Snierson, Dan (January 8, 2001). "Traci Lords is the Sci Fi Channel's new intergalactic babe". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 13, 2016.

Maybe this does it. Peter Bloch, Penthouse's then-executive editor: "It was the best-selling issue of Penthouse of all time. Hands down. A complete sellout in, like, two days. You couldn't get a copy. So there were guys paying—and this is something I saw with my own eyes—a dollar for a peek. A peek!" Yes, most certainly there is a hysteria about sexting. Yes, some attitudes have changed so that seemingly every instance of nudity is a sex crime. McCabe, Bruce. "Details profiles actress-with-a-past Traci Lords: 'I was never a victim,' she says". The Baltimore Sun, April 23, 1995.Reyes, Traciy (March 3, 2016). " 'Nightmare Nurse': Lifetime Sizzles With Killer Nurse Movie Starring Traci Lords, Sarah Butler". Inquisitr . Retrieved March 6, 2016. I’m getting ahead of myself, though, because I should explain the story first: Traci Lords was the biggest porn star in the world in the mid 1980s. Then, in July of ’86, it was revealed in dramatic fashion—the FBI busting down Traci’s door—that she’d been underage for virtually her entire adult career. This was a huge scandal, and one I was totally unaware of, because at the time it broke I was seven years old. Federal law defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor.

Because my mind is in the past (the mid-eighties) and in the gutter (the porn biz) for reasons that will become clear, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the September 1984 issue of Penthouse. How to convey the magnitude of the frenzy? She has also done work to encourage runaways and homeless teens to get off the streets, such as her promos for Children of the Night. The GQ answer to your question is in your OP. Something that has never been prosecuted is probably not illegal.

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Gieseke, Winston (September 9, 2019). "Getting Steamy With Traci Lords". Palm Springs Life . Retrieved May 8, 2023. Traci Lords: John Waters once referred to me as a sexual terrorist..... Mankiewicz, Josh (July 11, 2003). "Secrets & Lies". Dateline NBC. Season 15. Episode 78. NBC. Transcript of the original source.

Jordan, Jennifer. "Traci Lords refuses to go topless due to breastfeeding", ParentDish, November 3, 2008. Riemenschneider, Chris (August 12, 1995). "Lollapalooza Fans Can Dance Till Dawn at Post-Concert Rave". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2015-03-06. Because my mind is in the past (the mid-eighties) and in the gutter (the porn biz) for reasons that will become clear, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the September 1984 issue of Penthouse . How to convey the magnitude of the frenzy?I live in New York, but I’m in L.A. all the time for work. And when I’m there, I always make it a point to drive Mulholland, my favorite street in the city. It traces its serpentine path through the Santa Monica Mountains, and you’ve got, on one side of you, a spectacular view of Hollywood, home of the movie industry, and on the other side, a spectacular view of the San Fernando Valley, home of the porn industry. And if the geographical separation between the two industries is narrow, the psychological isn’t even that. The porn industry is overtly about what the movie industry is covertly about: sex and fantasy, objectification and exploitation. It’s the movie industry without the pretense. Or the hypocrisy. Steiner, Amanda Michelle (August 25, 2015). "First Look: See the trailer for season 2 of EastSiders". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved October 29, 2016.

In contrast, Brooke Shields appeared fully naked at the age of 12 in “Pretty Baby”. Since she was playing a child prostitute, and one of the nude scenes involved her being “inspected” by a client who she later has sex with, it’s hard to argue that the scenes weren’t sexualised. Which is, more or less, exactly what happened. Guccione would forfeit his magazine in 2003, his fortune in 2006, and his life in 2010, when he died in Plano, TX, after a protracted battle with throat cancer.

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Kuzma (age 14) as a freshman at Redondo Union High School in 1983, the year before she illegally entered the porn industry. Falzone, Diana (August 31, 2017). "An adult industry past can be awkward when starting a new career". News.com.au. But the Traci Lords photos in Penthouse were (probably) illegal when they were published. Penthouse ran those photos because they believed them to be of a person named Kristie Elizabeth Nussman who was 22, but they really were of someone named Nora Louise Kuzma who was 15 or 16 at the time. There appears to be an important distinction that’s being missed: The Playboy centerfolds from Decades past and Brooke Shields’ appearance in Pretty Baby were, presumably, legal at the time they were made. They are thus probably covered by “grandfather” clauses in the laws.