# Porn star prom dates are bad - mmmkay? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 8, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319 "2004-06-08T19:34:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/41 "2004-06-10T16:17:02Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > $8 > > At least that’s what it cost my prom date. That was the cost of his ticket. I paid for my own ticket. Man…I hate my school (which, btw, I graduate from on Tuesday…) Average cost of prom at my school: $60 for one ticket. IF you pay for your date, that’s $120. Plus, for a girl, an average of… $150 for a dress. That’s less than most people paid, though. Plus, if you get a limo, that’s at least fifty bucks. Plus shoes and purse and if you get your hair and/or makeup done - who knows how much. Plus, most people get a shore house for the weekend, which is mad expensive. Prom: usually near a thousand dollars, which is why I didn’t go (also, I don’t like dances. Or dresses.) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/42 "2004-06-10T17:46:51Z")
Oh ok I forgot about the dress. My dress was $50. I did my own hair and makeup, and wore shoes and a purse that I already had. No limo… I drove to his house (over an hour might I add) and then he drove us to the prom. No dinner, either. After my prom, we went to his prom. After that, we went back to his house, watched a movie, and I drove home. ---
**Author:** ![P\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a587f6/32.png) [@P\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P_T)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/43 "2004-06-10T18:10:21Z")
First of all, if it was my kid, I’d be damn proud too. Take lots of pictures. Second, I’d have to beat him down if he wanted to take her to the Prom for his date. Third, the school really is making too much out of it, but then again I kinda understand their side as well. It really could get out of hand easily. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/44 "2004-06-11T01:22:06Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > Good point, Eve. Also, how often do you see someone in a porno that doesn’t actually have sex in the movie at some point? Used to happen. Back in the late-70s / early-80s days when they actually attempted to do “plots” in the theatrical-release pornos. > [@](#): > > You know, you always see the one where the pizza delivery guy comes by and ends up screwing two girls in the kitchen. You never see the one where the pizza delivery guy comes by, drops off a couple of pizzas and leaves. Well, that one exists, but only because it is followed by the scene where he delivers to the apartment of a studly, muscular guy with a mustache, and… ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/45 "2004-06-11T04:05:06Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > But at larger schools, can anyone go, or is it limited to certain years (i.e., freshman, sophmore)? I doubt there’s any schools where freshmen and sophomores can go, but upperclassmen can’t. I assume that’s not what you meant. At my school, there are only a certain number of bids\* sold. anyone from any grade can go, as long as you buy it before they sell out. I don’t know what the age restriction is on non-high-school dates. I think a bid costs $150 or so, but they also charge you more if you wait longer, which seems very wrong to me. Plus tux/dress, limo, etc., which is while I’m planning to go once… at most. It hardly seems worth it, personally. \*“Bid” means one ticket that admits two people. Why don’t they just call it a “couple’s ticket”? Because they want to confuse the freshmen? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/46 "2004-06-11T06:00:01Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > Yeah, because porno chicks are on such moral high ground that they would never do such things. haha. Eh, she might not buy him beer because she’s pretty high profile and it’d be really bad for her to get caught buying booze for a minor. I didn’t go to my prom because you weren’t allowed to go without a date-I would have liked to have gone with a bunch of my friends, but you weren’t allowed. I COULD HAVE asked a guy friend, (who was from another school) but as none of my friends were going, what was the point? I once read about a kid who brought his great-grandmother to the prom, because she had never been to a fancy dance or something. (I would think the PR would go over big with romantic-minded high school girls). The school just might not want the publicity that goes along with this. Imagine being known as the principal of the school whose claim to fame is that a porn star came to your prom. ---
**Author:** ![EvilGhandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@EvilGhandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilGhandi)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/47 "2004-06-11T10:59:36Z")
Anyone here really believe DWC wouldn’t have any qualms, nine years from now, his daughter wanting to attend the prom with with Long Dong Silva? ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/48 "2004-06-11T14:28:18Z")
> [@TJdude825](#): > > I doubt there’s any schools where freshmen and sophomores can go, but upperclassmen can’t. I assume that’s not what you meant. > > At my school, there are only a certain number of bids\* sold. anyone from any grade can go, as long as you buy it before they sell out. I don’t know what the age restriction is on non-high-school dates. > I think a bid costs $150 or so, but they also charge you more if you wait longer, which seems very wrong to me. Plus tux/dress, limo, etc., which is while I’m planning to go once… at most. It hardly seems worth it, personally. You are absolutely correct - I had heard that some high schools limited their proms to seniors only, but I wasn’t sure. $150 seems an _awful_ lot to pay for a prom ticket. Every time I went to the prom (all 4 times, I think), I went with the same guy, my then-boyfriend, and I think the ticket cost $40 for the two of us, and included dinner and the dance. But then again, that’s what you get when you have it in a rural town at the local Holiday Inn and the students are responsible for all the decoration. We never rented a limo, either. We always took my then-boyfriend’s huge green monster truck. It was hilarious now that I think about it. And when I see photos of myself at the prom, I think, ugh, early 90’s. What was I thinking? I look like a cheap hooker! ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/49 "2004-06-11T14:29:21Z")
P.S. In retrospect, I guess having a porn star there would have been fine - no one would have been able to tell the difference between her and the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/50 "2004-06-11T16:08:15Z")
> [@1010011010](#): > > Are you expecting her to strip down naked, call in a film crew, and start handing out relsease forms for _100% Blowjobs 25_ right after music starts? Expecting? No. Hoping…? -Joe, no comment ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/51 "2004-06-11T16:45:53Z")
> [@EvilGhandi](#): > > Anyone here really believe DWC wouldn’t have any qualms, nine years from now, his daughter wanting to attend the prom with with Long Dong Silva? I dunno about danceswithcocks, but no daughter of mine’s getting anywhere _near_ someone with such a huge age differential. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/52 "2004-06-11T18:56:39Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Why is everyone who does porn a porn “star?” You never hear about “porn extras” or “porn bit players.” How about porn gaffers, or porn foley artists, or porn best boys? ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/53 "2004-06-11T21:38:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Guinastasia** > _I didn’t go to my prom because you weren’t allowed to go without a date-I would have liked to have gone with a bunch of my friends, but you weren’t allowed._ That’s horrible! Why would a school have such a stupid rule? Grrr. I’m mad on your behalf, **Guin**. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/54 "2004-06-11T22:26:30Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#): > > Besides, didn’t anyone ever see “Can’t Buy Me Love?” Or _The Girl Next Door_ for that matter… Oh, and I googled Petra Verkaik’s stats: B-Day: November 4, 1966 Height: 5’8" Weight: 120 lbs Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown Measures: 36DD-24-36 :eek: D-Amn. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/55 "2004-06-11T22:30:21Z")
> [@PoorYorick](#): > > How about porn gaffers, or porn foley artists, or porn best boys? Not to be forgotten: porn key grip, and best fluffer 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319/56 "2004-06-11T22:50:09Z")
> [@PoorYorick](#): > > How about porn gaffers, or porn foley artists, or porn best boys? _porn foley artist_ is, of course, my dream job. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-star-prom-dates-are-bad-mmmkay/249319.md?page=2)