A new season of Naked and
Afraid has started on the Discovery Channel.
I am simple enough to enjoy the show.
I love the premise. Two strangers—a
man and a woman—are flown to some remote location in the world where they get
naked, meet in the wild, and then attempt to survive for 21 days without food
stock or water.
They are each allowed one
primitive tool.
The show is really not
about seeing nudity. For one thing,
censors blur-out all of the blush-worthy stuff.
And pretty soon you are more interested in the dynamic established
between the two survivalists anyway. The
team approach to making fire and finding drinking water always fascinates me.
The first episode I
watched last night featured a self-proclaimed lesbian and a heavily-tattooed
artist dude. The pair quickly established
a solid team bond. Normally, the first
few nights spent together in a shelter are a bit delicate. Not so with this pair. After a single night of shivering and
tentative hugging to stay warm, the woman basically climbed right on top of the
man. Later, she urged him to lay atop
her.
This had zero to do with
sex.
This all about survival
and—for someone as artless as me—compelling television. The smart survivalists are the first ones to
get beyond sex.
--Mitchell
Hegman
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