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'Baby, Give Me a Kiss'
Interesting article in the L.A. Times today regarding Joe Francis, the founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" empire. In addition to physically abusing the reporter in the story, and a description of what can only be described as rape, the article describes what gives Francis his power - the women who appear on camera for him.
The reporter questioned "why do women do this" and offered two glimpses into the answer:
and later
The article then goes on to describe a third women who is selected from the crowd, fed shots of alcohol, taken to "the bus" to be filmed, and then (off camera) deflowered by Francis.
What ideals are we selling to these women who believe sexual exhibition for someone else's profit will lead to fame, money and power?
'Baby, Give Me a Kiss'
Interesting article in the L.A. Times today regarding Joe Francis, the founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" empire. In addition to physically abusing the reporter in the story, and a description of what can only be described as rape, the article describes what gives Francis his power - the women who appear on camera for him.
The reporter questioned "why do women do this" and offered two glimpses into the answer:
When I turn to the flock of pretty girls, Jillian Vangeertry, a 21-year-old student, offers me a warm smile. I feel as if I'm in a bed of kittens. Why, I ask, is she here?
"Anybody enjoys the attention. T-shirts, hats—we got all the accessories," she says. I ask if she plans on going wild for the cameras later. She shrugs. "If you do it, you do it," she says confidently. "You can't complain later. It's almost like your 15 minutes of fame."
and later
I follow Francis and his bodyguard through the crowd to find Kaitlyn Bultema. She's dancing on a podium and leaps off at the sight of Francis. She's wearing a skirt-and-shirt ensemble that exposes her stomach, most of her breasts and much of her bottom. I ask her why she wants to appear on "Girls Gone Wild" and she looks me in the eye and says, "I want everybody to see me because I'm hot."
It's then that it hits me: This is so much bigger than Francis. In a culture where cheap and portable video technology lets everyone play at stardom, and where America's voyeuristic appetite for reality television seems insatiable, teenagers, like the ones in this club, see cameras as validation. "Most guys want to have sex with me and maybe I could meet one new guy, but if I get filmed everyone could see me," Bultema says. "If you do this, you might get noticed by somebody—to be an actress or a model."
I ask her why she wants to get noticed. "You want people to say, 'Hey, I saw you.' Everybody wants to be famous in some way. Getting famous will get me anything I want. If I walk into somebody's house and said, 'Give me this,' I could have it."
The article then goes on to describe a third women who is selected from the crowd, fed shots of alcohol, taken to "the bus" to be filmed, and then (off camera) deflowered by Francis.
What ideals are we selling to these women who believe sexual exhibition for someone else's profit will lead to fame, money and power?