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

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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. Williamson, Kevin. "Traci Lords hooked by porn again" Archived March 15, 2015, at archive.today, Canoe.ca, October 31, 2008. Broeske, Pat H. (January 31, 1988). "A Model of Fitness". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved March 15, 2016. That Guccione zigged where Hefner zagged is no surprise. Out-Hefnering Hefner had, after all, been his goal from the start. When he brought Penthouse from England to America in 1969, he placed an ad in the New York Times depicting the Playboy logo, the bunny, in the crosshairs of a gun, the caption reading, "We’re going rabbit hunting." And Guccione shot to kill. To wit: the Pubic Wars (an actual coined phrase, appearing in such august publications as the Wall Street Journal ), which he won by showing short-and-curlies in the February 1970 Penthouse , a full eleven months before Playboy .

a b Palermo, Dave. " Sex Films Pulled; Star Allegedly Too Young", Los Angeles Times, July 18, 1986. 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. McCabe, Bruce. "Details profiles actress-with-a-past Traci Lords: 'I was never a victim,' she says". The Baltimore Sun, April 23, 1995. Waters, John (2019). Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374214968. Gingold, Michael (June 13, 2013). "The 2013 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards Results!". Fangoria. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013 . Retrieved August 27, 2016.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? Melin, Eric (April 8, 2011). " "Au Pair, Kansas": KU grad's debut film, which stars Traci Lords, premieres at Kansas City FilmFest". Lawrence Journal-World . Retrieved March 18, 2015. 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.....

Bob Guccione and his longtime assistant, Jane Homlish, watch Williams announce her resignation. Getty 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. This is Traci’s story, but it’s also an examination of the porn industry as a whole. Why did you want to broaden the scope of the story so much? Riemenschneider, Chris (August 12, 1995). "Lollapalooza Fans Can Dance Till Dawn at Post-Concert Rave". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2015-03-06. Weinberg, Marc (July 1988). "The Return of Traci Lords". Orange Coast Magazine. pp.192–195 . Retrieved March 15, 2016.Pearce, Mary Vivian (August 1989). "John Waters on Cry Baby". Film Threat. No.21. Johnny Depp Zone Interview Archive. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012 . Retrieved May 8, 2023. Traci Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma; May 7, 1968) is an American actress, singer and former pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry using a fake birth certificate to conceal that she was two years under the legal age of eighteen. [1] Lords starred in adult films and was one of the most sought-after actresses in that industry during her career. When the FBI acted on an anonymous tip that Lords was a minor during her time in the industry, and that pornographers were distributing and selling these illegal images and videotapes, the resulting fallout led to prosecution of those responsible for creating and distributing the tapes. [2] In addition, all but the last of her adult films were banned as child pornography. While those might not have resulted in convictions, I think an underage person posed as they do in Penthouse probably would. 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 ]

Beloved geriatric actor George Burns, who shared the cover of Penthouse with Williams. Twice. Getty Soble, Ronald L. and Feldman, Paul. " Sex Film Star Not Facing Charges, Reiner Says", Los Angeles Times, July 19, 1986. The GQ answer to your question is in your OP. Something that has never been prosecuted is probably not illegal. Traci Lords of First Wave". Sci-fi Channel. June 26, 2001. Archived from the original on September 3, 2007 . Retrieved March 15, 2015. 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.Confession: I have my own porn past. I’m teasing, but I’m a little serious. I broke into print by writing about Al Goldstein, founder of Screw magazine and a major figure in the adult industry in the ’70s and ’80s. (This is obviously way before I was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.) One afternoon in 2012, I went to lunch in the Valley at a Hamburger Hamlet with adult veteran Bill Margold, who’d codirected Traci, and adult agent Jim South, who’d represented Traci. Traci, and what happened 25 years ago, was the topic of conversation between these two. Not for part of the lunch, for the whole lunch. The way they told the story was as a noir, with Traci as the ne plus ultra of femmes fatales: She’d scammed the adult industry with a fake ID; had made one movie after the age of 18, a movie she owned the rights to; and then she’d blown the whistle on herself to make more money and become more famous. And the anger of both these men was still, all these years later, hot to the touch. I wanted to find out why. Why was Traci Lords the wound that refused to heal for the adult industry? And who was this Traci Lords anyway, this teenager who’d single-handedly almost taken out an entire industry of hardened professionals? Allis, Tim (May 3, 1993). "Reborn Yesterday". People. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016 . Retrieved March 15, 2016. Smith, Tim (October 26, 2012). "Hitman: Absolution has Traci Lords and Keith Carradine". SPOnG.com . Retrieved August 27, 2016. Playboy had a 16-year-old Playmate in its January 1958 issue. Again AFAIK, every retrospective of Playmates feature her centerfold along with the 50s CD-ROM and every other way that Playboy makes money on its past. (Cynthia Myers, the December 1968 Playmate, was 17 when she posed.) 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!"