#CHELSEA FILARSKI GIRLS GONE WILD TV#

But I don’t think anything was quite as universally enervating as the Girls Gone Wild commercials, which were essentially a highlight reel of Francis’ many sojourns into the most chaotic college campuses in America.

For my demographic - dudes in their late 20s and early 30s - typical touchstones include Max’s girlfriend from A Goofy Movie, the Christina Aguilera “Dirrty” video and the NSFW tab on the Flash cartoon database. There is a rich history of men comparing notes on their earliest sexual triggers. “I beat off with this in the background every now and then for old times sake.”.“Ahhhh, the sweet sound of covertly fondling my youthful genitalia.”.“Brings back so many memories from when I was younger and would stay up all night just to see these infomercials!”.Just look at the comments that dot a YouTube video that preserves that tropical Girls Gone Wild theme in its native form. Some of the sweaty implications were lost on me - I didn’t know what going “wild” meant, and I don’t think I’d even started masturbating yet - but that didn’t stop me from pouring out of bed every time I heard those clarion steel drums.Ĭlearly, I’m not the only one. The first pornography I ever consumed consisted of heavily censored scenes from Austin, Texas Columbus, Ohio and every other hotbed of university excess, teased out three times a night from every 18-and-up club in the country. Millennials like me just happened to be caught in the crossfire. The target market was emasculated dads, several decades removed from college, willing to plunk down 25 angry, horny dollars every month to reimagine a more virile version of their glory years. But somehow, the GGW estate - and its heavy reliance on euphemism and innuendo - slipped past the censors and mesmerized an entire generation of middle school boys.

Straight-up, no-holds-barred pornography was never allowed to occupy those commercial breaks, and the eternal lameness of 1-900 sex line ads never aroused me, even as a sinewy 12-year-old.

#CHELSEA FILARSKI GIRLS GONE WILD TV#

In the early aughts, Girls Gone Wild - a soft-core porn franchise starring amateur college-aged women - was an everlasting presence in cable TV marketing. TV Personalities Kourtney Kardashian, Joe Francis, Khloe Kardashian,Kim Kardashian arrive at the Girls Gone Wild Magazine Launch party held at Area Nightclub on Apin West Hollywood, California. My bedroom TV was almost always tuned to Spike TV or Comedy Central - prime hunting grounds for late-night interstitial smut - and even when I was drifting off to the ethereal sounds of endless South Park reruns, my limbic system sparked back to life as soon as it sensed the spirit of Joe Francis. Nothing pierced through my pubescent sleep patterns quite like those Girls Gone Wild steel drums.

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