Girls Gone Wild
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Image:Girls gone wild logo.gifThe Girls Gone Wild franchise, created by upstart guru Joe Francis, is a series of videos by United States softcore pornography production company Mantra Entertainment. The videos are sold via mail order and are frequently advertised on late-night television, with a brief "warning" message before the commercial begins.
Primarily marketed to young adult men, Girls Gone Wild videos depict young women exposing their breasts, genitalia, and/or buttocks, removing their clothing, performing limited sexual acts, and so forth. Sometimes the crew will follow a group of girls back to a hotel or other location and tape them engaging in limited sexual acts with each other. The videos have themes such as Live from Spring Break or Sexy Sorority Sweethearts and involve a camera crew patrolling an area in search of attractive women who agree to flash, usually in exchange for a T-shirt.
Some are critical of the series, alleging objectification of women and resultant sexism. Others, including women, do not agree with this analysis, alleging personal freedom and choice.
Legally, exposing oneself in a public area constitutes no expectation of privacy; moreover, GGW staffmembers claim they get every flasher to sign a liability waiver.1 The legal effect of these factors has resulted in a waiver of some women and girls' rights to bring a civil action against GGW. In 2004 in Panama City, Florida, a judge ruled that video footage of females under the age of 18 exposing their breasts without physical or sexual contact is not child pornography.
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Knockoffs
The franchise has become so successful in recent years that several knockoff videos visibly less professionally produced than the GGW standard have emerged bearing the "Girls Gone Wild" name. These videos lack any other apparent connection to the Girls Gone Wild franchise; for instance, they lack the typical stylized intro and on-camera narration from the show's producers, and contain no end credits of any kind -- thus they also do not contain the Mantra Entertainment logo the way the highly-publicized GGW videos do.
These particular videos have crews that will patrol the streets of Mardi Gras, Las Vegas festivals, and other similar events claiming to be Girls Gone Wild staffpeople, and will even be replete with several convincing Girls Gone Wild t-shirts. Videos compiled from the use of this technique have been released, at least via the Internet, under innocuous names like Girls Gone Wild on Campus and Girls Gone Wild: College Girls Exposed. Whether these videos are indeed legitimate Girls Gone Wild projects does not seem to have been addressed by Joe Francis or Mantra Entertainment.
Guys Gone Wild
In July 2004, Mantra Entertainment introduced a new addition to its products — a Guys Gone Wild video series. The same framework applies, only this time attractive guys are the ones being wild for the camera. After many requests for something such as this, a plan was formed. The company just recently released the first series of videos. Some reviewers believe Guys Gone Wild will not hold as much of an appeal for the demographic of young women, and will instead ultimately be of interest to gay men.
Partial list of Girls Gone Wild videos (unconfirmed)
- Girls Gone Wild (1998)
- Girls Gone Wild: with Doug Stanhope (2000)
- Girls Gone Wild: Doggy Style (2002) (hosted by Snoop Dogg)
- Girls Gone Wild: America Uncovered (2004)
- Girls Gone Wild: Games (2005)
- Girls Gone Wild: Bad Girls
- Girls Gone Wild: Girls Who Like Girls
- Girls Gone Wild: Dormroom Fantasies
- Girls Gone Wild: Road Trip
- Girls Gone Wild: Ultimate Spring Break
- Girls Gone Wild: Spring Break 2005
- Girls Gone Wild: Extreme
- Girls Gone Wild: Beach Babes
- Girls Gone Wild: Girl Power (also Girl Power Volume 9, another legitimate production)
- Girls Gone Wild: Best of Ultimate Spring Break
- Girls Gone Wild: Mardi Gras Invasion
- Girls Gone Wild: Co-Ed Tryouts
- Girls Gone Wild: Co-Ed Tryouts 2
- Girls Gone Wild: The Seized Video
See also
- nudity
- modesty
- indecent exposure (includes definition of "flashing")