Posted on 02/16/2005 6:38:05 PM PST by wagglebee
If you watch a lot of cable television, you've probably seen the ads, especially late at night or early in the morning. The "Girls Gone Wild" videos promise to show you coeds behaving badly on the beach during Spring Break or getting down and dirty at Mardi Gras. The formula is simple: find a group of nubile young things drunk out of their heads and induce them to pull up their T-shirts or pull down their shorts and expose themselves to anyone willing to fork over $19.95 for the privilege. The most recent incarnation features gangster rapper Snoop Dogg hawking fresh, young flesh.
Call me old-fashioned, but I just can't imagine what these girls were thinking when they agreed to "show off their assets," as one knock-off video boasts. These young women aren't pros -- they are not part of the pornographic underworld -- but ordinary teens and twenty-somethings who one day will be wives and mothers. One young girl, who was 17 at the time she allowed herself to be photographed topless, has already sued the producers of "The Guy Game," a video game featuring females in various stages of undress. Her suit claims she did not give a "valid or enforceable consent or release" for photos to be used by the video game makers. "Plaintiff is still a teenager and wishes to attend college, develop her career and be active in her community and church." Good luck.
What is most shocking about this phenomenon is that we're not all that shocked by it. Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more. Just take a look around next time you're at the mall. With warm weather on the way, belly buttons will be popping out everywhere, and thighs will be very much on display, even in church. Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.
A recent report by the Independent Women's Forum (IWF) -- "Sex (Ms.) Education: What Young Women Need to Know (But Won't Hear in Women's Studies) About Sex, Love, and Marriage" -- suggests that feminism is at least partly to blame. Female sexual license has become a central tenet in modern feminism, as the IWF documents in its study of feminist academic literature. Popular feminist textbooks, notes the study's author Carrie Lukas, "celebrate feminism's role in changing social mores by increasing the recognition of women's sexuality, bolstering its acceptance, and encouraging greater access to birth control." Early feminists burned their bras as a symbol of their liberation. Could baring their breasts be the newest symbolic act of young feminists?
As Lukas demonstrates, however, libertine behavior exacts a heavier toll on females than males. Women are more susceptible to sexually transmitted diseases than men, for example. A woman is eight times more likely than a man to contract HIV from a single sexual encounter and four times more likely to get gonorrhea when exposed. Women are also more likely to suffer serious damage, such as sterility or cervical cancer, from STDs. And the risks are not just physical.
Many studies show that promiscuous behavior entails greater psychological costs for even the most "liberated" women. One anthropologist cited by Lukas hypothesizes that the uncomfortable feelings many women experience after casual sexual encounters may be a warning system for women not to engage in behavior that would have been "maladaptive in earlier evolutionary eras. Casual sex with men unwilling to invest in them or their offspring is a prime instigator of such negative feelings."
The girls baring all in these low-budget videos may think that guys like this kind of behavior. But as Steven E. Rhoads, author of "Taking Sex Differences Seriously" notes, "Men often prize promiscuous sex in the short term, but they want faithful wives. . . . If a man finds a woman hard to get, he will sense that she is more likely to be faithful after marriage." Plenty of men and boys will buy the "Girls Gone Wild" videos, but they're not likely to invite the amateur strippers home to meet Mom.
Second smartest business plan of the 90's after WWF (WWE).
Some of the not so young were not so slim and trim either. I felt like telling them to put it back on.
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I agree especially after seeing his house on Single in LA!
My wife has always dressed conservatively, even when we knew each other in college before we dated.
It depends heavily on your circle of friends and your environment. If you are in most church groups, you will find a definite segregation. One group will be the sluts (male and female), who for some unfathomable reason attend church anyway. The other will be moral young people looking for marriage.
Of course it is!!! Women feeling bad about whoring around because of an evolutionary trait?
The uncomfortable feelings many women experience after casual sexual encounters just may be their conscience telling them not to act like sluts.
You are right about one's social circle and church.
If you first dress like a slut and are noticed, you will forever be a slut in most men's eyes. Dressing conservatively does not change a man's opinion of you. Instead, he will ask himself, "Who is she trying to fool?"
If however you approach two different sets of men, approaching one set dressed as a slut and the other conservatively, but still attractive, you will get attention from both groups, just the group that sees you dressed conservatively and attractively will speak to you in a far more respectful manner and not think of you as a slut. The other group has already pegged you and nothing you do will change their minds. Ever.
No science in this, just my personal observations after 38 years of watching woman.
...and what's up with all the tattoos on the young ladies' lower backs?
Its amazing how many fathers in this nation are will put up with this cr@p. Imagine seeing your daughter in this commercial.
Didn't the Bent One star in that movie "Crouching Intern, Hidden Cigar?"
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As long as there are 20-something girls using their "assets" to get attention, there will be 40-something women around to harumph at them. That's because they remember being 20-somethings and doing those dumb things too.
I usually do dress very conservatively, but for a while I tried to wear short skirts and all that to get this guy's attention. He still didn't pay any attention to me, so I gave up. I wasn't fooling anyone anyway. Dressing conservatively does change a man's opinion of you so I have to disagree with you. Some of us girls do want to get asked out on dates. Maybe it's different here. I hear it's not the same in the South.
I've read that these "Girls Gone Wild" productions are a bunch of crap. They travel with a bunch of strippers who pretend to be regular girls for the cameras. They do this both to bait other girls and also because (guess what) they can't get normal women to just rip their clothes off.
I've read that these "Girls Gone Wild" productions are a bunch of crap. They travel with a bunch of strippers who pretend to be regular girls for the cameras. They do this both to bait other girls and also because (guess what) they can't get normal women to just rip their clothes off.
So do a little of both: wear a 'conservative' outfit with a garter belt and stockings.
Yeah that's a good idea except no one gonna see it :o)
Feminine modesty went into the toilet at the beginning of the Great Society. That toilet was flushed in 1998 when Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski proved that modesty is not only unnecessary but the lack of modesty can be a commodity. Bill Clinton, who should be hanging his head in shame, is actually out on the speaking tours making mega-bucks. And, I am sure that Miss Monica's net worth today is a hell of a lot greater today than it was in 1998. Bill's wife, who should be addressing a rape allegation against her husband, obviously is more concerned about her own political ambitions rather than speaking up to slow the rapidly decaying moral values that are left in this country...
How normal can one be after a few cups of beer???
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