… Gone Wild!
Y’know…
The man who created that there “Girls Gone Wild” franchise, recently shuttled through the Judicial process for, I don’t know, unwittingly including 16 and 17 year olds in his exhibition tapes…
Or something like that…
Ugh.
Okay. Imagine you have a 13 year old son. You have two choices. Either he has a stash of pornography or a stash of Girls Gone Wild videos. Which would you prefer, which is to ask, which sends the worst message to your 13 year old son? It’s a tricky question in that you have to think for a moment and realize that the ladies in the porn were likely paid, and at any rate are engaged in — you’d suppose– satisfying sex (at least the script says so), and the “Girls Gone Wild” were given… a t-shirt, maybe, to flash their breasts, because… the message for the lad is… girls are exhibitionists and by all rights, are societally obligated to act accordingly.
Never mind.
Something popped into my mind sometime ago when looking at some comic strips at The Comics Curmudgeon. It might have been somewhere else, as a search for “Gone Wild” on this site brings up slim pickings. It is the ubiquity of a punchline of “[Blank] Gone Wild”. Hardy har. Blank… Gone Wild.
Thinking about it I have a simple request. Can we put that one that line to rest? I think we can more or less reach a consensus on the sleaziness and bad faith of the “Girls Gone Wild” series — a guilty pleasure at best (not that there’s anything wrong with guilty pleasures, but run with that accordingly), and pegging it into a gag simply solidifies it into a sort of pop culture iconography which it doesn’t really deserve.