girls.. strike that… guys gone wild?
Like it or not, pretty much everyone has been up late at night and seen the Girls Gone Wild, commercials with girls showing their breasts to camera men along with doing various sexual actions in the back of a tour bus or hotel room bathroom. Late one night while watching tv, a commercial came on that was similar in nature. I was about to change the channel when I heard the Jamaican music when I realized that it wasn’t Girls Gone Wild, but rather Guys Gone Wild. I found the commercial hilarious. I could not help but watch. At first I thought it was a joke. I really did not think that it was a serious commercial. But after the commercial ended I realized that it was for real. I found it just strange. It was not like the girl ones where girls were flashing the camera, it was guys wrestling and then randomly taking showers or showing their penis’s. It just seemed really strange. It seemed totally staged compared to the girl ones where it seems more spur of the moment. I began to think, if I found this commercial funny, rather than a turn on to make me want to purchase the product, what did other girls think? The idea of guys wrestling on the beach just didn’t’ turn me on like I would imagine a girl flashing her breasts or messing around with another girl would do for a guy. Then it hit me. I realized that women may not be the real target of this advertisement; rather gay men might be the real target. I am just curious to see if anyone else has seen these ads and what their impression was of them because I just for one reason or another found them weird, yet funny.
girls gone… really bad?
This past Sunday in between checking my email and vegging, I began to watch a VH1 show all about people who have tried to extort money out of celebrities by using many different methods of extortion. The one story I found I thought was a good topic to write about for this class. It involved Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis and Paris Hilton. One night upon entering his residence, Francis was attacked, held at gun point, bound with duct tape, and forced to repeat the words “I’m from Boys Gone Wild and I like it in the ass,” all of which was being caught on tape with the purpose of using it later to extort Francis. He was then thrown into the back of his Bentley, driven to town, and left under the threat that if he got the police involved, he would be killed. After freeing himself he went straight to the police. Phone taps were placed on his phone lines and captured the extortionist’s attempts to extort over $3 million out of the millionaire. Some time later, Paris Hilton’s apartment was broken into with various tapes of her doing sexual things with former boyfriend Nick Carter. It was later that Paris Hilton told Francis that she had overheard a man named Darnell Riley, an ex-con who did time for murder and had somehow penetrated the Hollywood celebrity scene, discussing how he and an accomplice were responsible for the attack on Francis’s Bel Air mansion. Francis went to the police and Riley was arrested. Riley copped to one count of robbery and one count of attempted extortion. He was sentenced to 10 years and eight months in state prison. I am not sure if I just wasn’t paying attention to the news, or that I just missed this story, but when I heard it I found it interesting and something that was related to porn and this class.
disgusted but it made me thing
While watching the lectures, when the statistic of the number of children who saw porn in the year 2002 came on the screen I was shocked and disgusted. I guess I always knew that it was probably a large number since a lot of the time you can end up on a porn site just by clicking on something on accident, but still I think that it is disgusting. According to our lecture, in 2002, 16% of visitors to adult websites were children with ¾ of those websites containing sexual material on their first page. Like professor Halavais said, there really isn’t anyone who would agree that children viewing porn is a good thing. I know if I had children I would not want them to be viewing pornography, especially if it was just popping up on the screen when they aren’t even looking for it. At the same time I understand the concerns for not violating the first amendment for adults while trying to protect children, but I still believe something has to be done in order to prevent children from viewing porn. Of course there will always be those children who are curious and seek out such things as porn, but at the same time I believe that it shouldn’t just be popping up in popups all the time. After thinking about it for a while, I think the best possible solution is to make as many security check stops as possible to stop those who are not old enough to be viewing that material, along with not allowing sites to post porn on their first, second, or maybe even third page. By doing this even if a child did happen to stumble upon a site on accident, they wouldn’t be bombarded with pornographic images Another thing that I would change is that porn popups would not be allowed so that children didn’t have them popping up on their computer when trying to do a school project, and those who were underage would have to go through a lot just to view anything and hopefully not want to be bothered. I definitely feel that something needs to be done, but I can see why making a decision about what exactly to do is such a difficult decision to make.
fashioned sexuality
I am currently taking a sociology class called Introduction to Social Change. The one topic that we discussed was the writer Focult. He believed that we are fashioned people. He believed that even our sexuality is fashioned. In other words, we do not really have for ourselves any idea of what we find sexy, it has been fashioned to what is the normal standard in today’s society. In some respects I think that this is true. Most guys are attracted to boobs and butts, but on the other hand I disagree with it. I think that maybe it isn’t that everyone is fashioned to like the same thing. In reality it is just our human nature and something that has been built into us for a long time. If you take a look at animals in nature, they tend to find the same things attractive. Males use the same techniques trying to show off the same things. Maybe this is the same with humans. Some people do find things that may be termed a fetish, such as feet, to be a turn on, but for the most part people find the same things attractive. I just found this to be an interesting topic and wanted to explore it a little more in a setting outside of that classroom and thought that this might be a good place to do so.
what is cheating??
After watching last weeks lectures about what constitutes sex and how would you feel if your partner was having phone sex or some other form of interactive sex and whether or not that would be cheating, I began to think about how I would feel if something like this was happening in my relationship. I think if I found out that my boyfriend was having phone sex with someone behind my back I would be upset. I agree with what the one girl said during the lecture, if it something that you feel the need to hide, it probably is wrong. I would feel like even though there is no physical contact, I would feel like he cheated on me. When you are in a committed relationship I believe that anything sexual is something that should only be shared between the two of us. That is one of the reasons why you become involved in a committed relationship, to have that amount of intimacy between the two of you. I think it would be the fact that the other person is able to respond to his actions or what he says is what makes it so different form porn. At least when someone is watching porn that has been recorded, it is a one way communication. The television or computer has no response to the person’s actions; it is only the person who has a response. If someone is having phone sex or cyber sex there is that interaction on both ends. Both people are able to respond and communicate what exactly that it is that they want the other to do, in other words, there is some sort of intimacy. I don’t know if I am just old fashioned or up with the times with things of this nature, but what I do know is that if this was happening to me, I would feel hurt and cheated on.
