Anyone watching the Louis Theroux programme?

[Doyoumind]

Not the first he's done on the subject but I'm interested on his take.

[ScrimshawTheSecond]

This one?

[PaleBlueMoonlight]

Yes. I am expecting to be challenged, which is good.

[Ffsnosexallowed]

Bizarre

[SlightlyWizened]

My first reactions
Victoria-damaged
The art student-aspergers???
The older woman-'low self esteem'

Very sad so far.

[Boredbumhead]

Hmm odd. I really wouldn't have the energy!!

[Doyoumind]

I'm obviously biased but they do each seem to be ripe for exploitation.

[Ffsnosexallowed]

Misogynistic men taking advantage of vulnerable women.

[Fizzypoo]

It's very sad.

[SlightlyWizened]

omg the 14 year old daughter on telly. Thats not right.

[PaleBlueMoonlight]

She was told when she was 13. That is so young.

[SadlyMissTaken]

"My friend has booked me for his birthday"

[Doyoumind]

There's a lot to unpick here.

[Borris]

Depressing and sad

[Boredbumhead]

This older lady is a bit embarrassing and deluded. The clothes she's wearing are not flattering at all if I'm being really superficial.

[ScrimshawTheSecond]

Oh, crikey, I looked it up. Sorry, that was an inappropriate post earlier.

[Ffsnosexallowed]

I think it's interesting to see the real side of sex work. I don't think that disabled men buying sex is any more defensible than able bodied men doing it.

[LittleSweet]

I think the guy with muscular dystrophy is lonely and sad. I don't like prostitution, as it is someone being exploited. But I don't know if there is a place for disabled people to be able to have sex and for some disabled people the only way would be to pay. I really don't know what the answer is. I feel like yes they should but does that mean the sex worker is exploited or are they a carer?

[Doyoumind]

Louis is so good at probing into things and getting people to open up.

I feel sad for the married woman because it's like she felt that sex was the only way to increase her self esteem and make her value herself.

[Lobsterquadrille2]

It's the married couple who are the most ... strange. She's doing it to boost her self esteem but what's in it for him?

The 14 year old .... not good.

[Boredbumhead]

Louis is an excellent interviewer. The older laser actually seems a bit mentally unwell to me. She's quite disassociated. Her poor husband.

[Doyoumind]

Predicatably another story of abuse.

[SlightlyWizened]

And now Ashley turns out to be really damaged too.

[RedToothBrush]

The mother normalising prostitution and getting her daughter to repeat it, is disturbing. The daughter clearly doesn't understand what its doing to her mother and what is happening. And i suspect there will be real life fall out from the documentary.

Don't think it should be shown on tv.

[SlightlyWizened]

That family are very identifiable now. God knows what the fallout will be.

[TinselAngel]

Imagine going to school on Monday when everybody has seen you on telly with your Mum the night before, talking about how she's an "escort"/ porn actor.