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Naked Attraction - I'm beyond shocked.

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SilverySurfer · 18/09/2019 22:30

I was flicking through channels looking for something to watch and this came on. I had no idea it's title meant they were actually naked! What possesses anyone, man or woman to go on television completely stark naked? Is is just me who's being an old fuddy duddy to be horrified at this? The words embarrassed and cringemaking don't begin to cover it IMO.

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zeezee3 · 18/09/2019 23:28

One woman on there the other week claimed to be a Christian/Churchgoer, and part of the Choir (Could have been the same one you saw @IDontDrinkTea )

All she did was talk about cock, having her fanny tickled with a foot, and having a man's balls in her face. I am no prude, but she was filthy and gross and grim. I am middle aged and my DC are in their 20s, and we were all like 'ewwwwwwwwwwwww' Shock

I don't know what the F she was trying to prove. She came across as weird, disturbed, and unhinged.

FurrySlipperBoots · 18/09/2019 23:30

All I can think is that Naked Attraction is mostly out-of-work actors earning themselves a few quid. But then people will do these things just for the kick of being on TV. I always found that Embarrassing Bodies program weird. It's like, 'I'm too shy to show my GP my dodgy genitals so I'll show the nation instead - big shout out to Jim and Sandra from the office!'.

Babybel90 · 18/09/2019 23:30

I fell asleep whilst watching the judge Rinder thing and woke up half way through the infamous ‘Judith’ episode, I literally couldn’t turn it off, it was like watching a car crash!

I do think a lot of the younger participants are going to grow to regret it, especially with the internet it’s out there for everyone to see for ever. I know someone who made a bit of a tug of themselves on a tv game show about 20 years ago and he got recognised in the street a few times and he found that bad enough, at least he wasn’t naked!

youngestisapsycho · 18/09/2019 23:31

Well the Naked chef wasn’t naked!😂

Babybel90 · 18/09/2019 23:31

That should say tit not tug.

FlowerBasket · 18/09/2019 23:31

Meh, it's a naked body, we've all got one underneath our clothes Smile. I personally couldn't/wouldn't be completely naked on TV myself but I don't get freaked out by those who choose to do it. Obviously the programme is made for light entertainment, but behaviours modelled and the way contestants (?) are dealt with is respectful and it's not done in a salacious kind of manner, I don't think. It's been running for years now and seems to be a bit of a niche/under the radar programme, as in it hasn't made waves or tried to be or do more than it says on the tin such as making celebs of the contestants etc. As a PP says, it's not an erotic show.

I personally think it's often less about the level of nakedness that makes something shocking, than the slant, language, overt sexuality etc subtext. There are plenty of programmes which show a lot less of a human body but manage to be far more salacious/grubby/disrespectful than this one.

BishBashBoshy · 18/09/2019 23:31

I like the bit where the two finalists have to critique each other's bodies. The presenter says "So what do you think of each other?" and the naked people invetitably say "you have lovely eyes", and "I like the tattoo of a skull on your arm".

Then the picked comes out naked and they all sort of stand their awkwardly looking at each other. With the presenter fully dressed asking "is his willy big enough for you?".

I do watch it sometimes. It's awful but funny.

Hopesorfears · 18/09/2019 23:32

I'm loving the fact that pickachew told the 70-something OP to grow up! Grin
I'd rather live in a Jane Austen novel than an episode of Naked Attraction any day.

BanKittenHeels · 18/09/2019 23:36

If you think regular naked attraction is mad check out Judith who was on there recently

I have never in my life seen anything like that episode. I’ve watched NA once or twice before and had no intention of watching much more but we were flicking through the channels a couple of weeks ago and heard some of the stuff Judith was coming out with and ended up watching with our mouths opened. Shock

Shockers · 18/09/2019 23:37

The woman who got them dancing as she (apparently a grade 8 pianist) played a hymn with one finger, was so open about cocks and girth and her own ‘pussy’- I couldn’t decide whether to cringe, or be impressed by her confidence.

If she’d been male, I would’ve definitely cringed, which is perhaps unfair.

Shockers · 18/09/2019 23:38

Was she Judith?

MrsPellegrinoPetrichor · 18/09/2019 23:39

If you think regular naked attraction is mad check out Judith who was on there recently.....she was something else

She is responsible for dh and I collapsing into fits of giggles every time clotted cream is innocently mentionedGrin

PickAChew · 18/09/2019 23:42

I'm aware of OP's age. Their naivete about the show is unconvincing, though. My 70 something mum has access to the exact same TV as my almost 50 self.

MyCatsHat · 18/09/2019 23:42

Ha ha OP I was the same as you when I first saw it - I stumbled across it in exactly the same way and I was like this Shock Shock Shock And I’m in my 40s (just!).

But I was quite impressed in a way, that actually they don’t all look like models and people’s bodies are all so different, and I found it quite reassuring. (Apart from them almost all being de-pubed.)

At the same time I remain gobsmacked that anyone goes on it, ever, and also that it was ever commissioned. It’s just so..... rude! :o

BanKittenHeels · 18/09/2019 23:42

Yes that was Judith!
When she said was handing out the Victoria Sponge that she usually serves to the vicar and then said something about them eating “the cream from her kitty” she made one poor bloke choke on the cake.

And the bloke she picked had a semi-erect penis when they were both naked.

That episode was something else. I’ve never seen anything like that on television.

Longlongsummer · 18/09/2019 23:46

What did Judith do?!

FairyDust92 · 18/09/2019 23:48

Love this programme! Always makes me giggle.
Me and my partner watch it but sometimes it does make us cringe. Those awkward
naked hugs at the end 🤢

BeachComber1 · 18/09/2019 23:56

I’ll admit I love it Blush

In my defense, I’m intelligent woman with a variety of hobbies and interests, but I find it strangely compelling. It’s just the range of emotions it puts me through. I swing between horror, admiration, mirth, mortification, and repulsion.

I don’t record it or anything, but if it comes on while I’m browsing and home alone so nobody can judge me I have to watch to the end.

The factual bit in the middle always cracks me up. They’ll have a naked person with a piercing on their scrotum and you’ll get diagrams and “scrotal piercings originated in the 1700s when George III declared that all excess metal weapons were to be smelted for genital decorations after the USA gained independence”.

It’s also pretty body-positive and the comments are generally nice. Love the awkward hugs too- obviously told not to let lower halves touch!

It’s my guilty pleasure.

zeezee3 · 18/09/2019 23:56

OH GOD yeah it was Judith! (On the right on this picture.)

She was fucking awful. I cringed watching her. And as I said, she came across as unhinged and totally batshit.

As I said, I wonder what people are trying to prove when they are so 'sexually graphic.' You fuck someone occasionally, and like kinky stuff... WOW. BIG. DEAL! Hmm They act like they are the first to do it FFS!

Naked Attraction - I'm beyond shocked.
TheCatsACunt · 18/09/2019 23:58

The presenter is Sue Perkins’ partner.

ArgumentativeAardvaark · 18/09/2019 23:59

My relative was one of the Extinction Rebellion protesters who stripped naked in Parliament last Spring. After his name was n the papers he was asked by the producers of NA if he’d go on it. He had to explain that he was making a political point about human vulnerability, not just getting his arse out for kicks!

Longlongsummer · 19/09/2019 00:03

Ha ha it’s a bonkers show!

I also was flicking through one day and then wtf?!

Couldn’t work out what was going on.

And then, why are all the women shaved?! And I hope they are okay as they are so young! What if they regret it?!

It was kind of interesting to see how different peoples bodies and ‘bits’ are. Especially women. We are so different!

Really cringe. Really unsexy. But kind of funny!

LemonPrism · 19/09/2019 00:04

One of the latest one had a 60 yr old who made them dance to a gym and said she liked feeling 'toes around her pussy' and an 11 inch cock.

'Read a lot

LemonPrism · 19/09/2019 00:04

Hymn* not gym

MashedSpud · 19/09/2019 00:06

I saw a single episode ages ago and one of the men had a tattoo of an elephants head. His penis was the trunk.