For my vote, I agree with Kopema about the 'realism' of the situation not being the most important factor. In fact, I love those scenes where something supernatural, malicious trickery or a (series of) wildly implausible accident(s) is responsible for the stripping of our heroine.
I disagree that seeing the same girl losing her clothes over and again would get boring; on the contrary, I think this adds greatly to the 'E' in the ENF - especially when no one else is having this problem and the character conveys a feeling of true embarassment and mortification (along the lines of 'why is this always happening to me?')
Of course, this requires a willing suspension of disbelief - but why is that a problem? The genre is after all implicitly one of fantasy/comedy dissimilar to any other type of erotica. The archytype for this is the 'girl who can't keep her clothes on' through no fault of her own, as for example Jane, Carrie, Jenny, Paula Schultz etc...
Finally, I think the trick is to keep it light-hearted and avoid mean-spiritedness (another reason to steer clear of realism in these scenarios), while at the same time not being afraid to the let the scene linger on the nudity and moment of the exposure. After all many of the best scenes of this type (as in Zapped, Jane etc...) are let down ultimately by being too brief or non-nude so as not to alientate the mainstream audience - a problem we don't have here. Extending the embarassment by compelling the girl (through some suitably contrived set of reasons) to stick around while still naked or semi-naked would achieve this - and would be especially funny/ erotic if everyone is vocally trying to make light of her situation or pretending to ignore it while she cringes in embarassment. In that context, it may then make sense to have a superficial main plot to the story (separate from the ENF component) that allows the action to move on and to create/ contrive situations in which the scenarios can be set up that lead to the ENF moments. This may be why the best (in my opinion) examples of this in film to date are Jane (war time/ spying main plot), Paula Scultz (spying), Zapped (sci fi/ fantasy)
One alternative to the above I would love to see would be to do a filmed version of the Cronenburg School type stories, focusing again on the stripping and embarassment. Again though, the attempt shouldn't be made to make it seem realistic/ plausible - it would fall flat on its face and be embarassing for the wrong reasons. It is a fantasy, and should be played as one.
Just my thoughts...
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