Naked Education show where teens see nude models divides viewers

[We Never Know]

I'm kinda surprised this hasn't been talked about here yet.

"Channel 4's new show Naked Education has divided viewers as it includes teenagers seeing nude models in order to be educated about body image.

The series hosted by Anna Richardson, Yinka Bokinni and Dr Alex George and is a "body-positive educational series that aims to normalise all body types, champion people's differences and break down stereotypes."

For the first week, the presenters sought to debunk some of the most common myths about body hair.

At one point in the show teenagers aged between 14 and 16, were sat down to watch a group of older people strip off to display their different body types.

Each of the people that bared all shared their personal struggles with body image...."

Naked Education show where teens see nude models divides viewers

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"Guests who stripped naked in front of teenage children for a Channel 4 programme about 'body positivity' include a YouTuber who reviews sex toys and a woman who wrote and sang an explicit song about masturbation.

Channel 4's Naked Education broadcast its first episode yesterday evening, leaving many viewers furious after seeing a group of adults take off their clothes in front of children aged 14 to 16."

The sex toy reviewer and nude artist who stripped in front of kids

Channel 4's Naked Education broadcast its first episode yesterday evening, leaving many viewers shocked to see a group of adults take off their clothes in front of children aged 14 to 16.

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[Brickjectivity]

Cancel.

 

[The Hammer]

I'm kinda surprised this hasn't been talked about here yet.

"Channel 4's new show Naked Education has divided viewers as it includes teenagers seeing nude models in order to be educated about body image.

The series hosted by Anna Richardson, Yinka Bokinni and Dr Alex George and is a "body-positive educational series that aims to normalise all body types, champion people's differences and break down stereotypes."

For the first week, the presenters sought to debunk some of the most common myths about body hair.

At one point in the show teenagers aged between 14 and 16, were sat down to watch a group of older people strip off to display their different body types.

Each of the people that bared all shared their personal struggles with body image...."

Naked Education show where teens see nude models divides viewers

www-indy100-com.cdn.ampproject.org

"Guests who stripped naked in front of teenage children for a Channel 4 programme about 'body positivity' include a YouTuber who reviews sex toys and a woman who wrote and sang an explicit song about masturbation.

Channel 4's Naked Education broadcast its first episode yesterday evening, leaving many viewers furious after seeing a group of adults take off their clothes in front of children aged 14 to 16."

The sex toy reviewer and nude artist who stripped in front of kids

Channel 4's Naked Education broadcast its first episode yesterday evening, leaving many viewers shocked to see a group of adults take off their clothes in front of children aged 14 to 16.

www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

It's sex education. That's not necessarily a bad thing for them to see actual naked bodies. We have this weird obsession with thinking nudity is somehow wrong or dirty in any and all contexts.

 

[F1fan]

It's sex education. That's not necessarily a bad thing for them to see actual naked bodies. We have this weird obsession with thinking nudity is somehow wrong or dirty in any and all contexts.

Shame should be cancelled.

 

[Father Heathen]

Nudity is wrong and shameful because...
...a snake ate an apple or something?

 

[Heyo]

It's sex education. That's not necessarily a bad thing for them to see actual naked bodies. We have this weird obsession with thinking nudity is somehow wrong or dirty in any and all contexts.

Could also be arts. Nude portraits are a staple of western art since time immemorial (and not only western).
Or it could be anatomy. Though that is usually not taught to 14 year olds, you have to get rid of the notion that nudity is dirty to study medicine.

 

[The Hammer]

Could also be arts. Nude portraits are a staple of western art since time immemorial (and not only western).
Or it could be anatomy. Though that is usually not taught to 14 year olds, you have to get rid of the notion that nudity is dirty to study medicine.

Yeah I didn't take anatomy and physiology until 10th grade.

 

[Mock Turtle]

I didn't watch it, but have seen some of the similar shows where adults were naked before other adults, and perhaps the somewhat shocked or 'very surprised' expressions from some of the students was more about them not realising that internet porn didn't necessarily represent all humans, given that most of them will have viewed such material. As many will have commented, the UK still has issues with nudity where such is often not the case in many other European countries. Even if being nude in public is not illegal unless it causes offence - and this being determined a bit arbitrarily I suspect.

 

[HonestJoe]

I'm kinda surprised this hasn't been talked about here yet.

I admit I never saw the program (though many of the people complaining didn't either), but I did see some adverts for it and, of course, the subsequent (largely manufactured) outcry.

I think the core complexity is that there are two key aspects to this which I think somewhat conflict.

I think the idea of teenagers seeing naked adults in a non-sexual context in relation to body-positivity, understanding how everyone looks different and how different people deal with that, is generally a good thing. In the age of the internet, the teenagers will almost certainly have seen naked adults in much less well managed and safe contexts after-all.

The contradiction is in that it is a TV program and the general nature and presentation of it, which is clearly using elements of implied titillation and the inevitable controversy as a selling point, ironically contradicting the idea that nudity shouldn't be as significant or taboo in the first place.

And then, of course, you get the tabloid media feigning shock and disgust alongside large photos of young women as naked as they can legally publish (so their readers can get a really good look at what they're meant to be disgusted about) and, a few pages on, probably have an "article" about how hot some young actress looks on the beach.

 

[PureX]

I think it's a good idea on a number of levels.

When I was a freshman in art school we had nude models in various drawing and painting classes. And they were of various body types, male and female, older and younger, heavy, thin, and average. And it was interesting to discover how quickly the titillation factor would wear off and a human body just became a human body. Each unique. Each interesting in it's own way and for it's own reasons. And each a part of the wonderous human 'being' that inhabited it.

It was a lesson I have carried with me ever since. It made me appreciate people for who they are as opposed to their relation to some cultural ideal. An ideal that was fine in itself, but not better than any other.

I think that demystifying our physicality is healthy. And it actually increases our mutual appreciation instead of decreasing it via mental objectification. It helps us to see individual human beings and appreciate their individuality instead of objectifying and comparing us to each other according to some fantasy ideal.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I'm kinda surprised this hasn't been talked about here yet.

"Channel 4's new show Naked Education has divided viewers as it includes teenagers seeing nude models in order to be educated about body image.

The series hosted by Anna Richardson, Yinka Bokinni and Dr Alex George and is a "body-positive educational series that aims to normalise all body types, champion people's differences and break down stereotypes."

For the first week, the presenters sought to debunk some of the most common myths about body hair.

At one point in the show teenagers aged between 14 and 16, were sat down to watch a group of older people strip off to display their different body types.

Each of the people that bared all shared their personal struggles with body image...."

Naked Education show where teens see nude models divides viewers

www-indy100-com.cdn.ampproject.org

"Guests who stripped naked in front of teenage children for a Channel 4 programme about 'body positivity' include a YouTuber who reviews sex toys and a woman who wrote and sang an explicit song about masturbation.

Channel 4's Naked Education broadcast its first episode yesterday evening, leaving many viewers furious after seeing a group of adults take off their clothes in front of children aged 14 to 16."

The sex toy reviewer and nude artist who stripped in front of kids

Channel 4's Naked Education broadcast its first episode yesterday evening, leaving many viewers shocked to see a group of adults take off their clothes in front of children aged 14 to 16.

www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

Might be alright in a nudist colony.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Could also be arts. Nude portraits are a staple of western art since time immemorial (and not only western).
Or it could be anatomy. Though that is usually not taught to 14 year olds, you have to get rid of the notion that nudity is dirty to study medicine.

THE BODYYYYYY!!!!!

 

[Valjean]

Sounds boring. Acting? Drama? Conflict? Character development? Resolution?

 

[Valjean]

THE BODYYYYYY!!!!!

Was that supposed to be a French accent?!

 

[VoidCat]

It's better then where I ended up learning about naked bodies when i was curious what they looked like as a teen..from the internet.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Was that supposed to be a French accent?!

You know, the English and the French..... heh.