Spur Posse

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The Spur Posse was a group of high school boys from Lakewood, California, who used a point system to keep track of and compare their sexual conquests. The group came to national attention on March 18, 1993, when police arrested a number of the members for various sexual crimes. Prosecutors later dropped all but one of the charges after determining most of the encounters were consensual, albeit with underage girls. Members of the Spur Posse proceeded to make the rounds on the tabloid-TV talk-show circuit. The Spur Posse events are often compared to two other teen sex scandals of the era - the rape of a mentally challenged girl in 1989 by four popular "jocks" in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and the 1996 syphilis epidemic among teens engaging in group sex orgies in Rockdale County, Georgia.

[edit] References

• Susan Faludi, "Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man" (Perennial 2000) ISBN 0-380-72045-0

• David Ferrell, Spur Posse Goes on the Defensive, L.A. Times, March 20, 1993, at B1;

• Jill Smolowe, "Sex with a Scoreboard," Time, April 5, 1993, at 41.

• Seth Mydans, "7 of 9 California Youths are Freed in a Case of Having Sex for Points," N.Y. Times, March 23, 1993, at A14.