The dysfunctional state of the mainstream magazine industry is apparently not enough to dissuade the purveyors of the Girls Gone Wild video franchise from flashing the newsstand. According to Nate Ives of Advertising Age, Girls Gone Wild magazine will soon hit the streets with $9.99 worth of exuberant exhibitionism. Should Playboy (NYSE: PLA) worry?
I'm not particularly savvy on the magazine business, but I think I have the profit model here figured out. Girls Gone Wild haunts the spring break spots, enticing drunken college girls to bare their breasts and more for the camera, and hawks the videos on late night television.
Now, thousands of parents each year are suckered into buying those high school Who's Who books for the pleasure of proving to their relatives that their sons are not losers after all. Is it so hard to believe that the same parent wouldn't pony up a sawbuck for a picture of their daughter at her youthful peak of ripeness? I can imagine the magazine being proudly passed around at the family reunion, after the macaroni salad, before the softball game. "Gosh, is that really Nellie Sue?" says Aunt Jean. "That must have hurt," opines cousin Delores. "Let me borrow that for a minute," says young cousin Carl. "I'll bring it right back."
Yeah, parental pride is sure to lead to the success of the Girls Gone Wild magazine. For many parents, it will be a choice between that or her mug shot for the family Christmas card.
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Reader Comments (Page 7 of 7)
2-19-2008 @ 1:08AM
mike said...
Big deal, and to the one that said there are alot of perverts out there, you mean the guys or the girls?
They are showing their breast, I think they can live with that when they are older, unless they run for public office. I know I would not want to see Hillary topless.
2-19-2008 @ 1:08AM
mike said...
Go to Miami Beach, in South Beach they are topless at the pools, the beach. After the first day the girl has to be really attractive for you to pay any attention. But I agree if it offends you do not buy it, don't look, stay out of topless bars, or you can say how can we make such a big deal about losing fat and then buy a magizine that is showing it?
2-19-2008 @ 1:50AM
Marianne said...
I think it is very sad that girls think they have to show all they have to men to get their attention. But it is backfiring. Men need more and more skin and perverted acts to get hard and women have to go farther and farther to get attention. It is just a circle that only gets sicker. Girls....you show your breasts to any guys anytime and then wonder later why your boyfriend or husband strays......duh !!!! There's a lot of competition out there. You don't see guys out there taking off their clothes....I hear them say all the time.....we're not that stupid....so we are?????
2-19-2008 @ 2:02AM
Alice/Alan said...
I don't understand the difference between this and many things allowed in American society. Don't get me wrong, I am by no means a fan of Girls Gone Wild, but if we're going to freak out about this, maybe we should be looking at what is the real issue at hand. Marketing/Society tells girls as little as 4 or 5 that being "sexy" is what "you have to be." And if you're not "sexy" you're worthless. Don't believe me? How about Bratz dolls? How pre-teen clothes look more appropriate for hookers than 11-year-olds? I could go on. Girls [and women in general] are over-sexualized in American culture. As a college student, I feel embarassed about this expectation and am in ways jealous of Muslim girls, among other religions, that teach girls to cover up. To sum everything up, women don't respect themselves because they are taught to.
2-19-2008 @ 2:05AM
Charles said...
I have no respect for any female who conducts herself like a common whore. These females are promoting Lesbian activity. I have the utmost respectfor Lesbians ... but public acts of sexual activity (on film or in print) should be banned forever. If I could pass a message on to these sluts ,,, it would be ... "no man wants what anybody can get" Show some respect for your body and don't show everything you got.
2-19-2008 @ 3:00AM
crazy al said...
its funny all these people talking about if others had little girls bla bla bla...well if your little girls show up on those videos maybe you need to check back on you did as a parent...stop blaming society and take responsibilty for your own screw ups
2-19-2008 @ 3:18AM
Mark Anthony said...
America has lost it's moral compass and doesn't really want to find it....sad.
2-19-2008 @ 4:20AM
melbournebeach said...
Just like monicas dress she wore for bill clinton, this magazine is something these girls can save to show their grandchildren
2-19-2008 @ 4:38AM
EDDIE said...
THERES NOTHING LIKE LOOKING AT A NICE PAIR OF ROCKETS . AND MORALS ,WHAT MORALS ?
2-19-2008 @ 4:38AM
EDDIE said...
REMEMBER TO W.O.W. GIRLS .
2-19-2008 @ 5:52AM
Mike F said...
DEGRADING TO WOMEN.THIS TYPE OF SMUT SHOULD BE BANED ALL TOGETHER. NO NEED FOR THIS STUFF
2-19-2008 @ 6:28AM
Leo White said...
You set the standardsthe problem is dredging for your daughters body off the coast of some Aruba can be living hell - ask the Hollaways.
2-19-2008 @ 6:32AM
myself said...
THERE ARE NO MORALS LEFT IN THIS COUNTRY. THESE GIRLS ARE NOT MATURE ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE FULLY DOING. I VOTE FOR GOD AS PRESIDENT FOR 08. SOMEBODY BIGGER THAN US NEEDS TO FIX OUR MESS.
4-09-2008 @ 3:57PM
carmela said...
Hey! Dave you mentioned twosomes and threesomes but it makes more sense for women to be with 2 or 3 guys. Why- because we can enjoy them all at the same time.Figure it out. I won't go into details here.
2-19-2008 @ 10:32AM
Marianne said...
I think it's sad.....at almost any sporting event you have girls flashing or cheerleaders trying to see who can wear the least amount of clothes, awards being given out by girls in outfits they are spilling out of, girls waiting for men to come in from out of town for business meetings or conferences and I get tired of hearing from other guys that it's too bad we girls don't have that kind of eye candy flaunting in front of us....but then they wouldn't like that if it was their girlfriends or wives.
2-19-2008 @ 9:32PM
OneMadChick said...
know what pisses me off?? the person who wrote this article.
He (I didnt see who wrote it, but I bet you my butt its a man) makes the PREJUDICED stereotype of parents being proud of a son for his intellectual accomplishments (Who's Who) and a daughter for her sex appeal (GGW). Am I the only one that pisses off?
Get yourself a blowup doll, she will be the brainless, opinonless hot-body that you seem to think women should be.
Use her.
by the way this is a comment made by a college-age woman with both brains and sex appeal. And Ill most definately not be showing off the latter to please morons like the writer of this article.
No wonder people go lesbian. After reading this, I'm considering it. Please tell me not all men have this mindset!
2-22-2008 @ 9:01AM
Williams said...
If your daughter ends up showing her boobs in this mag the odds of her being in a 3-way video on the net somewhere is high.
2-23-2008 @ 12:26PM
renato said...
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2-23-2008 @ 5:45PM
dpc2224 said...
WOW! What's wrong with guys who don't like a little T/A! Lighten up. Flashing boobs doesn't make anyone a whore. Anyone need some beads? Nice! There you go.........
2-29-2008 @ 10:19AM
Marianne said...
If you guys think it's ok to look...then you wouldn't mind it if guys flashed their penis's for girls to see.....you obviously wouldn't mind your girlfriend looking at other men's penis's cause it's all in fun....right.