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Girls Gone Wild features softcore pornography, featuring “young women exposing themselves on camera,” according to ESPN, and those young women are “in the barely-legal age group,” according to the UK Daily Mail.
Cuban first partnered with the Girls Gone Wild brand in 2010 and his network, HDNet, has aired the series Girls Gone Wild Presents: Search for the Hottest Girl in America for four seasons.
The UK Daily Mail grilled Cuban about the series, to which he claimed, “That’s not objectifying women!” The Daily Mail questioned him further, and it became awkward:
DailyMail.com asked him instead about his history promoting teen nudity on television – making the serial entrepreneur uncomfortable enough to crane his neck in search of someone else to talk to.
But ultimately he insisted that ‘no,’ his past association with the ‘Girls Gone Wild’ brand doesn’t compromise his pro-Clinton activism.
Asked if objectifying young women might cause Clinton partisans, specifically female voters, to be concerned about his sincerity, Cuban replied: ‘Nope. Not at all.’
Cuban Hops into Bed with Girls Gone Wild
"We're very excited to work with the Girls Gone Wild team to launch this show," said Cuban, president and co-founder of HDNet. "The program is a cool, behind-the-scenes look at the GGW enterprise and a wild ride for our viewers. It's a perfect fit for the new, unrated, late-night programming block that we air as part of our 'Guys Night In' line-up every Thursday."
GGW founder Joe Francis said Cuban is a pioneer and that they were "excited by the opportunity to share with viewers this behind-the-scenes look at Girls Gone Wild in action."