Anyone watching Virgin Island?

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I just can’t help watching this sort of trash tv but episode 3…ugh….

Tom is a heterosexual male. They did some “masculine” wood chopping activities to release their inner male or some such guff.
Cue Tom needing a one to one therapy meeting to discuss his lack of masculinity because he didn’t enjoy the wood chopping, so thinks he’s “somewhere between he/him and they/them”.
At no point during the short therapy session did the coach say “that’s fine Tom, you don’t have to like wood chopping to be manly! There are a million ways to be a man and it’s all fine!”

Well done you for actually watching it,the trailers make me curl up into a ball! It sounds like a.mysogonistic nightmare I.mean woodchopping fgs!

I know, it’s car crash tv but it sucks me in the same way as MAFS 😂

Kathleen Stock wrote a good article about this program

https://unherd.com/2025/05/virgin-islands-humiliation-kink/

I'd watch it but I think I'll be washing my hair. I hope the participants escape unscathed.

That's how they get you though switch it off hopefully it will not get another series!

It was clearly some very vulnerable young people being exploited for tv. Very unpleasant and manipulative.

I couldn't even get through the article it sounds horrific!

Monty Python were ahead of their time.

DS was home from university at the weekend and described watching this at a friend's house last week with horror. He said it made him uncomfortable and he thought the participants seemed quite vulnerable. Both my teens thought the idea was grim.

@BettyFilous they are not wrong , totally grim.