The world changed, if only a little, on July 17, 1988, in a hotel room in Atlanta, Georgia. That was the night Rob Lowe pressed the red button on his camcorder to kick off what we now call the celebrity sex tape.
He was there for the Democratic National Convention, to support Michael Dukakis. Ted Turner gave a party, then Lowe, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy went to a nightclub called Club Rio on Luckie Street (and that joke is too obvious even for me).
He went back to his hotel with two Atlanta hairdressers: one was 22, the other 16, which was the legal age of consent in Georgia, although he said later he had no idea she was that young. Who did what to whom is disputed, but they filmed it.
When he went to the bathroom, according to his version, recounted in
