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.
you are correct sir. many of these girls do go from place to place...chances are you'll see repeats from one video to the next, from new orleans to fort lauderdale.
........running to hide.
good point :o)
Hey cyborg. Do you REALLY want the kinda guy who is attracted to you only when you dress slutty? Think of it as a "litmus test" of the quality of the male of the species. Some of us like a woman with class. Some like a woman who can be a tomboy and your best friend, hiking and jeeping buddy as well as a lover. Both of the above is best. Sluts and bimbos might get the looks and the casual sex (read: "social diseases") but they don't get the quality guys and what you do get see you as an object rather than a person....you know, the kind of shallow, d**k-thinkers who buy these movies. I guess it just depends on what you expect for and of yourself: Do you want to be treated with respect as a thinking, feeling person or to be seen as a nothing more than a life support and mobility system for your genitalia, like the chicks in these movies.
Some of us girls do want to get asked out on dates
Yea but what kind of guy is doing the askin?
Hi Cyborg... I'm pretty sure I met you at the Leadership Institute's Grassroots Seminar in NYC awhile back... I don't think we talked more than a second but I do remember you as a nice young lady.
I read some of your posts complaining that you don't meet any nice guys, etc. What do you think the problem is? I have a lot of friends in NYC who are nice guys. You probably wouldn't want much to do with them as all of them except for one with a girlfriend smoke pot and drink frequently (other than that they are 100% awesome guys any girl would be lucky to have, trust me). But their big complaint is that there just aren't any nice girls on that God-forsaken rock called Manhattan.
In the next month I'll be down in NYC visiting friends and hanging out. It might be cool to meet up for a coffee or a beer/wine (if you drink). I love meeting FReepers and shootin' the breeze about stuff! Let me know about that.
Hope you have good luck! I too am having serious problems finding a suitable mate who has a good heart and strong morals (and I'm a tattooed guy in a rock band, imagine how hard it is for me!!!!)
Hey cyborg. Do you REALLY want the kinda guy who is attracted to you only when you dress slutty
*** Nope. That's what I thought when I was much younger around twenty five or so. I'm older and wiser. Girls will do really dumb things to get attention, well not all but a lot.
Yup I went to that seminar. I sat up front so I wouldn't fall asleep :o) Well in the interest of full disclosure, I live on Long Island and not in the best part of LI that's good for someone single and looking to get married. I'm much happier when I go the city. I force myself to get out and expose myself to sunlight *lol*
I can imagine how some of these girls feel when they wake up.
My guess is hung over and trying to find a phone to call a lawyer to make a buck.
Yes I got that message right away. The guys weren't scuzzy, but they were not men who would ask me out otherwise. I just had a short skirt. Thankfully I got the message before making a true a$$ of myself.
He didnt hold a gun to their heads...yes he is a dirtbag but im sorry i cant get too worked up with pain for these girls
"I've experimented dressing .... dressing like a tramp"
Um, you know, there is a rule around here.
Men do stupid/silly things too to impress girls...I got a mohawk and a earring to impress some girl but now of course married with 3 children to a woman who is all things to me
So do you remember chatting me up for a second? I was sitting on the left side, near the windows, towards the back, a few rows up from Firebrand.
Would you like to meet up to shoot the breeze if I make it to the city sometime this month?
lemme know! it would be cool! :-)
Yeah I remember hehe... which is a miracle after the large cappucino I had earlier.
I only have my riot grrl skinhead pic, and the scanner is broken :-)
Girls Having A Fit Of Pique did not sell.
Awwww three kids? Wow!
If you should want to buy some "Show Your T..." beads next time, just ask me.
Me, I just go for the food.
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