NAKED ATTRACTION: A voyeur’s paradise

WHEN tawdry dating show Naked Attraction was launched last year, Channel 4 pompously announced it was an examination of ‘whether or not we can rely on our primal instincts to find a suitable partner’, based on the work of ‘evolutionary psychologists and sexual scientists’. The reality is a degrading version of Blind Date, in which one person eyes up half a dozen candidates, all of whom are stark naked and gradually revealed from the legs up, for an evening out. The programme, now in its second series, also contains the odd sexual fact to give a sense of scientific credibility, but much of each episode is unalloyed voyeurism, featuring hundreds of full-frontal shots of both sexes.

The first series alone attracted 301 Ofcom complaints.

Little is left to the imagination – in one episode, six women who had removed their pubic hair were revealed to the camera.

‘You’re a fan of the cleanshaven look, then?’ remarked host Anna Richardson to a watching man as the camera zoomed in on each woman. In another episode, two male contestants complimented each other on the length of their penises before a female contestant told them: ‘Size doesn’t matter.’