“Girls Gone Wild,” the Ocean Cruise?

As scary as that sounds, the idea is apparently being discussed. It’s mentioned, though only in passing, in a profile of the video company’s founder in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times Magazine. I can see the TV commercials now: Scantily clad women frolicking—I mean, “going wild”—in the ship’s pool to Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life.” Many rightfully thought that song was an awful choice for Royal Caribbean’s commercials (as one Slate reader put it: “Nothing says maritime comfort like a song about shooting up junk”). It would be perfect for “Girls Gone Wild” cruises: “Here comes Johnny Yen again / With the liquor and drugs / And a flesh machine / He’s gonna do another strip tease.”

On a vaguely related note, in April, the Onion published a groundbreaking anthropological story about some of the Girls who have Gone Wild: Girls Gone Wild Released Back Into Civilization.

It opens: “In what wildlifestyle reformation volunteers are calling a ‘positive step,’ the first group of rehabilitated Girls Gone Wild were released back into the civilized world Monday, and early signs indicate that they are adjusting smoothly, according to the director of the group responsible for their rescue.”

Whew. That’s a very positive step. You go, girls who have gone wild. Welcome back to civilization.

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