A friend commented that she and her daughter (aged 14) were waiting desperately for the next series of Love Island. I said I'd never allowed my DD (now 22) to watch it at home, it was banned in our house. I've watched a couple of episodes. It seems to me that it's basically televised prostitution. These young people are being paid to shag each other on prime time TV (and don't tell me that's not the desired outcome - of course that's what the producers are hoping for). I'm really not a prude and we have discussions in our home about sex and relationships. I have never judged or defined a person based on how many people they have sex with, we don't use insults based upon that in our house either, I won't tolerate terms like 'slut' or 'slag'. At the same time though, I have had a lot of discussions with both DD and DS about respecting both their own and their partner's boundaries and that rushing into sexual activity when they were very young wasn't necessarily best for their mental or physical health. I think it makes it really difficult to teach them about healthy sexual relationships when TV shows like this glorify sex for material gain. AIBU or am I more of a prude than I like to think?