Mike Stone had an idea. The St. Paul, Minnesota teen wanted to go to his high school prom, but he couldn’t find a date with any of his classmates. And he certainly didn’t want to go to the prom “stag.”
So according to the Huffington Post, he fired up his Twitter account and sent out some tweets. If he was going to get a date for his high school prom, he wanted a date that would catch everybody’s attention.
He decided to contact the Twitter account of every adult film actress he could find. That was “adult film actress,” not “adult actress who has appeared in films.” As in, he was more interested in Dru Berrymore than Drew Barrymore.
However, the responses – er, rejections – came back. No. Totally inappropriate. No.
But after 600 tweets, he got a positive response back from an adult film actress named Megan Piper.
Piper, during her senior year of high school, moved from her native Georgia to Kansas, and was not able to participate in her high school prom – even though she had purchased the dress and the shoes and all the accoutrements. She later moved to California and made a name for herself in films whose titles I cannot repeat in this blog, or my TU blog censor graphic might melt.
And as long as Stone could raise $400 for her transportation from California to Minnesota, she would love to be his prom date.
Yep. High school teen was going to bring a porn star to the prom.
I say “was going to,” however.
Because once news of Stone’s date plans became public, he had a meeting with the principal of his high school. The principal put the kibosh on the whole “porn star prom date” plans, and that Stone would not be allowed to bring Piper or any other adult film star to the prom. The principal noted that the school district does have the right to deny any person admission to a school-sponsored event, such as a prom or a pep rally, if it substantially disrupts the orderly operation of school or school activities.
Meanwhile, this story has taken on a life of its own. An adult website has offered to fly Piper to Minnesota and pay for a limousine and all the trimmings. Other organizations are talking about an alternative prom for Stone and Piper and invited guests.
You want my honest opinion?
Here it is.
Mike Stone is an idiot.
I mean, come on. This isn’t the equivalent of going on Twitter and sending a message to Selena Gomez, asking if she would go to your prom as your date and hoping she’ll say yes. This was an attention-grab, pure and simple. This was an attempt to embarrass his classmates and the school district. This was showboating – and a poor attempt at showboating, at that.
Look, I’m all for unusual prom dates and requests for someone to participate in this special event – but remember, the prom is a special event in the same way that a yearbook is a special event. It’s part of your school history and part of your school memories.
It’s not for glorified grandstanding and “Hey, look, I got a porn star to come to the prom with me, damn I’m so cool!” moments. I also realize that there is still an amount of “porn chic” going on in our society, where adult film stars like Traci Lords and Jenna Jameson and Sasha Grey can find mainstream work in television and movies. Good for them. We know, wink wink, what these girls do on film. And I somehow suspect that these films won’t be part of the next film festival at the high school audio-visual club. What if Mike Stone had sent out requests for, oh I don’t know, the evening shift local pole-polisher at the local strip club? Would that have been an acceptable date for the prom? No. Of course not.
Besides, whether Megan Piper was a porn star or a pawn star or a prawn star or a prone star isn’t material here. Most proms require that the “dates” either be students at that school or within that school district. So unless Megan Piper wanted to update her core curriculum with classes of anatomy and biology and chemistry and physics, then I guess her chances at appearing on Prom Night will have to wait until someone in the San Fernando Valley puts together a parody of this little event, maybe called “What Happened After Prom Nite” and released on direct-to-video DVD.
Other than that, this is a ridiculous story, and in retrospect, I’m sorry I wasted 800 words blogging about it.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I gotta check the mailbox and see if Marilyn Chambers finally sent that letter back about my asking her to my high school prom. Hee.
Chuck The Writer 
I think those who attend proms as dates of the students should be high-school age, meaning up to 19. It’s too creepy for adults to attend as dates, and even creepier for a porn star to attend.
I will say though, Mike Stone is a great name for a porno star.
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Wow Chuck, you know quite a few of those “stars” names 🙂 Personally, I agree, that kid was looking for attention with a capital A. If he was smart, he would’ve kept his mouth shut & just brought her (insert sarcasm here).
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How thoughtful of you to judge and look down upon adult film actresses and “local pole-polishers”. I suppose you agree that they’re not fit to ever be teachers, too?
What happened to “You do what you must, no matter what the cost”? or does that only apply to you?
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Very amusing and possibly most men’s fantasy to have a date with an “adult” star. But I agree with the school’s position on this – it should be anyone can attend the school prom who is of an appropriate age. You are still dealing with minors here.
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You said “pole polisher at a strip club” If you meant for this to be fateful then this is great writing, if not it is hysterical.
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Chuck, time to give up on that letter from Marilyn Chambers. She’s been dead for almost three years. http://ti.me/rVkg0W
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Dead?!? I didn’t even know she was sick!! LOLZ
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LOLZ?! Despicable.
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While I agree an adult film actress doesn’t belong at a high school prom, I take exception to the derogatory tone in which you refer to “pole polishers” – it may not be the most acceptable profession to some but “judge not, lest ye be judged” seems appropriate here. (Hmmm, am I becoming more like D357 or is he just softening with old age?)
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“This was an attention-grab, pure and simple.”
But when a Marine goes on the web to invite Justin Timberlake to a ball, that’s OK? Or was that an “attention-grab, pure and simple”?
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Oates77 – Yeah, that was an attention-grab as well. It would be an attention-grab if the person asked Bristol Palin or Kim Kardashian or Pippa Middleton to the prom. It’s not the method that’s the problem, it’s the intended recipient of the request.
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Well, you will reject this but here goes. If you read elsewhere, he asked about two dozen local girls and they all trashed him. I get it, socially not “in”. Well, I love what he did. He gave them a big “up yours” and I say the same to you Chuck.
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Ognywogny – I did mention in the article that he did ask his fellow classmates, who all had other dates or plans that night. If he did this as just a big eff ewe to his school, he definitely did get his message across – crass though it was.
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Marilyn Chambers might have left us, but Ginger Lynn’s still around. Although considering Charlie Sheen was hooked up with her, I’d have to pass.
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I agree that any “celebrity” would be an attention grab – but the tone of your blog insinuates that BECAUSE she was a porn star (or God forbid a local stripper) it is unacceptable. Perhaps more thought should have gone into WHY it’s unacceptable and used the “celebrity” names you mentioned in comment #11. Tsk tsk.
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Of course a celebrity date is an attention-grab…and if a school wanted to set an age limit for a teen dance that sounds perfectly reasonable, too.
But it’s not reasonable to look down your nose and stereotype everyone that works at “the local strip club”…especially after the blogpost just previous to this one.
Chuck, I’ll volunteer to take you to a club and show you the error of your ways…and I won’t be surprised if they say “Hi Chuck…usual table?” when we get there.
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Wow Chuck, still no apology to the college girls trying to make ends meet by working honestly in genteman’s clubs? Even your idol, Michael Ray Richardson, apologized for his “crafty, big-time Jew lawyers” comments and his anti-homosexual slurs.
Next time you’re looking to smear an entire profession why don’t you look around at the basketball players you admire so much? They’re the ones who are supposed to be role models…not cokeheads who get banned from the NBA.
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It seems that it would be a giving the school would put here foot down and say no. Even if it isn’t there place to judge. But if they are going to ban a celebrity prom date they should apply it to all.
I think the kid was for sure going for the ha ha in your face f-u thing. But not towards the school but to the ones that look down on him and treat him like a “nerd” or not in the popular pack.
He dint just sit home and wish he could find a hot prom date and show them all up. He actually took the initiative to take the gamble and Try the mass asking of the porn stars on twitter. And it worked. Come what guy with a heart beat didn’t think to them selves “DAM wish I had thought of it first” or “wish they had twitter when I was in high school” He didn’t let a few dozen turn downs from the girls in his school crush his hopes. Shows he isn’t discouraged easily and He just used his brain to come up with a way to archive his goal and he went for it. TO me that’s way better then if he either just excepted rejection and decided whats the use ever trying to ask any one out again ever and just live in his moms basement for ever. OR even worse and instead of sending off 600 tweets. loaded up clips with 600 bullets with the intent of going to the prom and getting even and going all Columbine.
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Well said.
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The assertion that most schools or districts require the person to be from that district, or even a student, is completely false. I have no idea where you got such a notion. Decades back with most of your other ideas, I assume. If the kid had asked some random stripper there never would have been any hysterics, he would have been barred at the entrance, at the very worst. I’ll also point out that this has actually quite a bit of precedent, the Howard Stern show hooked kids up with adult film star dates for their proms in the past.
Here’s a thought: Maybe the kid, like countless young men in high school, is painfully awkward. The odds of even being answered by Gomez or even Betty White are astronomically low. So he tried several hundred names off a list that might make him famous and even potentially get him a sexual encounter (he hopes, I’m sure). Why is this automatically such a malicious thing? Maybe it was about having his big night and not feeling like a loser, and not about damaging his classmates in some unexplained way that you bend over backwards trying to imagine.
And why is he stupid? Seems to me it worked beyond his wildest expectations, he’s now a legend at his school and might even get his own prom. Seems like maybe he’s a little clever, even if a bit creepy. The kid made an honest effort to ask out people from his own town, one of several details you omit in berating a high school kid, and was shunned for it. So he took unorthodox measures to not sit at home alone that night, and I applaud him for it.
For someone who can quote the names of porn stars spanning different decades with ease you sure sit in judgment of a grade school kid with comfort.
Sex workers and repressed young men might be your perceived inferiors, but I’d take their brains and logic over yours any day of the week.
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