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A Gawker poll has named Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis as Douche of the Decade. He edged out Tucker Max and overwhelmingly beat everyone else, including American Apparel's Dov Charney. Francis, who completed a Business Administration degree and Entrepreneur Program at USC, has been a societal blight, from general douchecanoe-ness to underaged porn to tax evasion to asking the federal government to bailout the porn industry. But, really, you don't need to go beyond much other than his interview with Rolling Stone to understand why he earned this: "More than anything else, Girls Gone Wild started off as a product of my sexual fantasy... Girls look really good from age eighteen to twenty-five. It's just a fact that that's the best time for girls. Afterward, things start to happen — bad things."
