What kind of person goes on Naked Attraction? That is what Steven Barrett thought the first time he watched the dating show, in which contestants gradually reveal their naked bodies to potential suitors. Barrett, 50, from Essex, has since appeared on the show twice.
When Naked Attraction premiered in 2016, with an episode that featured 378 shots of genitalia in just 48 minutes, almost 100 people complained to the UK regulator Ofcom. In September, the show became available in the US for the first time, prompting outrage. “The show fully exploits its own participants, somehow convincing them that their exploitation for the purpose of dating is right and good,” said Melissa Henson, the vice-president of the US advocacy group the Parents Television and Media Council.
