Rob Lowe's straight-to-video sex scandal

Proving that even scandals that began and ended pre-Internet will never truly die, Fleshbot unearthed and uploaded these old school, pre-YouTube sex tapes of Rob Lowe getting it on in Betamax.

Egged on by another fully nude guy identified by Wiki as Justin Morris, Rob (aka Sodapop, Billy Hicks or Sam Seaborn) can be blurrily seen enjoying all that a young model named Jennifer has to offer.

Maybe it's because this is the lesser of two infamous sex tape scandals Lowe faced within a matter of months -- the other more headline-ready, what with a 16-year-old participant and the Democratic National Convention as backdrop -- but I'd never caught the fact that this other menage was one-third male two-thirds male (math is hard!).

(If you can't tell by the words "sex tape" that this isn't exactly safe to be watching at work, you probably deserve to get fired.)

The 25 Biggest Celeb Scandals Since 1982 - part 5

ROB LOWE: SEX-TAPE PIONEER

During the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta, Rob Lowe picked up two gals (ages 22 and 16) at a club, invited them back to his hotel, and videotaped the romp. Naturally, the home movie leaked out — and grainy footage of the Brat Packer in action made the tabloid-TV rounds. The underage girl's mom sued Lowe, but it was settled out of court, and no charges were filed. (He agreed to perform 20 hours of community service.)

CAREER IMPACT: MINOR After a brief rehab stint for alcohol addiction in 1990, the star went on to wink at the incident in his work, including the 1999 West Wing pilot — in which his character, a presidential aide, unwittingly sleeps with a hooker. As Lowe noted in 2000, ''At the height of my downfall, I was still making a million bucks a picture.''