Once I became an adult, I’d all but forgotten about Girls Gone Wild, filing it away as just another piece of ’00s misogyny that I and many other women somehow (barely) survived. But, when I watched Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story, that undercurrent I felt throughout the 2000’s and 2010’s came flooding back one-hundred-fold. Here are 31 moments from the documentary series that prove just how little we valued women and girls during that time — and how, in 2024, we still have a long way to go:
Warning: This post discusses rape, domestic violence, and sexual assault.
Joe Francis declined an on-camera interview to address claims made in the documentary.
