer, opined that Piper, then-14-years-old and bikini-clad, was being exploited by Tiffany Smith, Piper's mother.

In the Page Six post, “14-year-old YouTuber responds to Pink’s criticism of her bikini photos" (September 1, 2021), Chelsea Hirsch quoted Pink:

“How many kids like Piper Rockelle are being exploited by their parents? And at what point do the rest of us say … ‘this isn’t okay for a 13 yr old to be posing in a bikini whilst her MOTHER takes the photo?!?!'”

However, Hirsch related that Piper responded to Pink by stating that Tiffany didn’t force her to do anything, and Piper said that posing in bikinis was the fulfillment of her teen dreams, which her mother simply helped her to fulfill.

“The first thing I want everyone to know is that my mom doesn’t make me do anything. Quite the opposite,” [Piper] Rockelle told TMZ Tuesday. “I’m a kid who had a dream, and my mom is amazing enough to help me live it out.”

“I don’t think Pink has ever seen one of my YouTube videos because if she did, she’d see it’s just my friends and me having fun and acting like ourselves,” she added. “The content we make is the kind of stuff anyone can watch.”

Piper Rockelle and the Squad

However, in the Teen Vogue piece “Piper Rockelle Turned 18. This Birthday, She Hopes, Will Change Everything” (August 21, 2025), Fortesa Latifi wrote that after the teen influencer group “Piper Rockelle and the Squad” was disbanded, which at its height was “pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars a month”, former members of the group accused Piper’s mother of “emotional, verbal, physical, and at times, sexual abuse.” Naturally, Piper and her mother denied the allegations, but “the lawsuit was settled in 2024 for a reported $1.85 million”.

In the People post “Tiffany Smith Allegedly Sent Underage Daughter Piper Rockelle's 'Stalker' Photos in Exchange for Gifts” (April 11, 2025), Zoey Lyttle related that in the Netflix docuseries Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing (2025), Heather Nichole, a former stylist for “Piper Rockelle and the Squad” and her daughter, Sophie Fergi, a former member the group, alleged that Piper’s mother stressed that Piper was “sluttier” than Sophie and, consequently, Piper needed “sluttier clothes” because, “She needs to show more.” Heather said,

"I would buy them cute little tracksuits or matching clothes. Like, [11- and 12-year-old] girl clothes," Nichole said of her shopping for [Sophie] Fergi and Rockelle, who were tweens at the time. "Tiffany would get so pissed and be like, 'Piper is not Sophie. She's sluttier. Get her sluttier clothes ... She needs to show more.'"

Unsurprisingly, Piper’s mother denied Heather’s accusations, but there were more. For example, Corinne Joy, a former member of “Piper Rockelle and the Squad,” alleged in the docuseries that Piper’s mother sold Piper’s underwear to old men, simply because, “[...] old men like to smell them.” Lyttle wrote:

Another ex-squad star, Corinne Joy, also now 17, and her mother Steevy Areeco described a disturbing interaction which allegedly took place between Smith [Piper’s mother] and the young girl [Corinne] [...]

"Corinne came home and asked me why old men like to smell underwear," the mom said in an interview for the exposé series [...] As [Corinne] Joy recalled on camera, she joined Smith to drop Rockelle off at an acting or singing lesson, then Smith and Joy went to the post office so the single parent could "drop off some things."

The young content creator continued, "[Smith] had a bag, and she pulled out what looked like Piper's underwear. I asked her, 'Why are you shipping those out?' And she told me that old men like to smell them. And I was like, 'What is she talking about?' "

And mothers of former members of “Piper Rockelle and the Squad” alleged that Piper’s mother exchanged exclusive pictures of then-10-year-old Piper with a man, and that Piper’s mother allegedly allowed Piper to flirt with the man on the phone in exchange for “extravagant gifts” like Gucci bags, hoverboards, and iPhones. Lyttle wrote:

In another part of the docuseries, former squad moms [...] detailed Smith's interactions with an anonymous fan. He was a man, but online he went by the name Megan and often sent extravagant gifts to then-10-year-old Rockelle and her mother.

Smith allegedly told Nichole, "You can get stuff too if you send him pictures [...]”

In the docuseries, Joy added that Smith would regularly tell her daughter that Megan was on the phone, and [Piper] Rockelle would join the call to say hi to her fan.

"Just by flirting and sending him photos, Tiffany got herself a Gucci bag from Megan, Piper got a Gucci bag, all these outlandish gifts," said Nichole. Fergi added that Megan sent brand new computers, cameras, camera lenses, microphones, hoverboards and iPhones. "Anything that you could think of that Piper wanted, she got from Megan," said Fergi.

Piper Rockelle Celebrated Turning 18

Once again, Piper and her mother denied all of the allegations that were alleged in the docuseries, but Piper, who turned 18 on August 21, 2025, is, unsurprisingly, still surrounded by controversy. 

About six months before she turned 18, Piper visited the Bop House, which is an OnlyFans content creator collective. Thereby, Piper teased that she would follow Sami Sheen (i.e., the daughter of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen), Danielle “Bhad Bhabie” Bregoli, and Tay “Lil Tay” Tian, whom all joined OnlyFans upon turning 18 and quickly earned millions. 

In the post on People, “YouTuber Piper Rockelle, 17, Responds to Backlash About Collabing with OnlyFans Creators at Bop House” (February 26, 2025), Victoria Edel posted: 

Piper Rockelle is reacting to online criticism after she visited TikTok’s Bop House.

The 17-year-old [...] recently received backlash after she visited Bop House and filmed videos with some of the residents. The women who live in the house (which has 3 million TikTok followers of its own) primarily make content for OnlyFans.

After posting a number of videos with the creators, [Piper] Rockelle, who describes herself online as an actress/dancer/singer, reacted to the online criticism in a TikTok posted on Feb. 24. Over footage of herself, she wrote, “How many times are they going to cry [about] me being in the bop house.” She then pretended to cry while some of the Bop House creators joined her to dance.

The Bop House and Piper (17) Collab 

Edel wrote that to promote Piper’s visit, Sophie Rain, the 20-year-old co-founder of the Bop House, posted a video with Piper. Of course, Piper posted a video of her visit with the young OnlyFans influencers as well. And Piper shared that she was "so grateful for the opportunity to collab with the Bop House creators." 

Of course, Piper’s mother isn’t the first or last mother to exploit her daughter’s power. Take Demi Moore, who, per Wikipedia, in 1995 was the world's highest-paid actress. Demi shared in her memoir, Inside Out, that when she was 15, her (alcoholic) mother paraded her in bars. Consequently, unable to resist the allure of a nymphet, an approximately 48-year-old wealthy Greek man paid Demi's mother $500 for sex with the future film star. Afterwards, the Greek asked Demi, "How does it feel to be whored out [by your mother] for $500?"

As for Piper, Sean James posted on Mediaite “Social Media Star Racks Up $1 Million in First Hour on OnlyFans — Soon After Turning 18” (Jan 1st, 2026) In the post, James reported that, on New Year’s Day 2026, which was about four months after Piper turned 18, she earned a record breaking $1.26 million in her first hour on OnlyFans! James wrote:

A social media star pulled in more than $1 million in her first hour on OnlyFans on New Year’s Day — a move that disturbed a number of people on social media because it came just months after she turned 18.

Piper Rockelle is a YouTube sensation who rocketed to fame on the Google-owned platform, where she now has more than 12 million subscribers [...]

But she is now earning big bucks on the platform synonymous with adult content.

Rockelle made $1.26 million according to her screenshot. Most of that came from subscriptions — about $900K — while nearly $300K came from messages, and another $63,000 came from tips. She netted more than a $1 million after OnlyFans took its cut.

On X, Piper celebrated making “$1,000,000 in less than an hour”, and she thanked her OnlyFans fans for changing her life. 

“We broke the record!!! $1,000,000 in less than an hour,” Rockelle celebrated on X. “You guys are the best thank you for changing my life.”

And Piper shared in her OnlyFans bio that “everyone” discouraged her from doing OnlyFans, but that it’s “time to take it ALL OFF”. And she added: “oh well here goes nothing…”

everyone told me not to do this but here we are… time to take it ALL OFF for you bbys 💖

if you told younger me i would be doing OF right now i would never believe you 😳 oh well here goes nothing…

After OnlyFans turned Sami Sheen, Bhad Bhabie, Lil Tay, and Piper into overnight teen millionaires, the pipeline from influencers slash content creators to (teen) sex workers will only continue.