This is pretty shocking news:  37-year old Joe Francis, founder of Girls Gone Wild, is getting married. Sort of. It’s shocking to me for obvious reasons but also because until recently, he was dating one of my friends, against my vehement protests to her. 


The bride to be is his on-again, off-again girlfriend of four years, Los Angeles-based CBS reporter Christina McLarty. Francis told Page Six that he and McLarty won’t be taking a mainstream route for their actual wedding. “We have chosen to have a civil domestic partnership because we don’t believe it’s appropriate to be married until our gay and lesbian friends are afforded the same rights as us to legally marry in the United States,” he said. 


My Two Cents Worth: Wow –That’s a good one men; you should remember that excuse if you are gun-shy about getting hitched. Having a civil domestic partnership for a straight couple with ability to have a civil wedding sounds like a pretty smart way to pretend to get serious, you know, without really getting serious.