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I don't know how the show managed to get on the air. It's a UK show. A "contestant" chooses someone to go on a date with based on their looks. There are 6 or 7 people (I've only seen a couple of episodes, so I'm not entirely sure) totally naked behind a door, which reveals each person from the bottom up. So yes, the host and contestant discuss the relative merits of what they're seeing as the door stops midway and then just below the head. The sex of the people behind the doors depends on the preference of the contestant. Usually, half the show is a woman choosing a man and the other half is a man choosing a woman. But there have been women choosing women, men choosing men, and a contestant having people of both sexes to choose from. The idea of choosing a date based on their genitalia seems extraordinarily bizarre to me. On the positive side, I personally think that destigmatizing the human body is a good thing. If more people knew what other regular, normal people look like, there would be fewer body image issues. Well, in my opinion. Or not. I only have an opinion. No facts at all . . . As far as entertainment goes, in my opinion, your life may be sheltered, but you're not missing much.

I think the show already exists: Naked Attraction.

I will concur with the many posts saying Thais have smaller penises than most Westerners. Based on personal observation. And (although this will make me vulnerable to ridicule, I'm sure) I actively try to look at as many penises as possible. Which leads me to a question no one can answer (maybe because I can't figure out who I could ask!): I used to live in Hong Kong. Chinese men, in general, are about as open as can be in public restrooms. You can usually see whatever there is to see. They also don't consider it odd to select the urinal right next to a person even if there are many other options. My hypothesis is that there are so many Chinese in such compact places that they're just used to have no privacy. So why do Thai men practically hug the urinals and desperately try to make sure nothing is visible? First of all, how do they prevent splashing their clothes with urine? And secondly, why so conscious about what's visible? I figure if someone wants to look, let them look. And if nobody wants to look, it doesn't matter what I do. Admittedly, I say this as a person who *would* prefer to look . . . So there it is. Or rather, usually there it *isn't.*

My Thai tutor gave me such a good lesson on Thai culture regarding this exact issue. Thailand is rightfully proud never to have been colonized. But that also meant that Thailand missed out on Western values being forced onto the country. My tutor says that Thais (and other southeast asians) are both traditionally and currently very laissez-faire about everything to do with sex. It's a live-and-let-live attitude. *But* the last time the country eagerly looked to the West for an example was during the Victorian times. So the rich and the powerful adopted Victorian attitudes, which have never been, perhaps I could say, updated. There's a big disconnect, she says, between the rigid intolerance of the elite and the far more progressive attitude of most of the population. Of course, sexual rights are only a small subset of the larger moral picture, and I don't have any insights on the other issues involved. Just thought I'd share the views of my tutor, a well educated Thai whom I respect very much.