WETLOOK THRILLS, DISAPPOINTMENTS AND IMPROBABLES

WETLOOK THRILLS

Wetlook fans know where to go to see or indulge in wetlook. If a film has a wet scene in it, the news will often go around the Internet – “Watch station X at 9.30 tomorrow, - They have Bo Derek’s Tarzan The Ape Man on.” Will be a typical newsgroup alert?

On a hot day, fountains and rivers can become popular places to go, so wetlook fans will head there to watch or join in with any fun that might take place, staking a place to get a good view with the same expertise as an ornithologist.

Film wise, any film that is set at sea, or features a river, lake, etc, promises potential for wetlook. Some films may show a wet image on their posters or in their trailers. A totally unexpected surprise wetlook film scene or real life opportunity to get wet or witness wetness in action is a real gift however. More often than not, you will be left feeling high and dry in more ways than one. In many ways, the disappointments make the trills all the more special. If we had a constant undiluted diet of wetlook, we would soon tire of the joys of wet clothing.

WETLOOK DISAPPOINTMENTS

Wetlook enthusiasts are plagued by Murphy’s Law (If something can go wrong, it will).

THE RELUCTANT PARTNER

It’s surprising how many wetlook fans find themselves stuck with sexual partners, and wives/husbands, etc who don’t like to get wet in their clothes, can’t swim and / or think swimming is stupid. Some people consider wetlook as disgusting as an admission to a liking for Golden Showers. An admission to finding pleasure in wetlook can sometimes terminate a relationship. Many wetlook fans become very secretive about their interest. This can be a mistake if a partner discovers the hobby by chance or by following a line of suspicion and snooping.

If wetlook is a ruling passion you cannot live without, it is better to tell your date about it early on in the relationship, and even to consider breaking up with them as an alternative to having limitations and sacrifices imposed on your desires. A lover who isn’t prepared to at least try wetlook once with you or for you are probably not going to take to other fetishes either so your love life with that person could become rather bland in the long run.

Having a lover who shares a total enthusiasm for getting wet at every opportunity is however, a rarity.

WETLOOK IN TV & CINEMA.

How much can go wrong here? Plenty.

1/. The film you watch, knowing it has a much praised wet scene proves to be so boring that by the time the late wetlook scene arises, you are asleep or you have given up watching.

2/. A girl is seen falling towards or into the water in a great outfit. The camera pulls away and you hear he splash, but her plight is not captured on camera. The film ends or moves on to a fresh scene.

3/. The heroines jump / fall / get pushed into the water – the credits roll over the action, or the film fades to black before they get to the surface.

4/. You buy the DVD in the hope of extra footage from a film’s wetlook scenes, such as a long making of feature in which the cast repeatedly have to get wet again for fresh takes but there are no relevant extras at all.

5/. A whole bunch of people end up in the water but the cameras focus on the men, or children or spectators watching from the shore. The women in the water are barely glimpsed.

6/. Teaser shots show the heroine about to throw herself, or fall into water, but someone pulls her back or distracts her just before she gets wet.

7/. A woman falls into a pool or into the sea, in full evening dress, but we see only her head rise above the water line.

8/. Camera shakes and wobbles effects, foggy haze, or out of focus, silhouettes and strange angles are used for arty effect and the wetlook scene at the heart of the imagery is totally obscured.

9/. A swimming pool or waterfront setting are prevalent throughout a long running series but no one ever ends up getting wet there, though you hear of it happening on occasions when you were not watching.

10/. There is a classic wetlook scene out there that you cannot find, and which no one but you ever remembers. You know it in every detail apart from who got wet and in which show or film. You describe it vividly to other wetlook fans, but no one else recalls it at all. It’s as though you dreamt it, and you probably did.

11/. The classic wet scene seen by everyone but you and highly acclaimed, but no one ever puts it on Youtube or compilation videos. You feel left out.

12/. Youtube film footage of a wet scene is so badly filmed that it becomes unwatchable.

13/. The big wet scene comes up, and someone phones you up or knocks on your door to sell you something. Everyone is dry again by the time you get back to the TV set.

You forgot to try to video the wetlook.

14/. A boat race often ends with the winning cox being thrown into the water by the rowers, - you watch if the crew has a lovely female cox but the TV crew cut away as soon as the winning boat crosses the finishing line.

15/. A wet tee-shirt event or video proves to be just a strip show – the shirts are torn off too quickly once soaked. Playboy Wet & Wild videos fall into the same category as the wet women discard their clothes almost instantly. The filmmakers prefer soaking nudity to wet clothes.

16/. There is plenty of wetlook, but the storyline featuring maritime tragedies or people in emotional trauma is too distressing to allow the wetlook to be truly erotic for the viewer.

POP VIDEO WETLOOK

1/. The editing is so frantic that the wetlook is almost subliminal and interspersed with utterly irrelevant and uninteresting other footage.

2/. The TV station shows only a short clip from the video, and its not the wetlook bit.

REAL LIFE WETLOOK DOWNERS

1/. On a really hot day you head to a popular wetlook venue and stay all day, but for no reason at all, no one goes in to get wet, or there are only men and children bothering.

2/. Rain stops play – it is too cold and wet and miserable to go out expecting to see wetlook or to want to get wet, at least outdoors.

3/. A girl looks as if she is going to go swimming in her clothes, but she chickens out at the last minute and either goes away or strips to swimwear first. If friends try to throw her in, they prove to be only teasing her or she resists fiercely and escapes their clutches.

4/. Someone wants to get wet fully dressed but killjoys among her friends talk her out of it so she doesn’t.

5/. You are in a car on a train passing some place where wetlook activity is going on, but it is too far away and you are unable to stop or change direction to go there. If you do head there, the activity will have ‘dried up’ before you arrive.

6/. Wet and happy women invite you to join them in the pool or fountain, but you genuinely have some pending appointment that prevents you from getting your clothes soaked. You have to decline.

7/. You have waited all day by the Sea to see someone jump in wearing her jeans. A girl chooses to just as you have to leave to catch your train home.

8/. A popular wetlook haunt suddenly declares that bathing, or at least law no longer allows that clothed bathing.

9/. Many private and hotel pools refuse to allow fully clothed swimmers to go in the water.

10/. Drunken hecklers turn up and mock, insult and intimidate the wet people for being stupid enough to swim in their clothes, forcing them go away to escape from the abuse.

WETLOOK HIGHLY IMPROBABLE.

A film in which girls swim in known murky rivers like the Thames which suddenly have water as crystal clear as the Caribbean. Thunderbirds are a case in point.

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