Maybe 10 years ago, an issue of Rolling Stone did a major piece on these mooks. A bunch of douchebag high school mooks who ran around doing crimes, but who’s biggest claim to fame was that they had lists of all of the high school girls they’d fucked/wanted to fuck and in order to prove that said fucking had actually occurred, at least one other member of the posse had to be present when the fucking went down.
It goes without saying that they thought they were The Shit, but had no idea it was literally true.
I specifically recall that one of the mooks did nothing but yammer on endlessly about how he was going to be a pornstar and that this was his “training” and one of the other posse members was going to “hook him up in the industry yo.”
Given the time period that it came out in, I’m semi-surprised that there wasn’t a fucking avalanche sized scream of outrage from the usual suspects, especially the 'net, but then again, the 'net was still pretty much in it’s infancy back then.
My question is, where did all of these douche bags end up? Personally I hope the answer is “behind bars being gang-raped and shived,” but sadly, I doubt that’s true.
Why is this in CS?
IIRC, what they actually did was chalk up “points” for each girl they had sex with. I don’t remember any of them having to watch the others having sex and the like.
I knew the “Points System” plotline of various teen angst shows and movies was based on a real event, but I never knew which group of screwups were responsible. What do ya know.
But I just a little googling and I think the Spurs Posse has just faded into obscurity. All of the websites I stumbled across mention their various TV appearances, but it also mentioned how no charges were ever filed because all of the sex was consensual.
So yeah, I’d imagine “A bunch of high schoolers have lots of sex and then tell everybody about it” isn’t going to leave any kind of unique legacy.
Quite frankly, the only difference between that and most high schools is they had a more organized scoring system.
I don’t know what subsequently happened to any of those charming fellows, but an excellent account of it, “Trouble in Lakewood,” can be found in Joan Didion’s Where I Was From. Her account was originally published in The New Yorker. By her reckoning, Lakewood is simply one of those “not making it” towns where the residents are discovering too late that they’re not living the good life they thought they were.
And yeah, every high school I’m aware of has a clique of asshole jocks who brag about their sexual accomplishments, and the not-too-bright girls who enable them. Just one more regard where Lakewood is absolutely nothing remarkable.