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August 18, 2006


Everybody Wants to be Famous in Some Way

‘Baby, Give Me a Kiss’ by Claire Hoffman

A sick and sad story about some lowlife named Joe Francis.

Joe Francis, the founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” empire, has aimed his cameras at a generation whose notions of privacy and sexuality are different from any other. Nursed on MySpace profiles and reality television, many young people today are comfortable with being perpetually photographed and having those images posted on the Internet for anyone to see… youth culture is soaked in sexuality.

In a culture where cheap and portable video technology lets everyone play at stardom, and where America’s voyeuristic appetite for reality television seems insatiable, teenagers see cameras as validation.

- via Howard French -

UPDATE: “Girls Gone Wild” CEO Pleads Guilty in Sexual Exploitation Case

This entry was posted on Friday, August 18th, 2006 at 8:53 am (utc+8) and is filed under Personal.

2 Responses to “Everybody Wants to be Famous in Some Way”

  1. Howard Lindzon said:
    August 18th, 2006 at 1:44 pm

    a real sweetheart

  2. C. Maoxian said:
    August 18th, 2006 at 6:51 pm

    Howard: Probably not unlike any other pornographer … yech, what a nasty business.

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