Are you naked? Are you afraid? Would you like to be?

[Bronzeage]

DISCOVERY CHANNEL CALLING ALL SERIOUS SURVIVALISTS FOR ITS HIGHEST RATED SURVIVAL SERIES “NAKED AND AFRAID”
Are you an expert at primitive survival skills? Could you start a fire by friction? Hunt without a rifle? If you have the skills & mental toughness to survive what may be the most harrowing 21 days of your life, now is your chance to prove it. In this extreme cutting-edge survival series, you will be paired with a partner and survive off-the-grid, stripped of bare necessities including your own clothes. You will rely on one another’s skills and mental fortitude to survive.
Call Casting Producer Susan for details!

I have inside information that the Discovery Channel's "Naked and Afraid" series has run out of women. There are plenty of men who think three weeks in the woods with a naked woman is appealing, but the supply of former Girl Scouts has dwindled and dried up. The number of survivalist women has always been small and the softer sex is tiny minority of that community. It's no surprise the Discovery Channel ran through the available supply in such a short time.

Why would someone want to be naked and afraid? That is a very good question and I don't have a good answer. Two naked people risk scratches, abrasions, and various traumas, as they trek through some God forsaken wilderness, and their only goal is to get to the place where they will be given clothes. This is not "Who wants to be a millionaire?" There is no prize. Discovery Channel eliminated to possibility of being accused of encouraging people to hazard their lives for money, by not putting any money in the deal. There is no prize or reward, other than the sense of accomplishment.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

DISCOVERY CHANNEL CALLING ALL SERIOUS SURVIVALISTS FOR ITS HIGHEST RATED SURVIVAL SERIES “NAKED AND AFRAID”
Are you an expert at primitive survival skills? Could you start a fire by friction? Hunt without a rifle? If you have the skills & mental toughness to survive what may be the most harrowing 21 days of your life, now is your chance to prove it. In this extreme cutting-edge survival series, you will be paired with a partner and survive off-the-grid, stripped of bare necessities including your own clothes. You will rely on one another’s skills and mental fortitude to survive.
Call Casting Producer Susan for details!

I have inside information that the Discovery Channel's "Naked and Afraid" series has run out of women. There are plenty of men who think three weeks in the woods with a naked woman is appealing, but the supply of former Girl Scouts has dwindled and dried up. The number of survivalist women has always been small and the softer sex is tiny minority of that community. It's no surprise the Discovery Channel ran through the available supply in such a short time.

Why would someone want to be naked and afraid? That is a very good question and I don't have a good answer. Two naked people risk scratches, abrasions, and various traumas, as they trek through some God forsaken wilderness, and their only goal is to get to the place where they will be given clothes. This is not "Who wants to be a millionaire?" There is no prize. Discovery Channel eliminated to possibility of being accused of encouraging people to hazard their lives for money, by not putting any money in the deal. There is no prize or reward, other than the sense of accomplishment.

Yeah, all you get out of it is bragging rights and the environments they put you in are pretty extreme. To me the worst part of it would be the predator threats--if you can't hack the environment you can always tap out but you don't have time to tap out when the wildlife turns dangerous.

I think the pool of women is even more limited by women not being as braggy as men--the reward for success isn't as valuable for them.

 

[Valjean]

Why "afraid" -- Poison ivy?

 

[Underseer]

Thanks for reminding me why I don't watch the Discovery Channel anymore. Let me know if they ever go back to showing documentaries.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Thanks for reminding me why I don't watch the Discovery Channel anymore. Let me know if they ever go back to showing documentaries.

You mean like "The Science of Interstellar"?

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Why "afraid" -- Poison ivy?

I think it's a reference to Genesis.

 

[Draconis]

Says much for the state of our culture (very pampered, despite complaints) that so very few wish to try this.

Probably been a long time since this was not so, however. I don't think people will be rushing to do without clothes in a future without religion though.

 

[bilby]

Says much for the state of our culture (very pampered, despite complaints) that so very few wish to try this.

Probably been a long time since this was not so, however. I don't think people will be rushing to do without clothes in a future without religion though.

I live without religion, and mostly without clothes.

I work from home, and I live in the sub-tropics. Clothes are pointless - they just add to the air conditioning costs.

I have to wear them if I go out anywhere (stupid police state telling me what to do). But there are probably more days when I don't wear clothes than days when I do; and on those days when I do wear clothes it is typically only for a few hours.

So to the OP, yes, not in the least, and no.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

I don't see the appeal of not wearing clothes unless it's on hot days.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I don't see the appeal of not wearing clothes unless it's on hot days.

The intent is to make them as vulnerable as possible.

 

[Bronzeage]

I don't see the appeal of not wearing clothes unless it's on hot days.

As Gypsy Rose Lee said, "Ya gotta have a gimmick." She was a woman who earned her living by taking off her clothes, so she should know.

The producers of this show knew the idea of people scrounging for their livelihood out in the wilderness had been done to death. They needed something new. They needed something that would make a person want to watch.

Imagine you are at work and someone says, "There's a man and a woman standing by the door." Is this the least bit intriguing? Not much. Now imagine they say, "There's a naked man and a naked woman standing by the door."

 

[Bullmoose Too]

I don't see the appeal of not wearing clothes unless it's on hot days.

The intent is to make them as vulnerable as possible.

I disagree when it comes to the womenfolk. I think that the Discovery Channels will only choose attractive women to boose ratings.

 

[Bronzeage]

The intent is to make them as vulnerable as possible.

I disagree when it comes to the womenfolk. I think that the Discovery Channels will only choose attractive women to boose ratings.

This is true. The show "Ugly & Naked", did not test well with audiences.

 

[Keith&Co.]

I disagree when it comes to the womenfolk. I think that the Discovery Channels will only choose attractive women to boose ratings.

This is true. The show "Ugly & Naked", did not test well with audiences.

On the other hand, no one is upset when someone's booted off the show....

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The intent is to make them as vulnerable as possible.

I disagree when it comes to the womenfolk. I think that the Discovery Channels will only choose attractive women to boose ratings.

Nobody's all that attractive out in the survival challenge and they blur as need be, I don't see that there's much titillation factor. It might work to get someone to watch once but it won't keep a viewer.

 

[bilby]

I disagree when it comes to the womenfolk. I think that the Discovery Channels will only choose attractive women to boose ratings.

Nobody's all that attractive out in the survival challenge and they blur as need be, I don't see that there's much titillation factor. It might work to get someone to watch once but it won't keep a viewer.

Back in the 1980s, we would watch a new TV show if it was rumoured that $_ACTRESS appeared topless or naked, in the hope of catching a glimpse of one or more nubile nipples.

But that was before the Internet. These days, a Google image search for "$_ACTRESS topless" or "$_ACTRESS naked" can achieve the same objective without having to sit through an hour of tedious channel four 'drama'.