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Dating is an exciting thing for many people. Sometimes you have never met the person you are going on a date with (like on a blind date ), because mutual friends or acquaintances have arranged the meeting for you.
Or do you know the person, but romantic feelings are only now coming into play that you didn’t have before. A fairly recent development in dating is that of naked dating, which may make you wonder why people actually do this.
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Why should you date naked?
Why would you date naked? This already happens in television programs where people are shown who have a date with each other and do not wear any clothes. Several programs use the concept of naked dating. Of course, the main goal of these programs is to attract a lot of viewers, but there are also other motives behind doing it this way. The television programs that discuss naked dating are the following:
Naked Attraction
The first program saw the light of day on English television under the name ‘Naked Attraction’. In the program, a contestant was allowed to have more and more clothing removed from a number of candidates who were standing in a fitting room. The contestants initially wear clothes, but in each round more and more may be removed.
The person who gets to decide this makes sure that the bodies he or she finds least attractive are the first to be eliminated. The person who is left last is the lucky one. But the person who chose this person is also obliged to take off his or her clothes, so that both participants are naked in the end.
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Undress for Love
A Dutch program that deals with naked dating is ‘Undress for Love’: a name that leaves little to the imagination. The program also shows a number of similarities with Naked Attraction .
The program involves six participants, who stand opposite each other in the studio. For this purpose, cylinders are used in which only their body is visible, but not their face. The program consists of several rounds.
In the first two rounds, the participants only get to see the bodies of the other participants and can judge them themselves. In addition, they get to see photos of the other participants via social media, so they can see what the other likes and what his or her interests are.
Once the first two rounds are over, round three follows. In this round, the participants see each other completely and they start speed dating . After that, they can decide whether and with whom they want to go on a real date.
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Adam seeks Eve
The third program in which naked dating is discussed is ‘Adam zkt Eva’, broadcasted both with ‘regular’ Dutch people and in a version with VIPs. In the program, two singles meet on an island, both completely naked. They get to know each other better and spend the night together on the island. All this to see if there is a match .
The next day, a third (and sometimes even a fourth) participant appears on the scene, to see if a match can be made with them. The following day, it is decided to send home one of the participants with whom there is no match, or with whom it just does n’t click so well , so that a duo remains.
If there are four participants in total, there will eventually be two left, because the last three can decide who they want to continue with. If there are two participants left, they have actually won the competition and see each other with clothes on for the first time.
In the first episodes, a man and a woman were always paired up, but gay couples also make their entrance in the later seasons. In this case, Adam is not looking for his Eva, but for another nice Adam.
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What’s the point of nude dating?
Now you may wonder what is so much fun about seeing each other naked the first time you meet. Of course it has a high entertainment value for the viewer, but according to the makers of the program that is not the main reason to have the participants show up naked.
Because it is of course quite a strange situation if you are both naked during the first meeting, it is assumed that you both feel quite uncomfortable at that moment. Because this applies to both (or more) participants, most of the attention goes to the other’s nakedness and your own. And so there is little else to hide and people show more of themselves (literally and figuratively): at least that is the underlying idea.
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Disadvantages of Nude Dating
If you see this as an advantage, it can indeed be the case that people are so preoccupied with nudity on a first date that they are indeed more open towards each other. The main reason is that they have already overcome their sense of shame. Moreover, the situation applies to both parties and not everyone has the same difficulty with a nude performance. But there are still some disadvantages to mention.
A disadvantage of naked dating could be that the nakedness of the participants distracts from everything else. The tension that people normally feel when they get to know each other with clothes on is taken away. The situation in which you fantasize about what the other person looks like naked is not an issue, because you are already naked and nothing remains hidden.
The other person’s naked body is also distracting, because people keep looking at it. Despite the fact that in two of the three programs they initially cannot see the other person’s face, they still rely on the other person’s appearance. And then the inner self and personality are less important, which is also clearly a disadvantage of this form of dating.
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