Bob Shaw, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. –
If Mike Stone can’t bring his porn-star dates to prom, then he has an idea – an alternative “porn prom.”
“It would be a big party, just down the street. If anyone wanted to come, they would be welcome,” said Stone, 18, a student at Tartan High School in Oakdale whose search for a prom date has been an Internet sensation.
Stone said Thursday, March 22, that his fellow students were treating him like a hero.
“They chanted my name in the hallway – ‘Mike! Mike!’ ” he said. “They called me a legend. I have never been called that before.”
Stone, a senior, has never been to a prom and saw the May 12 event as his last chance.
But in January, he didn’t have a date. So he spent two months sending Twitter messages to about 600 celebrities – mostly porn stars.
Two women who have pornographic websites – Megan Piper and Emy Reyes – stepped up to be his prom dates. But only if Stone paid their airfare.
Stone began a fundraiser this week. He said Thursday that a travel agency had agreed to pay Piper’s and Reyes’ airfare.
Overall, Stone said, about 40 people and businesses have contacted him, most to make contributions. He said he has heard from supporters in China, Japan and Brazil.
Stone is still hoping to raise enough cash to take his dates to dinner, and possibly rent a limo.
School officials Wednesday squelched the idea of porn-star dates at a school function. The North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale district routinely requires written permission for any
nonstudent to attend a prom, and officials said Stone’s dates would not be allowed.
So he is considering a competing prom on the same night. Stone said he’s planning his party at a hotel a few blocks from the school prom at Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul.
He said his friends like the idea of a separate “porn prom.”
“The whole school wants this to happen,” Stone said. “They think it’s the best thing to ever happen at the school.
“This is the biggest thing to ever happen to me.”
