--- title: 'Dating Naked' on VH1 Is Just the Latest Reality TV Experiment description: The first—and final—recap of the show canonical: https://time.com/2998802/dating-naked-reality-show/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-17T21:32:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:40.551Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Dating Naked' on VH1 Is Just the Latest Reality TV Experiment og:description: The first—and final—recap of the show og:url: https://time.com/2998802/dating-naked-reality-show/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74b431804e5d611e/69869c1cd0b6f27a37305526/dating_naked.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Kelly Keodara and Yarc Lewinson ride around Grand Central Station in New York City on July 16, 2014 in a pedicab to promote a new VH1 series "Dating Naked". og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Dating Naked' on VH1 Is Just the Latest Reality TV Experiment twitter:description: The first—and final—recap of the show twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74b431804e5d611e/69869c1cd0b6f27a37305526/dating_naked.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Dating Naked_ Is Just the Same Old Reality Formula, With Less Clothes > Sponsored content. 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Clary—AFP/Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jul 17, 2014 9:32 PM UTC In the mid-aughts, when all of the obvious reality TV show premises were snatched up — survive in the wild, pick a mate from many potential suitors, be the best model, chef, housewife — channels began to test the boundaries of the genre with shows like _Joe Millionaire_, _For Love or Money_ and _Fear Factor_. The new renaissance in stunt reality shows seems to be nudity: it started with Discovery’s _Naked and Afraid_, followed now by VH1’s _Dating Naked_ and TLC’s _Buying Naked_. Where _Naked and Afraid_ seeks to force contestants to engage with their primal selves in the wild, _Dating Naked_ aims to strip away all the artifice of dating by putting everything out there at once. (_Buying Naked_ doesn’t even bother to try to have noble goals: it’s just about real estate brokers in a nudist community.) In an era where [one-third of married couples](http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/one-third-u-s-marriages-start-online-dating-study-article-1.1362743) meet online and a person can hide behind old, blurry profile pictures, the idea of seeing a potential match’s true self all at once has a certain appeal: once the physical stuff is out of the way, you can _actually_ get to know someone. But _Dating Naked_ doesn’t ask its contestants to strip down, then cover back up, then go on their date. It forces them to do activities — ranging from boogie boarding to body painting to running around in an inflatable ball — naked. These activities definitely have entertainment value: in the first episode one contestant uses his penis as a paint brush. But it’s not a formula to find love. Here’s the premise: two contestants, a guy and a girl, come to an exotic locale and go on three dates with three different people, naked. (One of the dates is with each other.) In between the dates, the contestants and their suitors hang out in the Jungle Villa, where clothes are optional and beds are abundant, encouraging the contestants to just do the _obvious_ already. On the final day, the two contestants decide who they want to see again. (The fact that these people usually live on opposite sides of the country is not addressed as an issue.) But once you (and the contestants) get used to the nudity gimmick, it’s just like any other reality dating show: the inevitable drama occurs. In the first episode Joe, a 23-year-old who looks like an extra on the _Jersey Shore_, must choose between the other contestant — 36-year-old WeeWee, who has “no f\*\*\*ing idea” why she’s single, but who Joe says is the coolest girl he’s met — and an impossibly skinny Israeli girl who says that she “doesn’t think too much” and who Joe describes as the kind of girl you bring home, but not to your mom. The personality vs. looks setup plays out in predictable fashion, and you’ll want to scream as you watch these two women so willing to forgive a completely unlikable guy for kissing both girls in front of each other as he makes his decision. There is no money to be won (like _Survivor_), no fame to be earned (like _Jersey Shore_ or any show where characters appear in multiple episodes), no true love to be found (like theoretically _The Bachelor_ where you get to spend more the 72 hours with someone) and no accomplishment about which to brag (like _Naked and Afraid_). That makes the motivations for competing on this show rather mystifying. The only answer is that there is an endless line of people waiting to make their TV debut — in whatever ridiculous, small way — and as long as those people exist, hundreds of naked versions of reality shows can continue to have single summer seasons, hoping to hit it big with the scandal factor. 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