"Show your tits!" and "Take it off!" have become the familiar soundtrack of spring break and the videos at voyeur Web sites. Under banners flashing text and women flashing breasts, a site exclaims: "These girls are crazy and they don't care who sees."

However, in the rowdiness of Spring Break these girls may not know cameras are rolling at all.

In March of 2000, eight female UF freshmen traveled to Key West for Spring Break. With thousands of college coeds, they filled the beaches by day, but had a hard time getting into the bars at night.

Photo Illustration by Claudia Katz

"The first night sucked," says Trudy*, a hospitality management senior. "We couldn't get in anywhere because we were underage."

On the second night, they started drinking and went downtown, again with little luck. A bouncer at a popular 21-and-up nightspot said he would let them in if they entered a wet T-shirt contest. Trudy says they agreed but didn't think they would actually have to participate.

"We were joking around about being in it, but it was a total joke," she says.

Five of the friends immediately were escorted to an area that looked like a storage room. It was missing parts of the roof, boards were nailed to the walls and cement and debris was scattered across the floor.

About 20 women, mostly college students, filled the room. A few professional strippers seemed to be completely at ease as they taunted the amateurs and boasted that they were going to win. Male employees walked around with bottles and told the women to tilt their heads back as they poured liquor into their mouths and shotgunned beer down their throats.

"Before I went on stage the first time, I passed out," Trudy says. "I fell on some of the cement and bricks."

One of the contestants woke her up and told her to get on stage. The rest is a blur.

She has vague memories of cameras flashing, of falling on her back on stage and having to be helped up, of people yelling things like "Take it off!" She says she always kept her underwear and heels on.

Each of the three rounds got rowdier. She was told other contestants were performing sexual acts on each other, putting their feet on banisters and using beer bottles in obscene ways. The announcer asked her to perform sexual favors for him.

She doesn't remember feeling any emotion on stage.

"I was just going through the motions," she says as she explains that much of what she remembers is what people told her. "I was just so out of it. I didn't even realize we won."

She and her two friends each received $100, and her other two friends, who placed third, received a free parasailing lesson. She left wearing a shirt that was ripped and crudely tied around her waist because her dress was stolen. continued on next page>>

*Real names were changed to protect source