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To be shocked by Channel 4's new programme?

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DIYTopTits · 06/08/2016 22:02

Sorry if this has already been done (I had a look to see if there were any others but couldn't find any).

So I haven't don't want to seen it but I've heard that Channel 4 has released a new programme called Naked Attraction. A selection of women or men stand in pods completely starkers and they get revealed from the bottom up. There is then a contestant who eliminates one of the candidates based on things they don't like about them.

AIBU to think this is appalling, body shaming people and objectifying people? Do people agree or do I need to lighten up?

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Savagebeauty · 06/08/2016 22:36

It is depressing, cheap tv.

StillCounting123 · 06/08/2016 22:41

I'd love to know how they get people to go on these shows.

For all the tea in China I wouldn't dream of it!

BillSykesDog · 06/08/2016 22:41

I watched it. I found it hilarious. Such an assortment of odd people who desperately wanted to be cool and show they DGAF. But they all did and were quite stroppy about it. And it was all so hilariously awkward and unsexy.

QueenLaBeefah · 06/08/2016 22:43

Yy totally unsexy.

Destinysdaughter · 06/08/2016 22:45

There's already been a couple of threads about this. I agree it is both weirdly shocking and boring at the sane time. It's cold and clinical and as for the naked walk of shame...?

Relationships are about so much more than this. I don't know who came up with this idea or who approved it but I think after one series it'll probably sink without trace...

HelenaDove · 06/08/2016 22:49

Imagine if someone on there got rejected because of a slight apron of skin on their stomach and then it was revealed it was because they had lost loads of weight.

Potentially it could happen.............it wouldnt do much for the persons self esteem especially in light of the effort they will have made.

BillSykesDog · 06/08/2016 22:56

I don't think they really give a shit about the self esteem of the contestants.

herecomesthsun · 06/08/2016 22:57

Thomas More thought people should have the chance to see each other naked before they got married (very avant garde for the sixteenth century).

As an idea, looking each other over like fruit on a greengrocer's stall, that always seemed pretty unromantic to me.

Seeing each other naked before you are even introduced, in front of a studio audience and God knows how many viewers, that takes the idea to the extreme and beyond.

I wonder how these participants feel, one, six, twelve months later?

I wonder also if it has an effect on work - many of your colleagues will have seen your genitals - or clubbing, socialising etc.?

BestZebbie · 06/08/2016 22:58

There is a Norse myth about this....a woman wants to marry one of the gods (she is possibly a giantess they have reluctantly become obliged to do a favour for due to some kind of prior epic fail), all the eligible ones stand naked behind a screen and she has to choose which one to have based on just their bare feet. She picks the handsomest feet hoping they belong to Baldur, but they actually belong to the sea god, because they have been washed clean from being in the sea so much. They get married but it doesn't work because she is a mountain-lover and he needs to be in the sea, so they separate. This is seen as a great victory for Team Norse God.

NeedAnotherGlass · 06/08/2016 23:00

It is fairly awful as a concept, but the people taking part aren't all perfect bodies by any stretch. Mostly shaved but not all. The comments made have been pretty much all been really positive. Even when they are rejecting people, they are still kind in the words they use. I haven't heard any comments that were actually unkind or critical.

singleandfabulous · 06/08/2016 23:01

Ive recorded this after my sister mentioned it. Only seen the first few minutes but [shocked] already and Im no prude. What happens when tbey next go for a job interview and HR's background check brings this up? Also, why all the gratuatous clise-ups of pierced bellends & nipples? Its really just a meat fest I think but Ill have to watch the whole thing before passing judgement. Still, at least you know what youre getting ...

BillSykesDog · 06/08/2016 23:02

We're talking about a programme which makes 'The Word' look restrained and intellectual. I don't think the emotional well being of contestants is very high on their agenda.

Although I do tend to think if you're enough of a narcissist to do something like this you deserve everything that's coming to you.

One of the men who was rejected on the Friday show was actually genuinely scary. He seemed to think that because the girl picking was there and prepared to get naked she owed him sex. It was really unpleasant. Plus, although they didn't say in so many words, it seemed like the guy she finally did pick had slept with her then blanked her. It was pretty seedy. I felt sorry for her, she seemed a bit damaged in the first place.

But it wasn't shocking or entertaining. It was just funny because it was missing the mark of what it was trying to be so badly and just turning into some awkward tea party where everybody is trying to pretend everybody else isn't naked.

ATrumpIsAFartCalledDonald · 06/08/2016 23:02

I don't have an issue with the premise of the show - let them stand their nude if they choose to. And they are being pleasant to each other even when they're criticising small cocks and wonky toes but it's just boring and very cringey - the format/studio looks very dated. Confused

Arfarfanarf · 06/08/2016 23:03

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PickAChew · 06/08/2016 23:06

Notsomuch The Voice as The Cock.

I'll pass

AverageGayLad · 06/08/2016 23:14

Lauder Grin Well I won't be looking to the program for advice

notamummy10 · 06/08/2016 23:18

I think this technique is interesting, I can see the point in it too! I couldn't do it myself but kudos to the people who were willing to participate!

GloriaGaynor · 06/08/2016 23:21

So you pick someone based on their body and they turn out to be a twat, then what?

It's so bizarre that it could have been a concept from 'Unreal'.

notamummy10 · 06/08/2016 23:24

I wish they chose a different presenter though!

TuppencePenny · 06/08/2016 23:27

I think it's good! A wide range of body shapes and ethnicities and I love the presenter. It's just a bit of full if you don't like it don't watch. It's actually not body shaming in the slightest all very positive and shows a diversity in shapes and real people. Better than seeing airbrushed models all the time. For those saying you have to be a size 8 to go on it have you even seen the show?

Queenbean · 06/08/2016 23:30

Anna Richardson is THE WORST

All that faux science is such a load of bollocks "oh you like a shaved fanny? That's great, because STATISTICALLY 51% of men SCIENTIFICALLY agreed. This is because there is evidence cave women bashed a piece of flint against their nether regions to entice then men and removing on hair mimics that. SCIENTIFICALLY"

Well Anna, statistically 90% of people would like you to fuck off

BillSykesDog · 06/08/2016 23:41

It's not just their bodies as a whole Gloria. The one I watched, first he saw their arses and eliminated the worst one, then he saw their vaginas and eliminated his least favourite, then their breasts and so on. So it's not even the body as a whole, but reduces it to the body parts. They get to see the whole body and face of the final two before they pick, but not speak, or not very much anyway. It's like Blind Date in total reverse.

HelenaDove · 07/08/2016 00:00

Totally agree with your posts Bill.

Sallystyle · 07/08/2016 00:39

Imagine if someone on there got rejected because of a slight apron of skin on their stomach and then it was revealed it was because they had lost loads of weight.

I don't imagine these people care that much. I know that if someone rejected me because my stomach is saggy and my boobs are small it would hurt, so I wouldn't be standing naked on a TV programme knowing people would reject me based on my body parts.

LikeDylanInTheMovies · 07/08/2016 00:40

Well don't bloody watch it then! It is pretty clear from the title and advanced publicity what the show features.

The few minutes I saw looked incredibly dull and Anna Richardson irritates me at the best of times, so I switched it off, all without frothing at the mouth, going full Mary Whitehouse or having a fit of the vapours.