The two shows were very different in my opinion.The one with the guy left alone on the desert island himself was very good. I'd saw his previous program on walking the entire length of the Amazon. I think it took him about a year and a half from memory. You could see the naked program was about him pitting his wits against the elements. Purely a survival challenge. With nothing at all to help him, He was truly naked, physically and mentally. The nudity was an integral part of the process. Nothing to protect him from the harsh sun, no pockets to keep anything. An extremely good show following the mental highs and lows as he fashioned his own survival. The only disappointing thing for me was that he resorted to using modern materials washed up on the island to make tools and storage equipment. A very good program that wouldn't have been the same without the integral nudity. It wasn't about nudity per say so the pixilations didn't detract from the show in my opinion.Naked and afraid was a poor cousin to this one, I think. The nudity seemed to be a gimmick to get the mackintosh brigade to the show. Didn't really see the point of the nudity. The contestants were allowed to bring a tool of their choice. So couldhave brought clothes but looking at what they picked I suspect that the production team had a hefty influence on their decisions.If you're billing the show as naked, then naked should mean naked, but I guess that some sections of the American audience don't have the maturity to handle non-sexual nudity. It's a shame really. The psychological impact on the participants was the positive aspect of the show. Showing how people cope under pressure. The nudity detracted from the whole experience. As I said, a gimmick to bolster viewing figures. The only positive was that the contestants themselves became comfortable with being naked in public very quickly.
I watched a few minutes of Naked and Afraid here last night, and was totally disappointed, guy in his speedo's gal totally dressed nothing naked about it and for those of us who go bush and rough it I found it all so boring, wont be watching it again.
The Asian shoot-em up cop movie was better viewing.
They're all about exploiting nudity for the average viewer. There's as much in there relative to nudism as apples to oranges. I find it funny that they're willing to go nude for the sake of the challenge but always seem to fashion "clothing" to cover up. The Professor from Gilligan's Island would be proud. Unless the clothing is for warmth or protection I find it bogus when they go into it knowing it's a nude challenge. Modesty still seems to win out. One of the things I find so great about nudism is we do what is most people's biggest fear so in that manner I guess I am biased against their modesty.
I've only seen two episodes from start to finish. In both episodes ... one of the first things both women did was fashion some cover for themselves. So much for Naked and Afraid of having to survive with very little that the first thing you manage to do is make yourself some cover for breasts and pubic area and butt. It wasn't the lack of nudity that kept me from watching, just not into that particular type of TV program. Didn't watch Survivor either.
This show is really flirting with disaster. They have had people become quite ill but so far haven't lost any one. If the show goes on very much longer in its present form, I believe that a disaster will happen that will either kill the show, or the locations will become less extreme.
I've watched quite a few episodes of Naked and Afraid and it seems you caught two of the rare episodes where the women did that. Most of them stay nude the entire time. However, they did another episode where they showed scenes that didn't make the show and in one of them it was revealed that the producers do ask them to try to cover their crotch area as much as possible with the bags they have. This isn't for modesty but rather less blurring the editors must do before he episode airs.
I've watched a few full episodes; and it seems to me that a rather large percentage of female participants do fashion themselves some coverage at some point. I can recall only a few opting to stay entirely nude the whole three weeks; Kellie comes to mind, in the Tanzania episode. But there certainly were a few others. And I certainly applaud them for staying true to the spirit of the show.
- There was another one (Alison) who opted to make herself a palm-leaf bra - but otherwise staying bottomless at first - because she was leery of sunburn on her chest. That made some sense to me, as coverage was for protective purposes. After all, even nudist women will sometimes do the same.
- But a large number of them resorted to top and bottom coverage, sometimes even creating rather sophisticated garments, merely for the sake of not being nude all the time. Granted, there were times when even they had to be nude to go fishing or engage in some physically demanding activity. Sometimes practicality trumped modesty. But not often for some of them.
- I don't pretend to know what it's like to be a non-nudist female, completely nude 24/7/21 with a stranger anda clothed camera crew. It might be challenging and vulnerable. But as another poster mentioned, the show is not called "Clothing-optional and afraid." It's "NAKED and afraid." The idea should be to create coverage - if really needed -only for protective purposes. Modesty should not even be entering the picture.
We just watched the naked dating show on TV here in Australia.
We found the location used was great, wish we had something like it here locally.
Seeing people wandering around naked over coming, their insecurities re their body's was great.
Hopefully it will influence more people to try the nudist lifestyle.
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