PENTHOUSE Magazine, Volume 19, Number 9, 1984 Traci Lords

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Gingold, Michael (June 13, 2013). "The 2013 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards Results!". Fangoria. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013 . Retrieved August 27, 2016. In 1991, Lords starred in the thriller Raw Nerve and the action crime film A Time to Die. Lords appeared in such popular TV shows as Roseanne, Married... with Children, MacGyver and Hercules. She continued modeling and walked the runway for fashion designers such as Janet Howard and Thierry Mugler. [43] 1992–1996: Breakthrough, 1000 Fires and Melrose Place [ edit ] Williams had already been through the wringer and then some by the time she found out, in mid-July 1984, via a New York Post reporter, that she was about to become Penthouse's cover girl, an honor she neither asked for nor wanted. The cover boy was George Burns, the beloved geriatric actor who'd played the All Mighty in the recent hit comedy Oh God!"Miss America: Oh, God, She's Nude!" the headline would read. 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. 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!"

Well, the photos aren't quite all that, but they aren't just your standard-issue nudes either. They featured Williams and another model miming the act of love in a variety of attitudes and positions. Oh, and that other model happened to be a woman. Pinsker, Beth (November 13, 1998). " Boogie Boy is weirdly sublime". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 13, 2016. When Kuzma was 12, she moved with her mother, her mother's new boyfriend, and sisters to Redondo Beach, California. She did not see her father for many years after. In September 1982, she began attending Redondo Union High School but dropped out at age 15 to enter the porn industry. [9] During her early school years, Kuzma developed a rebellious attitude. She was angry at her mother and found a father figure in her mother's boyfriend Roger Hayes, as she calls him in her autobiography. He was a drug abuser and molested Kuzma in her sleep. According to Lords, this and a rape by a 16-year-old boy in school she had been seeing, which she called "the single most traumatizing thing that ever happened to me in my life", would be what eventually drove her into pornography. Lords has stated, "My damage drove me into porn. I mean, I was a little girl. And I had like all of this stuff. I'd been raped. I'd been molested. I'd been abused. I was messed up. And I was angry. And the same thing that later helped me to change my life when I was 18 and out of that world that helped me to get sober and helped me to gather the courage to go and do the work I needed to do, to look at some things in my life that were so ugly." [10] After her mother broke up with Hayes due to his drug use, she began dating his friend. Kuzma refused to follow them to a new place and was left with her older sister Lorraine. Her mother and two younger sisters eventually found a new apartment. [11] Career [ edit ] 1984–1986: Pornography career [ edit ] The GQ answer to your question is in your OP. Something that has never been prosecuted is probably not illegal.Many Hollywood movies have had under 18 actresses pose nude. Thora Birch in American Beauty is one famous example, easily and legally available. As of 2020, Lords continues to act, and has had a number of films released over the last couple of years. Satuloff, Bob (May 27, 1997). "Smells Like Teen Spirit". The Advocate. No.734. p.93 . Retrieved March 13, 2016.

Dougherty, Margot (September 11, 1989). "What Hath John Waters Wrought? A Musical with a Cast You Wouldn't Believe". People. Archived from the original on June 4, 2009 . Retrieved March 15, 2016. In the year 1987 Traci joined in the Lee Strasberg acting school, started voice lessons and built on her natural acting talents. Her first mainstream break came out in 1988 Not of This Earth, a remake of the classic Roger Corman sci-fi film from the 1950s. It was the last time that Traci would expose her breasts for the camera.Her repeated character in early 1995 as a sneering sociopath, Rikki, on Melrose Place in 1992 was critically praised and landed her more characters in other films, playing villains and psychotic characters. In the latter half of the 1990s, she seemed in numerous B movies that went straight to video and/or cable in lead, minor or cameo roles. She even guest-starred in several TV shows ranging from Roseanne, Married….with Children, Nash Bridges, MacG Ever. 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 am aware of the definition and as I have not seen the images in question, I think it can be presumed that someone posing for Penthouse would be posed in some suggestive / erotic way. Let us not forget that the Supremes upheld the Knox conviction which, as I recall, involved video of fully clothed little children, not doing anything particularly erotic but the camera was zoomed into their (fully covered) “naughty” areas. Thank God I have lived long enough," said Rep. Shirley Chisholm, "that this nation has been able to select the beautiful young woman of color to be Miss America."

Snierson, Dan (January 8, 2001). "Traci Lords is the Sci Fi Channel's new intergalactic babe". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 13, 2016. Tzara, Alexander (October 5, 1995). "Traci Lords: I Was A Teenage Pornstar". Trigger . Retrieved March 15, 2016. I felt," Williams said of the moment she learned that she'd appear in Penthouse, "like I had been raped."Gibson, Thomasina (2000). "For the upcoming third season of First Wave, Cade Foster has a new follower: Jordan Radcliffe". XPosé. Archived from the original on April 30, 2021 . Retrieved March 15, 2015.