From the NY TIMES to Netflix: Schoolgirl Sleepover Sex Stories (Part 4): Camp Cabins

Lolita (Italian translation)

In Lolita (Vintage Books\Random House, 1991), Lolita confessed to Humbert that she had pre-teen “sapphic diversions” with Elizabeth Talbot - Lolita’s tent-mate at summer camp. Nabokov wrote:

Her astounding tale started with an introductory mention of her tent-mate of the previous summer, at another camp, a “very select” one as she put it. That tent-mate (“quite a derelict character,” “half-crazy,” but a “swell kid”) instructed her in various manipulations. At first, loyal Lo refused to tell me her name.

“Well,” she said. “[...] her name was Elizabeth Talbot, she goes now to a swanky private school, her father is an executive.”

I recalled with a funny pang the frequency with which poor Charlotte [Lolita’s mother] used to introduce into party chat such elegant tidbits as “when my daughter was out hiking last year with the Talbot girl.”

I wanted to know if either mother learned of those sapphic diversions.

“Gosh no,” exhaled limp Lo mimicking dread and relief, pressing a falsely fluttering hand to her chest.

Hence, in addition to bedrooms, hotel rooms, and prep school dorm rooms, schoolgirl sleepover sex happens in camp cabins as well. For example, on the “Postcards from Europe” episode of the Hot Girl Talks podcast (Aug 18, 22 [YouTube]), Carly Weinstein, an influencer with 175K Instagram (IG) followers, informed her co-hosts, Halley Kate (246K IG followers) and Jazmyn “Jaz” Smith (147K IG followers), that part of going to summer camp is seeing “plenty of vaginas” “inside of them” “all sides of them”. Carly,

“If you went to camp, you’d know that you saw plenty of vaginas in a lifetime and probably the inside of them. And probably all sides of them. Because at camp, you just are, like, crazy. It’s just a thing. I don’t know, like, people who went to camp know. Just camp things.”

In “Reality Check From Young Voices”, a chapter in Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerney’s Slut: A Play and Guidebook for Combating Sexism and Sexual Violence (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2015), 17-year-old Danielle confessed that “lots of sexual firsts” happened at her “typical Jewish summer camp” like the filming (oral) sex tapes. Danielle shared:

“I go to this typical Jewish summer camp, where promiscuous behavior is practically encouraged and cultivated [...] with no parental supervision, there are lots of sexual firsts for everyone [...] There is one girl in particular, Georgia, who is really petite and very pretty [...] Josh and another boy coerced - basically forced - Georgia to give them blow jobs, while others filmed it on their phones.”

In Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham shared that when she was a teen camper, she could not stop staring at her summer camp counselor’s “tits”. Lena wrote:

[...] [I] couldn't stop eyeing everyone else, staring at their round asses as they dressed, the dusky hairs emerging from the bathing suits. “You are so bicurious!” Lena's camp counselor said after she caught Lena: “[...] watching her tits swing as she changed.”

The following summer, then-14-year-old Lena found her “truest love”. “[Johnny] was blond, from South Carolina, and just shy of twenty-two.” In her bunk, Lena fantasized about discarding her: “[...] clothes, approaching Johnny, and letting him put his hands all over [...]” her body.

On the “They’re Just Not That Into You...” episode of the Hot Girls Talk podcast (August 4, 22 [YouTube]), Halley shared with Carly and Jaz: “You can also pop your cherry [i.e., have an orgasm] by riding a fucking horse. One of my friends […] she literally told all of us when we were like 9-years-old, ‘Yeah, I popped my cherry by riding this horse.’”

For The Cut’s 2014 Summer Sex Week feature, Maureen O'Connor posted, in the True Stories section, “10 Awkward, Nostalgic Stories of Summer-Camp Sexual Awakenings” (July 7, 2014). The piece related: “ten people’s most vivid memories of summer-camp sex — and sex gone awry, and confused preteen discoveries, and other strangely nostalgic humiliations.”

In the first memory, “Fake Orgasms Sweep Horse Camp”, readers learned about “horsegasms”, which was when a Camp Rim Rock horseback rider had an orgasm via a horse. The quest to have horsegasms arose after Lauren Petersen, the “alpha girl” of the cabin and a New Yorker, shared with her cabin mates that she was getting: “‘tickling feelings’ while grinding on a Western saddle.” Consequently, Lauren’s cabin mates, including the then-11-year-old storyteller, went on a “craze[d]” quest to have a horsegasm.

When I was 11, there was a fake-orgasm craze at Camp Rim Rock’s horseback riding camp for girls. It started when Lauren Petersen asked if anyone else had “tickling feelings” while grinding on a Western saddle. Lauren was the alpha girl of my cabin. She was cool and tough and came from New York and had a Beastie Boys cassette [...] If Lauren Petersen felt tickles on horses, then feeling tickles on horses was cool. Soon everyone was feeling tickles, or trying to feel them, or faking them. It was like the Salem Witch Trials. I will never say whether my horsegasms were fake.

Cruel Intentions 2: Manchester Prep (2000)

On a related note: On episode 06 of Amazon Prime’s Cruel Intentions (2024), streamers learned from Cece that years before she matriculated at Manchester College, she broke her hymen on a “Gorgeous palomino named Lucky.” Cece’s confession may have been inspired by Cruel Intentions 2: Manchester Prep (2000) where Cherie Claymon, a freshman at Manchester Prep, was forced to have a horsegasm while posting in Central Park, which was all part of a plot by Kathryn, an upperclassman, to turn Cherie into the "premier slut of Manchester Prep." Kathryn commanded Cherie, “Up and down. Back and forth. Faster! Faster!” And Kathryn asked Cherie, “How does that feel?”

In “Sexual Shaving Rituals”, a submitter submitted that, as a form of seduction, she and her then-12-year-old cabin mates used to shave their legs in the open on the campgrounds. But when she was 13, as a form of seduction, a 16-year-old female camp counselor asked the 13-year-old and another camper to shave her vagina. Outside. On the porch of their cabin!

We always shaved our 12-year-old legs outside, where the boys could see, sitting on towels spread over the pavement that connected the girls’ camp to the boys’ camp. When I was 13, my counselor got me and another camper to shave her vag before she met up with her boyfriend. We did it outside on the porch, her lying down and us on either side of her, giggling.

In addition, the teen exhibitionist counselor used to tell sex stories in the cabin. In a bit of S&M, the teen sadist “dared” the girls to put Gold Bond on their vaginas. (One can safely infer that the counselor (regularly) found pleasure in putting Gold Bond on her vagina; hence, the referral.) Although she was straight, the counselor got a “perverse kick out of it”. And after the counselor discovered that the submitter’s “prepubescent tits” were being pawed behind the bunk bed, the counselor gave the camper comforting advice.

She was 16 and told us all her sex stories. She once dared several girls in my bunk to put Gold Bond on our vaginas. It was so cold that it stung, and I experienced a kind of sensitivity generally reserved for varsity S&M games. I think the counselor got a perverse kick out of it, even though she is straight. She is now a wedding planner.

Still, she gave me some good advice: When my prepubescent tits were getting squeezed like tiny stress balls during make-outs behind the bunk, my counselor said I should tell the boys, “Be gentle.”

In “The Girl Who Discovered Orgasms”, in a bit of a sleepover cabin sex plot twist, a submitter admitted that she had sex with the cabin! And, consequently, she had her first orgasm. "

I had my first orgasm at Jewish summer camp, the result of dry-humping against a cabin.

But someone must have seen her “dry-humping against a cabin”. Right? Subsequently, she lost her virginity at camp a few years later, and to commemorate the occasion, she had five orgasms that night, including one in the cabin’s shower.

A few years later, I lost my virginity at a summer camp on a kibbutz. I had sex five times that night, including in the shower, and came every time! Talk about getting off to a good (blessed?) start.

Liara Roux shared in her memoir, Whore of New York: A Confession (Repeater Books, 2021), that while 5th graders, she and the "very beautiful" Melissa had girl-on-girl sex at camp in the woods of the Catskills where they kissed, Liara put her breast in Melissa’s mouth, and Melissa put her finger into Liara. Roux wrote:

One day, when we were walking to whatever activity was next, she asked me if I wanted to skip it [...] As we got further away from the camp, she stepped off the trail. I followed her. We wandered through the trees, and I tripped over a rock hidden under the snow.

We got to a clearing and she plopped on the ground, then started making a snow angel. “What about your pants?” I asked. “Won’t they get wet?” [...] “They already are.” I blushed at the implication. Seeing my flushed face, she stood up, walked to me, and kissed me [...] I couldn’t hold myself back. I kissed her, putting my hands around her neck, pulling her in.

[...] I pressed myself against her and we fell in the snow [...] I rolled on top of her, kissed her again [...] She wiggled, unzipping her coat, unzipping mine, and our hands were on each other’s chests, grasping at softness. I kissed her neck; she moaned and put my breast in her mouth [...] After much maneuvering, she pulled off her glove and stuck her hand down my pants. The chill of her fingertips pressing into me.

We walked back to camp, our faces flushed.

And Lindsay shared with Vera Papisova in the Teen Vogue piece "23 Masturbation Stories: Girls Get Real About Self-Love" (AUGUST 4, 2020), which is a compilation of preteen and teen masturbation stories, that she had a "freaky camp friend" who indulged in self-love. Lindsey enjoyed masturbating at camp too, but she only wished that she had known that, besides her "freaky camp friend", other girls masturbated too. Lindsay shared:

"I wish I knew that other girls masturbate, too! And that no matter what way you do it, it's not weird! Most girls don't open up to their friends about that stuff until college, unless you have the occasional freaky camp friend." - Lindsay

From the NY TIMES to Netflix: Schoolgirl Sleepover Sex Stories (Part 1): Becca Moore, Miley Cyrus, Jessica Simpson and Julia Fox

From the NY TIMES to Netflix: Schoolgirl Sleepover Sex Stories (Part 2): Lola Kirke, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham

From the NY TIMES to Netflix: Schoolgirl Sleepover Sex Stories (Part 3): Restless Virgins | Zoe, Isabel, Annie, and Whitney

From the NY TIMES to Netflix: Schoolgirl Sleepover Sex Stories (Part 2): Lola Kirke, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham

Lola Kirke is an actress (Sinners, 2025 [Warner Bros. Pictures]) and country singer. Lola wrote in the memoir, Wild West Village (Simon & Schuster, 2025), that when she was 10-years-old, her 15-year-old sister Emi (Jemima Kirke [Girls, 2012 (HBO)]) asked Lola to pose in her “underwear, holding a [Marlboro Medium] cigarette”. Lola pleaded, “But I’m only ten, don’t you think-” Nonetheless, the risqué portrait was completed and hung, framed in gold, in the foyer of their West Village brownstone. Of the portrait, Lola wrote:

The naked ten-year-old smoking version of me hung framed in gold in our foyer forabout a decade, until we moved. [...] Our home was part house, part museum, curated expertly by my mother.

Lola related that throughout middle school, she had a friend “from down the street” named Tilly. Lola shared that during that time, she would dry hump Tilly, which Lola described as a game, where Lola fantasized that she was “an unspecified businesswoman in love with her boss [i.e., Tilly] and his son [i.e., Tilly]”. Lola:

All through elementary school, I was either an unspecified businesswoman in love with her boss and his son (my friend Tilly down the street played both), or a sort of simple country wife. While the former game involved a lot of dry humping [...]

After Lola related that she used to play “an assortment of sex games with Barbies”, she wrote that she and Tilly exhausted “most” of their “playdates unknowingly enacting the plots of bad pornos”. Interestingly, Lola wrote that she didn’t really consider Tilly to be a friend. Why? Because Lola and Tilly were “essentially fucking”.

In addition to Tilly, Lola shared that she and a girlfriend “made out once behind the port-a-potties at a wedding”, and, like Julia and Ella, Lola and Erin played: “an eighth-grade game of spin the bottle”.

A year after discovering her father’s infidelity, which was when Lola was in the 7th grade, during the summers in East Hampton, Lola started spending more time with Bettina Richards Goldblatt. Bettina’s home cost “Twelve million dollars,” which caused Lola to write: “While we were wealthy, we weren’t Bettina wealthy.”

While in East Hampton, Bettina would pay Lola compliments. For example, Bettina complimented Lola on her lips, because, per Bettina, Lola had “DSL” (i.e., “dick-sucking lips”). However, per Bettina, she had “nicer eyes and hair” than Lola. Interestingly, Shayla, Bettina’s nanny, purchased Bettina a bra that “generously gathered her chest fat into breast-like mounds.” (In “Oblivion”, a post on Medium (Feb 7, 2022), Lola wrote that Bettina “slept in a sports bra to prevent sagging”.) Of Bettina’s breast-like mounds”, Lola wrote: “She was becoming so grown up, just like I wanted to be and secretly felt I already was.”

One summer in East Hampton, after Lola “wandered upstairs to discover a trail of girls from Bettina’s day camp lined up outside her bathroom door”, Bettina introduced Lola to the pleasures of (pre-teen) masturbation (via a waterfall).

“You guys,” I announced myself, “what are you doing?”

“Shhhh!” they all hissed through retainers I envied.

Suddenly, Bettina flung the door open. “Ugh! I’m so refreshed!”

“ `Cause you showered?” I asked, confused.

“No, idiot.” She grabbed my wrist and yanked me into the bathroom, then lay down in the tub. Spreading her legs wide on either side of the faucet, she turned it on, letting the water spill into her crotch. “But you don’t want it too hot!” she admonished.

Within seconds, her hips were pulsing in a strange rhythm, and she was laughing maniacally [...] [Lola wrote in “Oblivion” that Bettina “began to moan.”]

Bettina told Lola that she had learned the masturbation technique from “Samantha from Sex and the City”. And in “Oblivion”, Lola wrote that she learned from one of the girls that Bettina’s masturbation technique was called a waterfall. “Bettina’s doing a waterfall.” And Lola elaborated in “Oblivion” that the trail of girls were waiting for their turn to masturbate, because after Bettina grabbed Lola’s wrist and yanked her into the bathroom, the girls protested, “No fair! She’s cutting!”

After dinner that evening, Lola told Harry, a boy one year her senior, about Bettina masturbating, to which Harry exclaimed, “Dude. Masturbation is THE BEST. You gotta try it.” Consequently, Lola took Harry’s advice and lowered herself into her “antique bathtub”. The water “pressure had only two crude modes: off and full on.” With her “legs spread and lying back” and a few seconds after she turned the water on, her body “cramped and seized until it entered a fugue state.” Within minutes, Lola was “at it again.” Lola wrote in “Oblivion”, that “[...] after a few moments [of masturbating], I began to feel as if I had been murdered. A sweet, beautiful murder.”

And just like Bettina, Lola was addicted to having orgasms. So much so that Lola started masturbating via the jets in Bettina’s pool. And Lola wrote that when she was alone, she would use her hand, and she even masturbated while watching films. Lola

I spent the rest of the summer either doing exactly this or figuring out ways I could. My interest in Bettina’s snacks was quickly replaced by an intense romance with the jets in her pool. Pretty much any time I was alone or shrouded in darkness, my hand was in my pants. Even during films like What a Girl Wants and The Life of David Gale. I was sick. An addict.

In “Oblivion”, of her addiction, Lola elaborated: “I spent hours doing what I later learned was fucking myself into oblivion. I imagined what it would be like to [sic] it with somebody else.” And Lola wrote that, even though she was only 12, her “sex drive was an 11 out of 10.”

Liza Esquibias posted on People “Chelsea Handler Is Ready to Spill 'Lots of Tea' in New Netflix Comedy Special The Feeling” where Esquibias wrote: “[…] while some topics she mentions are more controversial than pickleball, Handler tells PEOPLE she doesn’t regret a thing.” In the piece, the comedian confessed to Esquibias, “I shared lots of tea in this special, just when I thought there was no more tea to spill.” Since Chelsea is featured in this essay, it would only make sense that the tea that she spilled on Netflix included schoolgirl sleepover sex and (group) masturbation.

The Feeling, 2025 (Netflix), the title of the comedy special, is in reference to a pre-teen group masturbation session that Chelsea participated in during a back-to-school sleepover at Jodi Repati’s house in New Jersey. Chelsea related that when she was 8-years-old, she broke her arm at her family’s Martha’s Vineyard summer house. Chelsea described breaking her arm as a pivotal moment in her young life, because after she returned home from the hospital, she mistakenly “slammed” her cast down on top of her “Pikachu” (i.e., her vagina). Consequently, that night, Chelsea discovered how to masturbate. Chelsea said,

“I was like, ‘Ow,’ you know. And then it slid down, like, two more centimeters, and I was like, ‘Brrr’. What is that zone?” And I went out that night and found out exactly what that zone was.”

When Chelsea returned home to New Jersey that fall, Jodi Repati, Chelsea’s best friend, invited Chelsea to a back-to-school sleepover where “nine 8-year-old girls” were “gonna get The Feeling.” In other words, masturbate “face down in their sleeping bags”.

Jodi, “We’re having a back-to-school sleepover at my house on Friday night at 7:30. She goes, ‘Everyone’s gonna come over, and we’re all gonna get The Feeling.’”

Chelsea, “I walk in, and there are nine 8-year-old girls face down in their sleeping bags, just going like this. I was like, ‘Let’s fucking go!’” [Chelsea simulated masturbating vigorously.]

Chelsea joked that she masturbated insatiably and vigorously for 12 hours straight that night. Hyperbole? So much so that when she left Jodi’s house, Chelsea had rug burns on her 8-year-old forehead, and she was dehydrated. Chelsea,

“I couldn’t get enough of myself! I showed up at that sleepover at 7:30, and I didn’t get up from that position until 7:30 a.m […] I left that sleepover, I had rug burns on my forehead. I was so thirsty and dehydrated from sweating so much into my pajamas. I was like, ‘Does anyone have a Capri-Sun, please?’”

Chelsea clarified that she didn’t know that what she was doing was referred to as masturbation. She only knew that it felt “amazing”. Chelsea,

“And when you’re that young, you’re 8 or 9-years-old, you’re masturbating, you’re not really – You don’t even know what you’re doing is masturbating. You’re just like, ‘This feels amazing. Like, why didn’t anyone tell me about it.’”

In addition to using her hand to masturbate, Chelsea used a wall, her banana-seat bicycle, and a ruler during 8th grade math class. And she masturbated with a ladle during Thanksgiving dinner, which caused Chelsea to faint - at the dinner table.

The Wall

For further clarification, Chelsea said that while masturbating, she didn’t make direct contact with her Pikachu and that “thicker material” was best for optimal pleasure – even as thick as a wall. Chelsea,

“You’re not making direct contact with your Pikachu, you know? Like, you want a thicker material. Like, the thicker, the better […] You want, like, a wall. You see a corner, and you’re like, ‘I’m gonna fucking get you.’”

Banana-Seat Bicycle

Chelsea, an insatiable masturbator, would ride a pothole after school for almost an hour upon her banana-seat bicycle. Chelsea,

“And when no one says anything to you, like, ‘Hey, stop jerking off, you fucking pig.’ You don’t think that anyone even knows what you’re doing; so, I just did it all the time. I’d come home from school. I had a banana-seat bicycle. Now we know what those were for […] I’d go on little errands with my fake family that I created […] I would take my banana-seat bicycle, I would hit a pothole, and just fuckin’ ride it for, like, 30 minutes.” [Chelsea simulated masturbating upon the banana-seat bicycle.]

“My neighbor called my mom, ‘Your daughter’s been in our pothole in front of your living room window for 45 minutes.”

Math Class

During her elementary school math class, via a ruler, Chelsea climaxed - more than once. Chelsea,

“I’d go into school. I’d go into math class, and they had those desks with the apertures, you know, the openings on the desk and I’d have a Trapper Keeper in the desk and a ruler in the Trapper Keeper. And I would take the ruler, and I could always do one spin. [Chelsea simulated masturbating with a ruler.] I’d call it ‘a spin’. I’m like, ‘Do I have time for a spin?’ [Chelsea simulated masturbating with a ruler.] And I would – I would take the ruler, and I’d be like, “Brrr. You know?” [Chelsea simulated masturbating with a ruler.]

“And masturbating as a young person is just like masturbating as an adult. You do one round. You climax.”

“And then 30 minutes later, you’re like, ‘One more time! One more time!’ So, I would do it. I would think I’d be done, but I couldn’t resist myself. I couldn’t get enough. So, I would take the ruler back out, and then completely lose my shit, you know, during the class.”

Thanksgiving Dinner

To Chelsea’s dismay, after she fainted while masturbating with a ladle during Thanksgiving dinner, her mother advised her to masturbate in the privacy of her room, but her grandfather referred to Chelsea as a “little whore”, and her brother shared with the family that Chelsea masturbated “all the time.”

Grandfather to father, “So sorry about your little whore daughter.”

Chelsea’s mother to Chelsea, “Sweetie, that’s something that you wanna do in the privacy of your own room.”

Chelsea’s brother to the family, “She does it all the time!”

Interestingly, Chelsea opined that “masturbating as a young person is just like masturbating as an adult”.

During her Netflix comedy special, in addition to spilling the tea about her (group) pre-teen masturbation, Chelsea related to the audience and streamers that when she was 11-years-old, she had a girl-on-girl sexual affair with Martha McIntosh, whom Chelsea would visit during her summer break at a deli on Main Street in Edgartown, where Martha worked. Of Martha, Chelsea said, “And I want you to picture Amy Winehouse as an 11-year-old […] I was attracted to her right away.”

The attraction was mutual, because Martha invited Chelsea to her house, where Martha gave Chelsea Coronas, Camel Lights, and Martha asked Chelsea, “Hey, do you wanna go into my closet and take your pants down?” Chelsea replied, “Definitely. Like, ‘What’s next?”

Subsequently, Chelsea pulled her pants down before Martha performed oral sex on a flabbergasted Chelsea for about 15 minutes. Chelsea,

“And we go into Martha McIntosh’s closet. I pull my pants down, and she goes down on me for, like, 15 minutes. And I could not believe my good fortune.”

Just like for masturbation, Chelsea had an insatiable appetite for teen oral sex; however, Chelsea said that’s why she never had a daughter. Chelsea,

“You know. I went there every day. She’d go down on me. It was amazing [...] And that’s why I don’t have a daughter. So, I don’t have some horny 11-year-old that [sic] needs to be eaten out every 15 minutes.”

Eventually, Martha concluded that it wasn’t always better to give than to receive - oral sex. Chelsea,

“And then it was the end of the summer. I went to Martha’s every day – obviously. And it was the end of the summer, and we were in her closet, and she’s going down on me. And then I’m finishing my drink and my cigarette, and she pops her head up and she said, ‘Okay, you know, it’s your turn.’”

Ivanka Trump, who is most famous for being the daughter of Donald Trump, reminded us that schoolgirl sleepovers can happen in hotel rooms, too.

Vanessa Grigoriadis wrote in her New York Magazine cover story “Ivanka Aeternum” (The Cut\New York Magazine, 2019) that Ivanka threw a wild birthday party in middle school that included topless prep schoolgirls in limos and nude nymphets watching porn in Atlantic City's Taj Mahal hotel. Grigoriadis wrote:

Ivanka was always a good student, but she was no kind of good girl. For her birthday party in junior high, she invited about 20 girls from Chapin, her Upper East Side all-girls school, to the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, all of them crammed into stretch limos without chaperones[...] The girls acted crazy: flashing people out the windows, whipping off bras and putting them on the limos’ antennae. In the hotel suite, they rented porn and ran around naked. Classmates who remained at home heard about the trip in excruciating detail and felt horribly left out.

Grigoriadis did not say if Ivanka participated in the prep schoolgirl debauchery at the Taj Mahal; however, Emily Jane Fox related in her New York Times Bestseller Born Trump: Inside America's First Family (HarperCollins, 2019) that, while middle-students at Chapin, Ivanka and a classmate flashed a hot dog vendor from their prestigious school’s classroom window. Of Ivanka, Fox wrote:

"She was in class. And Chapin is right up against a park on the Upper East Side - on the far east side [...] So, she was in a third floor [8th grade] classroom and looked down into the park and there was a hot dog vendor. And she and her girlfriend[s] flashed the hot dog vendor from the school window."

Lysandra Ohrstrom who took part in “flashing the hot dog man” elaborated on the incident in her Vanity Fair piece "Ivanka Trump Was My Best Friend Now She's MAGA Royalty" (November 17, 2020) In the piece, Ohrstrom elaborated that, due to Ivanka’s encouragement, not two but about five schoolgirls simultaneously flashed the hotdog vendor. Ohrstrom:

"One of the earliest memories I have of Ivanka from before we were friends is when [...] she goaded me and a few other girls into flashing our breasts out the window of our classroom in what has since been labelled the “flashing the hot dog man” incident in Chapin lore. Ivanka had basically been the ringleader, but she pleaded her innocence to the headmistress and got off scot-free. The rest of us were suspended."

[Disclaimer: To this day, Ivanka (openly) denies any involvement in the Chapin middle-school “flashing the hot dog man” incident.]

Lena Dunham related in her memoir, Not That Kind of Girl (Random House, 2014), that on a Saint Ann's eighth-grade class trip to Washington D.C., some of Lena's 14-year-old classmates: “[...] decided to go totally gay. It started with some light kissing on the [hotel] bed, then Jessica was topless and shaking her tits, clutching her own nipples and wagging them mercilessly in our faces.”

And Hallie Batchelder, a New York City-based influencer, shared on the “The Hamptons Confessional” episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast (Aug 28, 2024) that when she was 15, her mother caught her having anal sex in the hotel room during a family vacation in Aruba. Hallie (over) shared:

“Wait, when I was 15, my mom walked in. I mean, [I was] getting fucked in the ass on a [hotel] pull-out bed in Aruba.”

From the NY Times to Netflix: Schoolgirl Sleepover Sex Stories (Part 1): Becca Moore, Miley Cyrus, Jessica Simpson and Julia Fox

From the NY TIMES to Netflix: Schoolgirl Sleepover Sex Stories (Part 1): Becca Moore, Miley Cyrus, Jessica Simpson and Julia Fox

In the New York Times THE ETHICIST piece “My Daughter Is Having Sex with Her Best Friend. Must I Tell Her Mom?” (March 22, 2022), a mother needed advice, because her mid-teen daughter was having girl-on-girl sex during sleepovers with her best friend. 

Here's part of the question submitted to THE ETHICIST:

My daughter is in a newly romantic relationship with her best friend, who is also female. Both are in their midteens. My daughter recently confided in me that they have had sex. She insists, however, that I am not allowed to tell the friend’s mother, because the mother wouldn’t let them have sleepovers or hang out as much. My ex-husband is the one who hosts the sleepovers, and he looks the other way when they are in the bedroom, reasoning that (or so my daughter tells me), “It’s OK because there are no penises involved.” [...] Are my ex-husband’s actions egregious? Name Withheld

The mother’s question reminded me of Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Free Press\Simon & Schuster, 2005). Levy related in the book that on the thirtieth anniversary of Nancy Friday’s “international bestselling collection” My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies (Trident Press, 1973), a panel discussion titled “Sex and What Women Want Now” was held at the 92nd Street YMHA in Manhattan. The panel discussion, which included Candace Bushnell - the author of Sex and the City, was moderated by Norman Pearlstein, Friday’s husband and the editor-in-chief of Time Inc. Levy related that during the panel, Friday opined that as long as a [young] woman reaches orgasm, it doesn’t matter whom she thinks about while masturbating or during sex. Friday asked the panel discussion attendees,

“Doesn’t everyone here agree that it doesn’t really matter? If it takes you where you want to go, if it helps you reach orgasm, does it matter who you’re thinking about?” 

In My Secret Garden, a variety of fantasies were shared, which began when most of the fantasizers were between the ages of 7 and 11. For example, Alexandra fantasized about having an affair with her high school teacher. She stated emphatically: "[...] I'm sure it would not be a fantasy if I gave him a little encouragement." And Stephanie fantasized about very young girls being raped "by a mad professor". In Stephanie’s fantasy, the professor decided whom he was going to rape by examining "their sexual apparatus". However, in addition to their fantasies, some women shared what they brought to life during schoolgirl sleepovers. 

Clarissa recalled that she and her friend were caught masturbating with candles - when they were 12. Marina shared that she began to be aware of men at the age of 9 or 10 and thought about them while she masturbated; however, Marina only had "a vague idea of what lovemaking was" until she met her friend, a 10-year-old Mediterranean girl. Marina and the Mediterranean used to sit at opposite ends of the bathtub and pour warm water from a Russian silver teapot over their clitorises while caressing their bodies "with infallible, instinctive verve." Celia confessed that when she was about 8, she used to bully her: "[...] friend into playing games where we had to pretend to take off our clothes and the 'wicked man' would make us walk in the street [...]" In addition, Celia said that when she was 10, she wanted to be a stripper and that she had "intimate contact" with her girlfriend. And when Alison was 14, she had an "[...] unusual relationship with a close girlfriend". In the unusual relationship, Alison's girlfriend would dress Alison in a sexy bikini made of chiffon scarves. Then Alison's girlfriend pretended that she was a "rowdy seaman" before she “raped” Allison.

Since reading that THE ETHICIST piece and My Secret Garden, while doing research for a second edition and a new book, I’ve come across a number of actresses, singers, and influencers, whom, just like the women in  My Secret Garden, have shared their schoolgirl sleepover sexual exploits via Youtube podcasts, memoirs, (non-fiction) books, and even via a Netflix comedy special. 

Becca Moore

Becca Moore is a podcaster and influencer with over one million followers on TikTok. On the “My First Time (with a woman)” episode of her Becca Moore podcast (YouTube, August 27, 2024), Becca shared that during middle school sleepovers, she and her friends would “sit in a circle and all make out with each other.” Becca,

“Like, honestly, in middle school we used to, like, sit in a circle and all make out with each other. And no boys would be around. I don't really know why we were doing that, but I did love those sleepovers. That was fun.”

By high school, Becca was still making out with girls during sleepovers, but schoolboys attended the sleepovers too. Becca, 

“And then when I got to high school, we would have sleepovers and make out, like, play spin the bottle, but boys would be there. And it was kind of, like, a little bit, I will say, the high school one, was a little bit performative.”

“I think that we were not really, like, turned on. We were only doing it because boys were watching, and I think we thought that it was hot for them to watch - at least from my perspective. I think, I was more so thinking about the boys than the girls.”

Thus, at least for Becca, making out with other high school girls during sleepovers wasn’t (only) for pleasure, it was additionally done to provide entertainment for the schoolboys. 

Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus, the Grammy award-winning singer and actress, shared with Alex Cooper on the Call Her Daddy podcast “Miley Cyrus-Call Her Daddy Interview” (YouTube, August 13, 2020) that when she was a pre-teen, she had a girl-on-girl orgy, which Cooper referred to as “amazing”.

Miley, "Yeah, when I was like 11 or 12 [...] I got most of my girlfriends to hook up with me."

Alex, "That is such an amazing [thing]. That's amazing!"

Miley, "The first time I ever hooked up with anyone was with a girl. Two of them."

Alex, "And did you go past first base?"

Miley, "Yeah! Oh yeah!"

Alex, "Miley's like, 'Of course. Oh my God. Absolutely.'"

Since Miley admitted that she went “past first base” during sleepovers, we can confidently infer that Miley’s hookups were more involved than Becca’s ( i.e., Miley and her girlfriends did more than kiss during sleepovers).

Jessica Simpson

Jessica Simpson, the singer, actress, and fashion designer, wrote in her memoir, Open Book (Dey Street Books\ HarperCollins, 2020), that when she was between the ages of 6 and 12, she and a family friend would have girl-on-girl sex during sleepovers. Jessica wrote that, like Miley Cyrus, her family friend would initiate sex. For example, during the night, foreplay consisted of tickling Jessica’s back. Eventually, they started having sex during the daytime while using a closet for privacy. Jessica’s friend would even watch Jessica shower. Jessica wrote:

It would start with tickling my back [...] Eventually, it wasn't just at nighttime. She would get me to go into a closet with her, or just find a way to linger until we were alone. It got to the point that she would sneak into the bathroom to watch me shower.

In an interview with People “Jessica Simpson on Confronting Her Abuser: 'It Was Extremely Painful and Still Is'” (January 29, 2020), Jessica clarified that even though her family friend initiated the sex, Jessica admitted that she “allowed it to happen”; thus, Jessica felt “very shameful”, because she was complicit. Jessica confessed to People, 

“I allowed it to happen, so I felt that I was as much of the abuser as the abused. So I was very shameful during that time, from 6 to 12 years old.”

Curiously, Jessca is the only celebrity slash influencer who expressed shame about her girl-on-girl sleepover activities and considered it to be sexual abuse. But just as curiously, out of all the words in her 416-page memoir, Jessca used the schoolgirl sleepover sex imagery to promote the book. 

Julia Fox

Julia Fox, the actress (Uncut Gems, 2019 [A24]) and model, related in her memoir, Down the Drain (Simon & Schuster, 2023), that in 2001, when she was an 11-year-old 6th grader at East Side Middle School in Manhattan, she and Ella, whom Julia described as a straight A student with “beautiful thick auburn hair and big green eyes”, would “roll joints with a filter, ‘like the French’” and they would kiss “like the French too.” As an excuse to kiss, Julia and Ella played spin the bottle and seven minutes in heaven. Julia wrote: 

We play[ed] games like spin the bottle and seven minutes in heaven [i.e., in the closet kissing], and then we pretend[ed] like it didn’t happen.

Unlike Jessica Simpson, Julia and Ella didn’t appear to be ashamed of their pre-teen sexual exploits; however, Julia wrote that Ella insisted that their girl-on-girl kissing was “practice for the real deal”. In other words, Ella assured Julia that they were not middle school lesbians or bisexual. Consequently, Julia wrote that she sensed that Ella simply enjoyed kissing girls. 

Eventually, Julia befriended Rose - a rich classmate. “Penthouse on Fifth Avenue rich.” Julia loved sneaking into Rose’s penthouse after hours, where the schoolgirls would: “[...] sit cross-legged, facing each other on her floor, and pass each other love poems.” Sometimes Julia and Rose would: “[...] massage each other with oils”, “dribble hot wax over each other’s bodies’ or, like Marina and the Mediterranean girl in My Secret Garden, Julia and Rose would take “baths together”. While the schoolgirls bathed, Julia wrote that she couldn't stop staring at Rose's “enormous double-D breasts, covered in thick purple stretch marks.” 

When Rose was grounded, Julian befriended Alice, whom “lost a bunch of weight using diet pills [...] [and] started tanning and wearing makeup.” Julia and Alice had a crush on Tommy, whom invited them to his house for a sleepover via AIM: “My mom is out of town, you guys should come over!” After a “few beers”, Tommy handed Julia and Alice a pair of boxers, and they squeezed into Tommy’s “tiny twin bed”, where, after Julia put Tommy’s penis into her mouth, he immediately ejaculated all over her hair. Consequently, Julia was “half thrilled, [and] half horrified.” Julia:

I quietly slide under the blanket until I’m face-to-face with IT. Wow, it’s beautiful. I put my hands around it and grip it tightly with my sweaty palms. I move my hands up and down, his body twitching at my every move. I stick my tongue out and taste the tip, as if sampling an ice cream cone. It doesn’t taste bad! I put my mouth over it, and before I can even start sucking, he ejaculates all over my hair. I shoot up from under the covers and run to the bathroom. I begin scrubbing the gelatinous goop out of my hair, half thrilled, half horrified.

Days later, Julia graduated from middle school; however, before she started elementary school, she lost her virginity to 23-year-old Giovanni - in the middle of the street in Italy. But that story is for another post. 

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Lola Kirke's WILD WEST VILLAGE: Schoolgirl Sleepover Hookups and the Allure of Older Men!

 

Lola Kirke is an actress (Sinners, 2025), country singer, and, most recently, the author of her memoir, Wild West Village (2025/Simon & Schuster). Lola shared in the memoir that when she was 10-years-old, her 15-year-old sister Emi (Jemima Kirke) asked Lola to pose in her “underwear, holding a [Marlboro Medium] cigarette”. 

Lola pleaded, “But I’m only ten, don’t you think-” 

Nonetheless, the risqué portrait was completed and hung, framed in gold, in the foyer of their West Village brownstone. Of the portrait, Lola wrote:

The naked ten-year-old smoking version of me hung framed in gold in our foyer for about a decade, until we moved. [...] Our home was part house, part museum, curated expertly by my mother. 

Lola wrote that throughout middle school, she had a friend “from down the street” named Tilly. Lola shared that throughout middle school, she would dry hump Tilly, which Lola described as a game, where Lola fantasized that she was “an unspecified businesswoman in love with her boss [i.e., Tilly] and his son [i.e., Tilly]”.

All through elementary school, I was either an unspecified businesswoman in love with her boss and his son (my friend Tilly down the street played both), or a sort of simple country wife. While the former game involved a lot of dry humping [...] 

In addition, after Lola shared that she used to play “an assortment of sex games with Barbies”, she wrote that she and Tilly exhausted “most” of their “playdates unknowingly enacting the plots of bad pornos”. Interestingly, Lola wrote that she didn’t really consider Tilly to be a friend. Why? Because Lola and Tilly were “essentially fucking”.

In addition, in terms of (pre) teen girl-on-girl affairs, Lola shared that she and a girlfriend “made out once behind the port-a-potties at a wedding”, and she and Erin played: “an eighth-grade game of spin the bottle”.

Lola related that when she was a child, her family spent their summers, specifically “[...] Augusts topless on private beaches, doused in tanning oil (no SPF), [we] were heathens.” Thus, unsurprisingly, while at sleepaway camp, a fellow camper put the following note in the “Warm and Fuzzy” jar: “Lola walks around naked.”

At her sister’s Sweet Sixteen, Lola “danced all night in Mary Janes and a ripped slip dress a few sizes too big.” Consequently, the straps of the slip dress “kept falling, baring” Lola’s “flat chest to the rest of the party.” Of her pre-teen public nudity, Lola wrote: “But what did I care?”

A year after discovering her father’s infidelity, which was when Lola was in the 7th grade, Lola started spending more time with Bettina Richards Goldblatt during the summers in East Hampton. Bettina’s home cost “Twelve million dollars,” which caused Lola to write: While we were wealthy, we weren’t Bettina wealthy. 

“Oblivion” MEDIUM (Feb 7, 2022)

While in East Hampton, Bettina would pay Lola compliments. For example, Bettina complimented Lola on her lips, because, per Bettina, Lola had “DSL” (i.e., “dick-sucking lips”). However, per Bettina, she had “nicer eyes and hair” than Lola. Interestingly, Shayla, Bettina’s nanny, purchased Bettina a bra that “generously gathered her chest fat into breast-like mounds.” (In “Oblivion”, a post on Medium (Feb 7, 2022), Lola wrote that Bettina “slept in a sports bra to prevent sagging”.) Of Bettina’s breast-like mounds”, Lola wrote: “She was becoming so grown up, just like I wanted to be and secretly felt I already was.”

One summer in East Hampton, after Lola “wandered upstairs to discover a trail of girls from Bettina’s day camp lined up outside her bathroom door”, Bettina introduced Lola to the pleasures of (teen) masturbation (via a waterfall). 

“You guys,” I announced myself, “what are you doing?”

“Shhhh!” they all hissed through retainers I envied.

[Per “Oblivion”, Lola learned from one of the girls, “Bettina’s doing a waterfall.”]

Suddenly, Bettina flung the door open. “Ugh! I’m so refreshed!”

“ `Cause you showered?” I asked, confused.

“No, idiot.” She grabbed my wrist and yanked me into the bathroom, then lay down in the tub. Spreading her legs wide on either side of the faucet, she turned it on, letting the water spill into her crotch. “But you don’t want it too hot!” she admonished.

Within seconds, her hips were pulsing in a strange rhythm, and she was laughing maniacally [...] [Lola wrote in “Oblivion” that Bettina “began to moan.”]

Bettina had learned the masturbation technique from “Samantha from Sex and the City”. And, by the way, per “Oblivion”, the trail of girls were waiting for their turn to masturbate, because after Bettina grabbed Lola’s wrist and yanked her into the bathroom, the girls protested, “No fair! She’s cutting!”

After dinner that evening, Lola told Harry, a boy one year her senior, about Bettina masturbating, to which Harry exclaimed, “Dude. Masturbation is THE BEST. You gotta try it.” Lola took Harry’s advice and lowered herself into her “antique bathtub”. The water “pressure had only two crude modes: off and full on.” With her “legs spread and lying back” and a few seconds after she turned the water on, her body “cramped and seized until it entered a fugue state.” Within minutes, Lola was “at it again.” Lola wrote in “Oblivion”, that “[...] after a few moments [of masturbating], I began to feel as if I had been murdered. A sweet, beautiful murder.

And just like Bettina, Lola was addicted to having orgasms. Lola even started masturbating via the jets in Bettina’s pool. When Lola was alone, she would use her hand. Lola even masturbated while watching films. Lola wrote:

I spent the rest of the summer either doing exactly this or figuring out ways I could. My interest in Bettina’s snacks was quickly replaced by an intense romance with the jets in her pool. Pretty much any time I was alone or shrouded in darkness, my hand was in my pants. Even during films like What a Girl Wants and The Life of David Gale. I was sick. An addict.

In “Oblivion”, of her addiction, Lola elaborated: “I spent hours doing what I later learned was fucking myself into oblivion. I imagined what it would be like to [sic] it with somebody else.” And Lola wrote that despite the fact that she was only 12, her “sex drive was an 11 out of 10.” 

In the 6th grade, Lola enrolled in the SoHo Child Actor’s Studio and soon after, Dina, the studio’s teacher, became Lola’s manager. In an effort to get an agent, Dina had Lola memorize a contemporary monologue. Lola wrote: “The monologue she selected was from a Tennessee Williams one-act play.” To Lola’s dismay, the monologue was of a child prostitute. 

Initially, Lola’s career “went nowhere”. Consequently, she had to “hone” her “skills in plays at school and camp”. However, to Lola’s dismay, despite being a preteen, she was “cast as even more ladies of the night”:

A Thai streetwalker in the ensemble of Chess.

Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s sex slave in the middle school’s Greek festival

“Mozart’s loose wife in Amadeus.”

“The silent, philandering one in Strindberg’s The Stronger.”

“[A] pregnant teenager in a play about Troubles in Ireland.”

By the end of middle school, Lola had secured her “very first screen test.” But she had nothing to wear “that would pass for a “regular kid”, because Emi had been dressing Lola “for years” in miniskirts and fishnet stockings. (Lola lost the part to Kristen Stewart.)

In addition to (pre) teen nudity, (pre) teen girl-on-girl hookups, and (pre) teen masturbation, a recurring motif in Lola’s memoir is age-gap relationships. 

Lola shared that when she and her sisters were in their youth, at one of her family’s legendary Christmas parties, one of her sisters offered David Bowie her hand as an ashtray; however, surprisingly, Bowie declined.

I wrote surprisingly, because I previously related that Nikki McWatters wrote in the Huffington Post piece “Predatory Teenage Girls” (December 13, 2012) that “Lori Maddox, a famous teenage groupie from LA, is alleged to have lost her virginity to David Bowie at the age of 13. [And s]he was Jimmy Page's steady girlfriend while still underage." But in a Thrillist post titled "I Lost My Virginity to David Bowie, Confessions of a 70s Groupie" (Nov 3, 2015), Maddox stated that she was actually 15 when Bowie "de-virginized" her, which she described as a "beautiful" event.

In terms of requited age-gap relationships, Mino (Domino Kirke), Lola’s then-15-year-old older sister, had a brief affair with a movie star. During the affair, Mino “fled” with the “movie star via his private jet.” However, after a “stern call” from Simon Kirke, Mino’s father, the movie star returned Mino “just in time for her Sweet Sixteen”. Lola wrote that the Sweet Sixteen was “celebrity packed”, but that Mino’s movie star was “banned from the event, [however] he sent sixteen dozen roses in his stead.”

Simon Kirke, in addition to being the father of Lola, Emi, and Mino, is the co-founder of the rock group Bad Company. On the “Nancy Spungen” episode of The C-Word podcast (July 8, 2021), Lena Dunham and Alissa Bennet said that 16-year-old Spungen bragged that she had sex with every member of Bad Company but that she only gave hand jobs (simultaneously) to two members of the rock band Aerosmith. As we wrote earlier, Lola wrote that when she was in the 7th grade, she “discovered a thread of secret emails” on her father’s computer, which revealed to her that “on the road, he led a double life”.

The Strokes' Julian Casblancas

Despite Lola's age, Emi appeared to have a thing for Lola and smoking. One evening while hanging out in the hot tub on the Amagansett estate of a “gorgeous” pre-teen “heir to a vast tabloid fortune”, 17-year-old Emi “slinked”, topless, into the hot tub with the heir’s older brother and asked, “Do you smoke?’ Lola replied, “No. We’re twelve.” “But the Strokes smoke,” Emi said. Consequently, 12-year-old Lola “urgently” reached for the cigarette, because she “loved Julian Casblancas” - the then-24-year-old lead singer of The Strokes. (By the 10th grade, Lola’s mother would “dangle a Marlboro Light before” her, and “sometimes”, they smoked together.)

Vincent Gallo

One school day, Lola mentioned at the dinner table that she needed help with her ninth-grade term paper on Charles Manson. Consequently, Emi exclaimed, “You have to interview Gustava [Vincent Gallo]!” Emi knew Vincent Gallo well, because when she was an (approximately) 18-year-old freshman at the famous Rhode Island School of Design, Emi had “willingly” taken time off from school to go on vacation with (approximately) 42-year-old Vincent Gallo. Unfortunately, Gallo was of little help to Lola, but after speaking on the phone for three hours, he offered Lola the starring role in a music video he was directing. Emi said no. 

Next, Lola asked Poppy, Bea’s grandfather, “Could I please interview you about Charles Manson? Lola wrote that, despite Poppy’s age, she “loved” him, he was her “dream man”, and she  “wondered if there was something romantic between” them. Lola wrote that Poppy was her “type”, because: “[...] he was dependably dressed in a three-piece suit and doused in Chanel No. 5. He loved to sing Marilyn Monroe songs, and he winked a lot. My dream man.” 

Eve, a famous actress, used to help Lola with her acting. Eve and Jude, Eve's 16-year-old son, lived uptown, and they lived on a “sprawling” Long Island estate; however, a divorce forced Eve and Jude to move to the West Village with Lola’s family. Soon after, Lola “[...] became Jude’s girlfriend.”

Blanche, “who was a bit older than” Lola, took 15-year-old Lola out for Manhattans after Lola’s performance in her “school’s neofuturist production of Macbeth”. At the bar, Blanche asked Lola, “What’s Jude’s penis like?” Lola lied, “I’ve never seen it.” Blanche must’ve sensed that Lola was lying because Blanche continued to ask Lola about the size of Jude’s 16-year-old penis. Eventually, Lola informed Blanche that Jude’s penis was “perfectly nice”, which apparently was an understatement, because “One dark winter evening later that year,” Blanche informed Lola that Jude’s penis was “huge”. Blanche had found out about Jude’s penis size from Emi. Like Lola, Emi had first-hand knowledge about Jude’s penis, because, per Blanch, that prior summer, (approximately) 19-year-old Emi performed oral sex on (approximately) 15-year-old Jude in the Kirke’s pool house. 

“So, you did not tell me that Jude’s penis is huge!” she said with a strange guttural laugh [...]

“Who told you that? I [Lola] replied, feigning nonchalance.

“Emi,” Blanche said. “You know she blew him, right? In your pool house? Last Summer?”

In a fit of advanced rage, Lola called Emi at Rhode Island School of Design and repeatedly called Emi a “cunt”.

In the chapter “Little Lolita of West Fourth Street”, Lola introduced the readers to Ray. “Ray had played guitar in a semi-successful ‘90s rock band,” but when the band disbanded, Ray did a “brief stint” as Lola’s live-in manny. 15-year-old Lola was often left alone with Ray; so, she “hosted sleepovers with [her] girlfriends every other night and smoked ceaselessly inside” while Ray flirted with Lola’s friends. 

One morning, Lola “awoke to find Zora blushing in her underwear.” Zora informed Lola that she was smiling because Ray had kissed her while she was (nude) in the shower. 

Zora said, “I was in the shower, and he came in, and he just…kissed me. Oh! And then he asked me where the rolling papers were.” 

And somehow, Ray had gotten hold of Zora’s bra, because: “A few weeks later, the housekeeper found Zora’s oversized bra stuffed in Ray’s sheets.” However, Lola did not say how Zora's “black lace” bra got into Ray’s bed. Of Zora’s bra, Lola wrote:

What do we do?” my mother asked [...]

“Probably give it back?” I suggested. 

“You’re right. It does look expensive,” she agreed. 

Very interestingly, Lola shared that as she was writing her 10th grade English paper on Lolita, she felt connected to the book, she shared that the Colombian seamstresses whom worked in her mother’s basement called her Lolita, and she related that when she was 13, her mother gave her “an original poster of the Kubrick film version.” And Lola wrote that she: “[...] thought it was a good thing to be a sexually precocious young girl, and who was more that than Lolita?” Thus, it appears that Lola agrees with novelist Robertson Davies' assessment of Lolita as: “[...] not [about] the corruption of an innocent child by a cunning adult, but [about] the exploitation of a weak adult by a corrupt child”.

Of Gideon, Lola wrote that he: “[...] had been a heartthrob movie star since he was a teenager, but he no longer looked like it [...] he was now almost unrecognizably bearded and fat.” One day, at Lola’s house, “Gideon was sprawled across a sofa”, and he announced to no one in particular, “I want pot.” Lola’s mother replied, “Oh, Lola loves pot,” which was true, because Lola shared that, at the time, she was “smoking at least eight times per day.” 

To fulfill Gideon’s request, Lola “ran upstairs two at a time”, grabbed her “stash”. Subsequently, Lola, in a “hot pink American Apparel catsuit”, and Gideon walked to Gideon’s loft where Lola “rolled a joint on the kitchen counter”, they smoked it “until it was gone”, and Lola “wafted to the center of his loft and began to dance for him” as she “considered what it would be like to kiss him.” 

Although, despite the fact that Gideon was a movie star, Lola still held the stance that older men should “on no occasion wear sandals.” Lola realized that her “seduction had worked” after Gideon said, while “patting his lap”, “Come sit here.”

During Emi’s second year at the Rhode Island School of Design, which was when Lola was “just starting high school”, Lola went to visit Emi, whom had a “large poster of a movie about a pretty child heroin addict” hanging on her off-campus apartment wall. After Emi “did a line” and Lola smoked (a cigarette), they went to a house party where Lola sat “on a twin bed, falling in love with [Gary] a local.” 

Lola wrote that Gary was like “the whole solar system”; however, at the end of their conversation, Gary wrote his number down on a piece of plywood with the caption: “Call me when yer [sic] 18”, which Lola brandished “like a trophy.” Later, at the party, Lola learned from Emi that Gary had recently broken into her apartment, but Emi reassured Lola that, “It was fine. We had sex.”

Like Paris Hilton and Julia Fox, Lola went to nightclubs in high school too. However, unlike Paris and Julia Fox, Lola went to nightclubs with her mother too. Lola wrote:

Being underaged, I’d discovered the secret to getting in wasn’t having a fake ID but looking like you didn’t give a shit.

Lola and Gael García Bernal in MOZART IN THE JUNGLE

Lola starred in Amazon Prime’s Mozart in the Jungle (2014–2018), but when she first learned of the role, she wrote that “the whole thing sounded dubious”; however, her “imagination went wild” after she learned that Gael García Bernal “was attached to star”, because she spent her adolescent masturbating to Bernal whom is 12 years Lola’s senior. 

One afternoon [...] my agent called [...] he told me how a website that typically sold books was now making TV shows. Except the TV shows would be played not on an actual TV but on your computer. The whole thing sounded dubious [...]

When he mentioned that a foreign film star I’d spent my adolescence getting off to was attached to star, my imagination went wild. 

Surprisingly, on the “Nancy Spungen” episode of The C-Word podcast, after Dunham said that 16-year-old Spungen bragged that she had sex with every member of Bad Company, Dunham failed to mention that Lola and Jemima’s father was a co-founding member of Bad Company. Of course, Dunham and Emi (Jemima) were co-stars on Girls. However, Dunham did write a blurb for Wild West Village:

Lola Kirke has captured more than just her own wild and specific New York upbringing. She has captured the yearning of a generation [...] She is a wise, witty, and unsparing writer.” - Lena Dunham