Tuesday, March 5, 2024

NEW YORK TIMES Exposé: Mothers Sell Teen Daughters' Sexualized Photos and Videos on Instagram!

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Michael H. Keller posted for the New York Times


A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men


Seeking social media stardom [i.e., money] for their underage daughters, mothers post [risqué] images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more [i.e., the mothers accept money to show more of their daughters].” (Feb. 22, 2024)


Per, Valentino-DeVries and Keller, Elissa began posting photos of her 11-year-old daughter on Instagram in 2020. Consequently, Elissa’s daughter has over 100,000 followers. Some of whom subscribe for $9.99 per month for exclusive content. Other nymphets obtain goods and money via Amazon and CashApp. While others earn: “[...] shopping sprees, gifts like iPhones and iPads, and cash.”


Elissa has been running her daughter’s Instagram account since 2020, when the girl was 11 and too young to have her own. Photos show a bright, bubbly girl modeling [...] She has more than 100,000 followers, some so enthusiastic about her posts that they pay $9.99 a month for more photos.


Some girls on Instagram use their social media clout to get little more than clothing discounts; others receive gifts from Amazon wish lists, or money through Cash App; and still others earn thousands of dollars a month by selling subscriptions with exclusive content.


In addition to photos, some parents sell “exclusive chat sessions” with their daughters. And they sell their daughter’s “worn leotards and cheer outfits”. Interestingly, Valentino-DeVries and Keller wrote that the buyers, some of whom spend thousands on nymphets, are “mostly unknown followers”. Does that mean that some of the buyers are friends of the family?


Some parents are the driving force behind the sale of photos, exclusive chat sessions and even the girls’ worn leotards and cheer outfits to mostly unknown followers. The most devoted customers spend thousands of dollars nurturing the underage relationships.


In addition to money from men, moms and daughters can earn more money and free products from brands. And more followers (i.e., men), can mean more money and free products. And via Instagram’s algorithm, more followers (i.e., men) can lead to even more followers (i.e., men). #feedbackloop


The large audiences boosted by men can benefit the families, The Times found. The bigger followings look impressive to brands and bolster chances of getting discounts, products and other financial incentives, and the accounts themselves are rewarded by Instagram’s algorithm with greater visibility on the platform, which in turn attracts more followers.


Should we be surprised that, per Valentino-DeVries and Keller, approximately 33% of preteen nymphets desire to be influencers, when the: “[...] creator economy surpasses $250 billion worldwide, according to Goldman Sachs, with U.S. brands spending more than $5 billion a year on influencers.” And: “Some of the child influencers earn six-figure incomes, according to interviews.”


Consequently, due to the large sums of money, some parents can’t stop exploiting their daughters on social media (e.g., “[...] girls in skimpy bikinis whose parents actively encourage male admirers and sell them special photo sets.”)


“I really don’t want my child exploited on the internet,” said Kaelyn, a mother in Melbourne, Australia [...]


“But she’s been doing this so long now,” she said. “Her numbers are so big. What do we do? Just stop it and walk away?”



Valentino-DeVries and Keller related that parents shared that: “[...] their children enjoyed being on social media or that it was important for a future career.” However, some nymphets, like 17-year-old Kaelyn, whose “childhood [was] spent sporting bikinis online for adult men”, may feel that the logical next step in their young careers is to make (teen) OnlyFans account like Sami Sheen - the daughter of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen.


DragonWing | NYFW 2024


The moms, daughters and their men are not the only benefactors from this industry. Brands and accounts like LA Dance Designs, DragonWing*, and Original Hippie benefit financially from nubile nymphets as well. 


In the dance and gymnastics worlds, teens and preteens jockey to become brand ambassadors for products and apparel. They don bikinis in Instagram posts, walk runways in youth fashion shows and offer paid subscriptions to videos [...]


For many of them, child influencers have become “walking advertising,” supplanting traditional ad campaigns, said Kinsey Pastore, head of marketing for LA Dance Designs, a children’s dance wear company in South Florida.


How much can a nymphet (and her mother) make from a brand for a (suggestive) Instagram post? “The most successful girls can demand $3,000 from their sponsors for a single post on Instagram.”


And how much can a nymphet (and her mother) charge for an Instagram subscription that comes with: “[...] ask me anything” chat sessions and behind-the-scenes photos.”

 

In 2022, Instagram launched paid subscriptions, which allows followers to pay a monthly fee for exclusive content and access. The rules don’t allow subscriptions for anyone under 18, but the mom-run accounts sidestep that restriction. The Times found dozens that charged from 99 cents to $19.99. At the highest price, parents offered “ask me anything” chat sessions and behind-the-scenes photos.


Instagram’s $19.99 subscription fee is quarters compared to the $250 “Elite VIP” subscription fee some moms charge and the “$14,000 in subscription revenue” some teens earn on Brand Army’s “junior channel”.


“Message me anytime. You will have more opportunities for buying and receiving super exclusive content😘,” read a description for a $25 subscription to a [Brand Army] minor’s account. For $100 a month, subscribers can get “live interactive video chats,” unlimited direct messages and a mention on the girl’s Instagram story.


The Times subscribed to several accounts to glean what content is being offered and how much money is being made. On one account, 141 subscribers liked a photo only available to those who paid $100 monthly, indicating over $14,000 in subscription revenue.


And what are men getting for spending hundreds of dollars to subscribe to a 17-year-old’s Brand Army “junior channel”?


Some of the descriptions also highlight the revealing nature of photos. One account for a child around 14 years old encouraged new sign-ups at the end of last year by branding the days between Christmas and New Year’s as “Bikini Week.” An account for a 17-year-old girl advertised that she wasn’t wearing underwear in a workout photo set and, as a result, the images were “uh … a lot spicier than usual.”


Original Hippie

Interestingly, Valentino-DeVries and Keller wrote that a large number of accounts with over: “[...] 100,000 followers had a male audience of over 75 percent, and a few of them over 90 percent, the analysis showed.” Consequently, Dean Stockton, the owner of Original Hippie, stopped deleting the male followers of Original Hippie’s Instragam account as it became a sisyphean effort, but most importantly Stockton’s male followers are very important to Original Hippie’s positioning on Instagram.


Dean Stockton, who runs a small clothing company in Florida called Original Hippie, often features girls from the Instagram accounts, who earn a commission when customers use personalized discount codes. After initially deleting many male followers, he now sees them as a way to grow the account and give it a wider audience because the platform rewards large followings.


“The Bible says, ‘The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous,’” he said. “So sometimes you got to use the things of this world to get you to where you need to be, as long as it’s not harming anybody.”


Grippingly, Valentino-DeVries and Keller used the word pedophiles nine (9) times in their piece; however, per the clinical definition of pedophilia as related in the documentary Are All Men Pedophiles? (2013), Valentino-DeVries and Keller, like most humans, used the word incorrectly:


As I related previously, there’s a difference between the general public term for pedophilia and the technical professional term of pedophilia. The public’s definition is associated with someone who is sexually attracted to girls under the age of 18; however, the clinical definition of pedophilia is:

  1. A sexual preference for pre-pubertal or early pubertal children 

  2. For six months or more the person has acted on those urges or suffers from distress as a result of having the urges

  3. And the individual must be at least 16-years-old and at least five years older than the subject of desire

Thus, arguably, Valentino-DeVries and Keller should have used ephebophiles or hebephiles in reference to the men from whom moms and daughters willfully accepted Amazon wish list times, CashApp deposits, shopping sprees, iPhones and iPads.


Of course, the New York Times isn’t the first outlet to report on this phenomenon. For example, we related that Olivia Carville posted on BloombergBusinessweekTikTok’s Problem Child Has 7 Million Followers and One Proud Mom: Young creators like Jenny Popach are posting suggestively sexual content, sometimes with parental approval, leaving moderators and executives unsure what to do.”



And, of course, even before the advent of social media, parents used their children to earn goods and money. For example, we related that Demi Moore shared in Inside Out, her memoir, 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 actress. And I wrote about a New York Daily News story about a mother whom was arrested in 2014 for (allegedly) traveling from Florida to New York City to prostitute her 15-year-old daughter during Super Bowl XLVIII.



Lastly, Valentino-DeVries and Keller’s piece is about social media accounts run by moms for their daughters, but we previously wrote about salacious social media accounts run by daughters without their mother’s consent. For example, we shared that Alexandra S. Levine posted on Forbes "How TikTok Live Became ‘A Strip Club Filled With 15-Year-Olds’" (Apr 27, 2022) with the intro\kicker: "Livestreams on the social media app are a popular place for men to lurk and for young girls — enticed by money and gifts — to perform sexually suggestive acts.”

Friday, February 23, 2024

BUZZFEED's Celebrity Men "Dating" Teenagers: Steven Tyler (26) and Little Oral Annie (16) | Part 2

 Little Oral Annie and Steven Tyler

Hannah Marder posted on BuzzFeed "I'm Sick Of Male Celebs "Dating" Teenagers — So I've Decided We All Need A Reminder Of The Famous Men Who Have Done It: We need to stop giving these guys a pass because they're talented or beloved." (Apr 26, 2023)

Marder wrote that famous age-gap relationships are "an unfortunately common phenomenon of our society". So much so, that "a lot" of famous men have "dated" nymphets (i.e., "literally minors"), which, in Marder's opinion, makes a lot of famous men predators. 

It's an unfortunately common phenomenon of our society that men will often date younger women — especially when it comes to male celebs. A lot of famous male celebs have even "dated" teenagers. I say "dated" because some of these people were literally minors — and frankly, in my opinion, if you're "dating" a teenager in your 30s or even 20s*, you're a predator.

Marder profiled 21 famous age-gap relationship, but she did not share that a number of those relationships were initiated by the teenagers; thus, one could argue that in some of the age-gap affairs, the predators were the nymphets who were too irresistible to their prey (i.e., the famous (weak) men). In addition, in a number of the age-gap affairs were condoned by the parents. 

And before I recap Marder's list, I have a rhetorical question. Did Marder write the post because she really felt that we needed a reminder about famous age-gap relationships or did she use the allure of nymphets in age-gap relationships as clickbait? (Despite her true intentions, unsurprisingly, it appears that the post was well-read, because it earned a fire emoji and got over 400 comments.)


2. As the lead singer of Aerosmith, Steven Tyler has been beloved for decades. But for some reason, people seem to ignore the fact that he once "dated" a 16-year-old. He literally admitted to it in his memoir, writing, “She was 16, she knew how to nasty, and there wasn’t a hair on it."

It's likely that Tyler is referring to Julia Holcomb, who [...] [l]ike Tyler stated in his memoir, she claims that Tyler persuaded her mother to signed over guardianship to him, which is corroborated in Tyler's own memoir, in which he writes “her parents fell in love with me, signed a paper over for me to have custody, so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state. I took her on tour with me.” Tyler was 26 at the time. 


In Tyler’s memoir, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir, he referred to the nymphet in question as Little Oral Annie whom was a member of the Little Oral Annie Club, which consisted of: “Six nubile young chicks, one cuter than the next.” Somehow, the teen club members had taught each other how to perform profound oral sex on men. Tyler wrote:

Now, one night after our show at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle in late November 1973 [...] our very considerate promoter had invited these girls there for us. “I’ve got a little surprise for you boys.” My, my, my, what do I spy with my little eye? Six nubile young chicks, one cuter than the next. They curtsy and introduce themselves to the band. One says, “Hello, boys, we’re the Little Oral Annie Club.” Well, beam me up, Scotty, says I.

Then she says, “Well, sir, we’ve taught each other how to give great head, so when we meet rock stars . . . we blow you like no man has been blown before.” 

Unsurprisingly, the teen teleiophiles were teen lipstick lesbians as well. And they could perform profound oral sex on girls too. 

To have two girls come up and say, “Hi, we’ll do each other, wanna watch?” is mind-boggling. Six hot girls and one of them whispers in your ear, “I can eat her pussy right here and now better than anyone on the planet.” I think I can safely speak for all males of the species . . . this moment would have changed your religion.

We can infer from Tyler’s description of the Little Oral Annie Club members that at least one of them was dressed in a (sexy) Catholic schoolgirl costume, which, per Tyler, all men find pleasing, which was convenient because the aim of the Little Oral Annie Club was “to please” . 

All these girls were dressed up fantasy style in sexy costumes. Guys are very predictable creatures. We all like schoolgirls in plaid skirts [...] 

Strawberry Fields, as she called herself, was their den mother—kind of heavyset and a little older, but she knew what rock stars—hell, what all boys—wanted. [...] She knew how to take care of her girls and how to please the boys.

The girls are parading around in their outfits, and I’m talking to Strawberry Fields [...]

“So, uh, you girls, you dress up in different outfits?” I asked.
“Well, of course, we have any kind of costume you want,” chimes Ms. Fields. “Just tell me. We’re here to please.” 

Tyler, who was 26 at the time, described Little Oral Annie, who was 16 at the time, as sexually experienced, waxed, “sexy as hell”, and as a “cute skinny little tomboy dressed up as Little Bo Peep.”

[...] my girlfriend to be, one of the six girls in the Little Oral Annie Club we met that night. She was sixteen, she knew how to nasty, and there wasn’t a hair on it. With my bad self “being twenty-six and she barely old enough to drive and sexy as hell, I just fell madly in love with her. She was a cute skinny little tomboy dressed up as Little Bo Peep. She was my heart’s desire, my partner in crimes of passion.
 
Little Oral Annie and Steven Tyler

Little Oral Annie left the Paramount Theatre with Tyler, and they went to the Edgewater Inn were they sat in the: “[...] tub for two hours, naked with no water […]” Subsequently, Tyler fell in love with Little Oral Annie and her parents fell in love with Tyler. Consequently, Little Oral Annie’s parents  gave Tyler custody of their 16-year-old. 

My little oral Annie came back with me to the hotel, the Edgewater Inn in Seattle, where we sat in the tub for two hours, naked with no water […]

I was so in love I almost took a teen bride. I went and slept at her parents’ house for a couple of nights and her parents fell in love with me, signed papers over for me to have custody, so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state. I took her on tour with me. My Sweet Eeee. . .

While on tour, the age-gap couple continued to take baths together, they had sex on the plane, they had sex in public, and they had sex in private. Conveniently, Little Oral Annie: “[...] wore skirts with no panties.”

That was her. I lived with her for three years. She was a sweet, mysterious creature . . . very smart, and she knew what she liked and what I liked. We took baths together. She wore skirts with no panties. We did it on the red-eye from L.A. to Boston . . . that kind of stuff. All the things that guys dream about.

We made love in public, in private, and tried positions the Kama Sutra has yet to come up with. One time we started out in a hot tub on the roof and wound up in the lobby. 

After the tour, Little Oral Annie moved to Boston with Tyler where they became: “[...] best friends and did everything together.” However, three years later, because “the dark side started taking over”, Tyler let her go, and she went back to her parents. But Tyler wrote that he’ll never forget the greatest saying she taught him: that love is love reflected.

At the end of the tour I brought her home to Boston. We got on well for a while . . . we were best friends and did everything together. [...] But toward the end things started to derail. We got so messed up on drugs and were so out of control that the dark side started taking over. [...] When you love somebody, set them free. And I just had to let her go. She went back to her parents, but I can still see her in the songs we sang together. And the greatest thing she taught me . . . that love is love reflected.

Marder posted that: “It's likely that Tyler is referring to Julia Holcomb, who actually sued him last year [2022] for sexual assault, sexual battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress [...]”

Ethan Millman posted on Rolling Stone “Steven Tyler Officially Named In Sexual Assault of a Minor Lawsuit From Decades-Old Claim: Julia Holcomb claims the Aerosmith singer engaged in a sexual relationship with her in the mid-1970s, starting when she was 16 years old” (December 29, 2022) In the piece, Millman wrote that Holcomb (Little Oral Annie) left Tyler after he forced her to get an abortion and that she: “[...] buried her previous experiences with Tyler until he wrote about them in his book.”

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

BUZZFEED's Celebrity Men "Dating" Teenagers: Tyga (25) and Kylie Jenner (17) | Part 1

Hannah Marder posted on BuzzFeed "I'm Sick Of Male Celebs "Dating" Teenagers — So I've Decided We All Need A Reminder Of The Famous Men Who Have Done It: We need to stop giving these guys a pass because they're talented or beloved." (Apr 26, 2023)

Marder wrote that famous age-gap relationships are "an unfortunately common phenomenon of our society". So much so, that "a lot" of famous men have "dated" nymphets (i.e., "literally minors"), which, in Marder's opinion, makes a lot of famous men predators. 

It's an unfortunately common phenomenon of our society that men will often date younger women — especially when it comes to male celebs. A lot of famous male celebs have even "dated" teenagers. I say "dated" because some of these people were literally minors — and frankly, in my opinion, if you're "dating" a teenager in your 30s or even 20s*, you're a predator.

Marder profiled 21 famous age-gap relationship, but she did not share that a number of those relationships were initiated by the teenagers; thus, one could argue that in some of the age-gap affairs, the predators were the nymphets who were too irresistible to their prey (i.e., the famous (weak) men). In addition, in a number of the age-gap affairs were condoned by the parents. 

And before I recap Marder's list, I have a rhetorical question. Did Marder write the post because she really felt that we needed a reminder about famous age-gap relationships or did she use the allure of nymphets in age-gap relationships as clickbait? (Despite her true intentions, unsurprisingly, it appears that the post was well-read, because it earned a fire emoji and got over 400 comments.)

 Tyga and Kylie Jenner

1. There were heavy rumors that Kylie Jenner and Tyga were dating when she was 17 and he was 25. Just days after Tyga denied they were dating, Kanye West, then Jenner's brother-in-law, said, “I think he got in early, I think he was smart. They’re closer in age than a lot of relationships I know." Tyga then seemed to confirm their relationship on Instagram a month later.

Kylie's sister Khloe Kardashian also seemed to confirm they were dating when Complex asked her about the two: "I think at 16, I was probably fucking someone that was in their 20s, for sure. I wouldn’t say I was even dating, probably just sleeping with them. But again, Kylie is not a normal 17-year-old." Tyga also got a tattoo of Kylie's name.

We previously blogged that Sophie Vokes-Dudgeon posted on Us Weekly about "Kylie Jenner’s 17th Birthday Weekend: Party at Tyga’s, Justin Bieber Serenade, Dinner at Nobu" (August 11, 2014) 

Kylie Jenner’s 17th Birthday (Big) Penis Cake

Vokes-Dudgeon reported that 25-year-old Tyga hosted the bash for Kylie, which was attended by the likes of Justin Bieber where Tyga asked Bieber to serenade Kylie, Tyga purchased birthday party hats emblazoned with nymphet's photo, and he ordered a custom made cake for Kylie that was shaped like a (big) erect penis. 

After the festivities, the 17-year-old posted on her Instagram account: 

"Thank u everyone & T for the [large erect penis] cake & JB for singing happy bday to me. I love u guys."

In terms of Tyga and Kylie's eight-year age-gap, in Joe Lynch's Billboard piece "Khloe Kardashian Explains Why It’s Okay 17-Year-Old Kylie Is Dating 25-Year-Old Tyga", Khloe approved, because Kylie isn't a normal teen, and she's a "special case":

"Kylie is not a normal 17-year-old. You’re not gonna say, 'Hey, so what are you doing this weekend?' and have her say, 'Having a slumber party at my girlfriend’s' or 'Going to prom.' That’s not what Kylie does. Kylie is taking business meetings and bought her first house, or she’s going on a private plane with Karl Lagerfeld to take a meeting. That’s not even what people do in their 30s. It’s a rare circumstance, so let’s treat this as a special case.”

However, I did not blog that Khloe shared with Complex that when she was: "[...] 16 she was fucking someone that was in their 20s, for sure."

But, unlike the Kardashians and we can assume Kris Jenner, it appears that Emily Longeretta, a news editor at Hollywood Life agreed with Marder - at least when it came to the penis cake. Longeretta said, "But this cake is literally a penis on a cake! She's 17." 

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

WILD THINGS (1998): High School Girls and Guidance Counselor's Throuple

On the “90s Lolitas Volume 3: Wild Things [...] (Erotic 90’s, Part 19)” episode of the You Must Remember This podcast (October 9, 2023), Karina Longworth recapped Wild Things (1998), which we’ll partially relate with some added comments. 


Longworth narrated:


Columbia Pictures, a legacy Hollywood studio, released a movie about high school students having sex with an adult staff member at their school.  Released in March 1998 [...] Wild Things was a minor hit, grossing $30 million domestically on a $20 million budget. [Per the film’s Wikipedia page, the film made over $30 million internationally too.]


The adult staff member Longworth referenced was Mr. Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon), the guidance counselor and sailing coach at Florida’s Blue Bay High School, who was having sexual affairs with Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards) and Suzie Toller (Neve Campbell) - two nubile 18-year-old school girls. 


Longworth narrated:


The action of the film starts when sultry rich girl Kelly Van Ryan, played by Denise  Richards, tells [...] that the guidance counselor Sam raped her. Shortly thereafter Neve Campbell’s Susie, a goth burnout with a bad dye job who lives in a trailer, tells the cops [...]  that she was raped by the guidance counselor, too. Both girls recall  that their older assailant couldn’t finish the sex act, and negged them with a strange comment, the same but for one word. 


In terms of the neg, Suzie shared with the police that Mr. Lombardo said, “No little bitch can ever make me cum.” And Kelly told the police, “He said, ‘[...] no little girl can ever make me cum.’” 


Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards)

However, later in the film, while having (consensual) sex Mr. Lombardo, Kelly requested, “Say you love me.” Mr. Lombardo replied and demanded, “I love you. Now give me the line.” Kelly said, “No little girl can ever make me cum,” which turned out to not be true, because Kelly kindly reminded Mr. Lombardo that she was able to make him have an orgasm at the glades. 


And speaking of age-gap love, Suzie related that Kelly was “in love” with Mr. Lombardo and that he had been her “fantasy”.”


In a plot twist à la Priscilla Cummings’ What Mr. Mattero Did (Penguin Young Readers Group), Susie confessed that she and Kelly lied about being raped by Mr. Lombardo. Longworth narrated:


The case goes to trial [...] On cross examination, Susie’s story falls apart, and she admits that she and Kelly made up their accusations of rape. Kelly’s mom is then forced to pay Sam a hefty settlement, by liquidating a trust fund that her daughter was due to receive on the mom’s death. 


In What Mr. Mattero Did, three seventh-graders, Jenna, Suzanne and Claire, falsely informed their middle school principal that Mr. Mattero, the music teacher, had molested them. But why did Susie and Kelly falsely accuse Mr. Lombardo of rape? Longworth narrated:


Why would these teenagers make this up? The first “twist” of Wild Things comes after  this settlement, when Sam, Kelly and Susie meet in a motel room and reveal that they  were all in on it together, and they’re all expecting to share the $8.5 million payout Sam  received from Kelly’s mom. 


Before splitting the $8.5 million three ways, the age-gap throuple had a three-way. Interestingly, Kelly arrived at the rendezvous dressed like a nubile nymphet in a pleated school girl (mini) skirt, a white cotton top, and a pair of bobby socks under her Mary Janes. Why did John McNaughton, the director, and the costume designer decide to dress Denise Richards’ character that way? Per Longworth, the intention behind putting Kelly in “clothing and accessories associated with childhood” was to make Kelly look like Lolita. 


The trio celebrate with sex, and though the ensuing threesome scene [...] there are a couple of images in it that seem worth noting. Kelly wears a  pleated skirt, mary janes and bobby socks à la Lolita to this threesome, and McNaughton includes a seemingly straight-faced shot of her panties being removed from under the skirt while the socks and shoes stay on. We know by this point that the character is 18 [...] in costuming  the character as a schoolgirl the filmmakers seem to want you to imagine that she’s  younger. In that sense they got what they wanted. 


It is legally permissible for adults to have or imagine having sex with people who are over the age of 18, but when the sexualisation of those of-age women is comprised of clothing and accessories associated with childhood, does it really matter that the women are months beyond their 18th birthday? 


Connectedly, Longworth referenced “Schoolgirls Make Alligators Look Like Ingenues” (March 20, 1998) - Janet Maslin’s New York Times review of the film where Maslin wrote that Blue Bay High School had a “well-developed Lolita squad” with Kelly as the high school’s “vixenish” “nymphet extraordinaire”. 


Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards) and Suzie Toller (Neve Campbell) 

As typical for a  film with an age-gap theme or motif, Wild Things had Kelly and Suzie participate in multiple girl-on-girl scenes. For example, during the three-way in the motel room with Mr. Sam Lombardo, Kelly and Suzie kissed, and later in the film the school girls kissed and undressed - in a swimming pool. Longworth narrated: 


The porniest shot in the scene features a still-clothed Campbell pouring champagne on Richards’s naked breasts, in an image that feels very Showgirls-esque.


Another sex  scene, between Richards and Campbell, recalls Showgirls again–in its girl-on-girl  coupling, its over-the-top emotion and violence, and its setting in a swimming pool.


Interestingly, Longworth related that Roger Ebert, in his three-stars out of five review of the film, wrote that Denise Richards’ sex scene was: “[...] either gratuitous or indispensable [i.e., absolutely necessary] depending on your point of view.”  


Speaking of gratuitous (off camera) sex scenes, Kelly said that Mr. Lombardo fingered her - anally. She said, “[…] his hands were in my shorts. You know? From behind. His fingers. His fingers. They were in me. Both places. You know?” And while admiring a photograph that she had of Mr. Lombardo and Kelly having sex, Suzie said to Mr. Lombardo, “I can’t decide what came out better. That little straw up Kelly’s nose or that dildo shoved up her ass.”


Not to be outdone, Neve Campbell’s character was lauded too. Danielle Gibson wrote in her Glamour piece “Hear Me Out: Wild Things Is Surprisingly Feminist” (March 19, 2016) that: 


“Spoiled Floridian princess Kelly (Denise Richards) and drug-addled swamp priestess Suzie (Neve Campbell) are two of the most well-rounded, fascinating, and exciting characters to ever grace the screen.” Ever?


I won’t share the rest of the film’s shocking spoilers, but I will share Longworth’s shocking assertion that: “[...] few actual teenagers have the adult bodies of a Denise Richards or Sarah Michelle Gellar, let alone the self-possession and sexual maturity of the characters they played on screen.” Longworth narrated:


What was potentially dangerous about depicting teens having wild sex lives in these  movies [...] was that they sold the idea that 16-year-olds are essentially adults, when there is in fact a wide range of rates of development, and few actual teenagers have the adult bodies of a Denise Richards or Sarah Michelle Gellar, let alone the self-possession and sexual maturity of the characters they played on screen.  


I would imagine that Longworth read Less Than Zero, but maybe she opined that that’s fiction with an unreliable narrator. Or maybe Longworth hasn’t read Restless Virgins: Love, Sex, and Survival in Prep School or Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of [Teen] Raunch Culture or even American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers. But Longworth must have known about Sami Sheen, Denise Richards’s daughter, who started an OnlyFans account when she was 18-years-old. In June of 2022, the self-described sex worker posted the announcement on her Instagram account, which prompted Page Six to post: "Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen's daughter Sami, 18, joins OnlyFans".


However, Maslin wrote more accurately in her New York Times piece that Wild Things, a film that  Longworth narrated “[...] was successful enough in concept alone to spawn three direct-to video sequels [...]”, showed that: “[...] high school students are capable of grown-up chicanery [...]” [Emphasis added]


The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family)

Although, IRL and in fiction, most school based age-gap affairs occur between students and teachers; however, it's not uncommon for a counselor to be the object of a school girl's attention. For example, on the pilot of The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family), Adrian shared with a classmate that she had to decline a party invitation, because her mother was out of town and, consequently, she was going to take advantage of the opportunity to "drink beer and have [teen] sex".


The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family)

Subsequently, Adrian attempted to (indirectly) seduce Mr. Marc Molina, the new Grant High School guidance counselor, by (indirectly) informing him that she was sexually active. Adrian asked, "Are condoms still available in your office?" And it turned out that Grant High did provide condoms to nymphets, but no word on if the condoms were "mint-flavored condoms with no spermicide, [and] labeled ''ONLY for oral sex'' like at Hunter - a top high school on Manhattan's Upper East Side.


Unsurprisingly, Adrian wasn't the only nymphet who was attracted to Mr. Molina. For instance, Madison and Lauren were enthralled by Mr. Molina too. Madison shared with Amy that Mr. Molina was new, single and delicious. And Amy shared with Madison and Lauren that she had sex - on the second day of band camp.