Joe Francis - Girls Gone Wild

Joe Francis - Girls Gone Wild
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Of all the late 90s and 2000s cultural phenomena to come under
recent scrutiny – the Pam and Tommy sex tape, Woodstock 99,
Abercrombie & Fitch, over-inflated Silicon Valley startups,
Britney Spears, Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” – Girls Gone
Wild is arguably the least surprisingly toxic. Started in 1997 by a
fratty entrepreneur named Joe Francis, Girls Gone Wild sold VHS and
then DVD videos of co-ed women, almost always intoxicated, baring
their breasts on some hedonistic spring break trip in exchange for
free underwear or hats.Francis dominated the soft-core porn market
in the early internet days; millions of people purchased footage of
the girls – often barely over 18 and sometimes younger,
predominantly white, thin and blonde – getting badgered by
cameramen to take more shots, take their tops off, make out with
their friends, use sex toys on themselves. Obviously, this has not
aged well. (Nor was it without controversy at the time.)








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