The dating show, where people are judged on their naked bodies, has become a much-discussed hit after landing on streaming, with detractors game its wake.
I vaguely remember the first time I heard about Naked Attraction, the British reality series in which singletons judge prospective partners in the nude, which premiered on Channel 4 in Such tameness, at least british network television or in the US version of Love Island, is at odds with the unsentimental frankness of Naked Attraction, which has unsurprisingly rattled American viewers upon its arrival to US streaming.
The general reaction online has been somewhere between shock, fascination and confusion.
Dating Naked UK review – the US version blurred out the nudity. We didn’t get so lucky
Either way, it has dating talking. Bad faith criticism aside, the show is indeed a strange mix of uncanny bluntness and discomfiting superficiality, at least to my American eyes. Over its six seasons, the show introduced some variations on the formula — different sexual show, a couple searching for a third.
But the basic premise remains constant: how would you date if you selected solely for physical attractiveness?
Indeed, given the limitations for on-screen nudity for anything but an HBO show and the general dearth of Girls-type sex scenes, it is genuinely shocking to see so many smash cuts of unremarkable genitals and normal-looking show. How did these people return to work after this?! The assessments are often gleefully matter-of-fact, which feels foreign to the strain of midwestern politeness I was steeped in.
It was a relief whenever eliminated contestants put their clothes back on and reappeared as normal people on the street.
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