This from the article is a more eloquent version of the concerns and discomfort I felt when I tried watching it:
Baroness Helena Kennedy KC who, as well as chairing the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority, is a highly experienced criminal lawyer.
She is calling on Channel 4 to bring in external investigators to assess the show's welfare system. She is critical of the format and said she, personally, does not think MAFS UK should be on air at all.
Women often do not immediately report allegations of rape and sexual assault, she said, "because of the sense of shame that you have, that somehow it's your fault".
"It takes a while to come to terms with 'what was done to me wasn't right'."
Prof Helen Wood, a media academic, has carried out a three-year study into reality TV and has spoken to some former MAFS UK cast members as part of it.
She said the highest risk is on shows where people are taken into an "unnatural" environment, where "their contact with the outside world is removed from them."
"The bubble of the show assumes that there will be, kind of intimacy," she added, "and that is a dangerous situation."
From what I remember they matched women with men they'd never met before, staged a mock wedding ceremony and then the camera crew followed them to a bedroom set up for newlyweds to have sex with a very clearly communicated expectation that they should have sex and left them there for the night. Then returned in the morning to see if they'd had sex.
I thought it was horrific.