gwg777 Freedom From Harassment and Exploitation on Social Media, but Not for Girls

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In a new documentary about “Girls Gone Wild” — a franchise that consisted of VHS tapes and DVDs of girl-next-door types exposing themselves and participating in pornographic scenes — several of the women who were featured as teenagers come forward. Now in their 30s and 40sgwg777, they say they were coerced into being filmed or were too drunk to consent. They talk about the trauma and harassment they continue to experience.

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“There was a lot of Zimas in and out of my system,” says Lori in “Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story,” who was 16 at the time she was captured flashing a camera in 1999. Another woman, Danille, who was 18 when she was filmed, says that a cameraman blocked the exit to the room she was in and that “I was so naïve, I didn’t realize I could say no.” Most upsetting, a woman named Janet says the harassment that followed her after her appearance on “Girls Gone Wild” was so impossible to get away from, “there were times where I felt so embarrassed that I wanted to, like, kill myself. I didn’t want to be here. You can’t escape it.”

Trista, who explains that she was intoxicated when she consented at age 19 to being filmed and has no memory of it, says, “Back then, you didn’t think about social media. You didn’t think about the internet. You could do what you wanted without having to worry about it coming back.”

Because of social media, the decades-old humiliation of these women is now permanent. Footage from the videos, which were ubiquitous in the late 1990s and early 2000s, is online. Many of the women in it got very little compensation — in some cases, a hundred bucks, a T-shirt, a hat. Some who say they were filmed without their consent or filmed when they were underage won settlements, and the Department of Justice was successful in bringing charges against “Girls Gone Wild” in 2006 for failing “to create and maintain age and identity documents for performers in sexually explicit films.”

But others — even girls who were filmed when they were as young as 13 — did not receive restitution. Some women still get creeps sliding into their DMs 20 years later because they were once featured in a “Girls Gone Wild” commercial. Imagine if your identity was forever tied to something that happened for nine seconds before you could drink legally.

Meanwhile,fef777 Joe Francis, the man who created “Girls Gone Wild,” profited handsomely from it; as of 2023, he was living in a lavish, 45,000-square-foot beachfront estate in Punta Mita, Mexico. He has no regrets about the videos because he frames himself as a champion of personal freedom. “All women are independent in their thinking, and all women make their own decisions,” he explains in the last moments of the documentary. “Women in ‘Girls Gone Wild,’ they choose to be in ‘Girls Gone Wild.’”

The play’s producers asked Mason to fill in for Farrow, according to the show’s spokesman, Rick Miramontez. The lead producer, Chris Harper, explained the situation to the audience; the vast majority stayed, and Mason was greeted with a standing ovation when she walked onstage with LuPone. She performed with script in hand, occasionally flubbing a line, but only minimally, given her familiarity with the show and its staging.

“It has been a great honor to serve the city,” she wrote in a brief letter to the mayor on Saturday. “I am tendering my resignation, effective today, as I have concluded that I can no longer effectively serve in my position. I wish you nothing but the best.”

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