No question, a number of American women engage in "Slutty" behavior here in the US, ala "Girls Gone Wild", but it seems to increase when those who might be well behaved in the US,  go to Europe to "Sow their Wild Oats" 
But Do the American Women almost Unanimously deserve their "Slutty" Reputation in Europe?   Or do the "representations" of  American women as sexual sluts on Films and TV  create an Exaggerated  "Image" that European Men have. 
If you believe that the MEDIA has NO effect on creating Negative Images of People, then you believe that the US Women deserve their "Slutty" Image. 
Then you also probably believe that "Jersey Shore" Guidos , "The Sopranos" et al, had No Negative effect on the Italian American Image.
And you probably are IGNORANT enough to believe that the Advertising, and Public Relation Industries do NOT Influence people, and  believe that All News and Media are absolutely TRUE and ACCURATE, with No Bias, Prejudice, or SPIN. 
Loose, stupid American women arriving in Europe just to shop and drink are not new.  Images of young, scantily clad, hip-thrusting American girls have been exported far and wide for decades  And still girls gone bad, spending their time overseas wantonly without the judgmental watch of parents continues.
 "American girls are always drunk, and they are easy, horny and good in bed" "Americans bump and grind their private parts while "freak" (F**K) dancing,  American college girl abroad - sexually uninhibited, naive and perhaps a bit culturally out of step. "...  "American girls come to Italy with an expectation of fun and romance, much like the 1953 Gregory Peck and Hepburn starrer Roman Holiday." 
Some women are easily seduced by the soundtrack of accordions, flowers thrown from second-floor windows, a sexy foreign language whispered into the ear, and promises that will not be kept. 
"It plays into the fact that girls think that they are living in a movie," she said. "It's a perfect set up for guys who are trying to pick up girls! You think this is so romantic , but in reality, it's totally not. It's not a real thing. It's just a pickup." ...

Big, busty, out-of-control and available on call are just some of the tags that American women deal wiith outside their homeland. 

In the movie "Love Actually", a geeky British guy bets everything on a plane ticket to the American midwest , betting that American women are beautiful, friendly and ready to have sex with the next British accent that walks through the barroom door. He is not disappointed. When he returns to London, he brings the busty Denise Richards, who plants a big wet one on his friend as an introduction. 

"When we think of American girls, we think of pillow fights and girls running around half-naked," laughed Nir Meir, a 28-year-old Israeli from Tel Aviv. People of most countries in the world see American women just like the women seen in movies about "typical" college life, he said. "These movies bring out the most extreme stereotypes about women, but that's where we get our impressions," he shrugged. 

It's easy to see why. Images of young, scantily clad, hip-thrusting American girls have been exported far and wide for decades through video, movies, television and print ads. "He really loves women like that," said American student Miro Cassetta about her 14-year-old host brother in France, an eager consumer of  MTV videos. "And he thinks that American women are going to be like that." 
Critics of Amanda Knox, an American student in Italy convicted of murdering her British roommate, cited her alleged American hyper-sexuality as reason to convict... "A lot of French people think that America is like MTV, like The Hills, The Next, American Pie and all of that," said Meaghan Dill in Paris. 

Although most of these shows and films are promoted as "reality TV" by their producers , media critics have pointed out that episodes are loosely scripted and characters are actors pretending to be real. In America, most viewers understand that reality TV is not real. "Many French people ask me if my life is like MTV," Dill sighed. 

Stereotypes of loose, stupid American women arriving in Europe just to shop and drink are not new. In his book "Seductive Journey", Harvey Levenstein describes this perception as far back as the late 19th century . Henry James' novel Daisy Miller, about a girl whose flirtatiousness led to her early death, became a byword for American tourists in France in 1878. Even the word "flirt" became popular in France specifically to describe Americans. 

Today, the picture is painted of girls gone bad, spending their time overseas wantonly without the judgmental watch of parents and society. Smiling and friendliness - as American as McDonald's - sends the wrong signals abroad.... American women who smile, maintain eye contact and extend a strong handshake can be seen as offensively aggressive. Reality and fantasy often swirl in hazy and inaccurate smoke signals across the Big Pond and beyond. 

Kikko Lombardo, a DJ and bartender in Rome who promotes parties for international students through Facebook, described the typical stereotype in Italy as "American girls are always drunk, and they are easy, horny and good in bed" . 
At bars and clubs where American students get to know local students outside the classroom, cultural cues can be confusing and misinterpreted. 

"Americans bump and grind their private parts while freak dancing," said Tasha Prados of the University of North Carolina, who studied in Madrid in spring 2009, "Europeans maintain some distance from each other. Their dancing is more chaste; less sexual." 

Freak dancing is defined as bumping, grinding and dry humping one's body against another's , according to the website www.lovetoknow.com. "In Puerto Rico, it is known as 'perrero,' which comes from the Spanish word for dog." The word "freak" is a synonym for a four-letter word starting with F    that GlobalPost declines to publish. 

American women studying abroad defend their gender, saying little more than American friendliness and openness can result in odd social encounters with men. Touring the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Dill was harassed by strangers when they heard her accent. "It was just very bizarre," she recalled. They said "you are Americans, we want to take you home." She said she did not believe it was to meet their mothers. 

Leah Weyers and Katie Schumacher, American students in Rennes, France, said drunken Frenchmen proposed paying them in exchange for sex. They said they were touched inappropriately. "I don't believe the Amanda Knox case has had any impact on the image of American women abroad," said Andrea Vogt, a freelance journalist based in Italy who covered the case. Aside from her role in the murder, there were also a number of cultural differences at play that led some to brand her as the stereotypical American college girl abroad - sexually uninhibited, naive and perhaps a bit culturally out of step. "...

Rachel Fein, who also studied abroad in Italy, said she thinks Italian men perceive American women as innocent and naive. Italian men "think we don't understand their culture, and are more vulnerable or easy to manipulate," she said. 

Based on student evaluations after their study abroad, students are often culturally shocked and surprised, said Eka Gabelia, assistant director of admissions for SIT Study Abroad. "In some countries, women receive more male attention, maybe thay would be appropriate in other cultures. Like it might be culturally appropriate for a man to follow a woman in one country whereas in the US this would not be," she said. "Also, our American students also smile a lot and that smile might be interpreted as more than just a friendly gesture." ...

The stereotype Italian men have of American women comes from, "American girls come to Italy with an expectation of fun and romance, much like the 1953 Gregory Peck and Hepburn starrer Roman Holiday." 

Some women are easily seduced by the soundtrack of accordians, flowers thrown from second-floor windows, a sexy foreign language whispered into the ear, and promises that will not be kept. 
"It plays into the fact that girls think that they are living in a movie," she said. "It's a perfect set up for guys who are trying to pick up girls! You think this is so romantic , but in reality, it's totally not. It's not a real thing. It's just a pickup." ...
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