“Naked Education” is a new show on Channel 4 here in the UK that aims to tackle the fact that people, and especially teenagers, no longer seem to know what real bodies look like. It looks at all sorts of body positivity issues and does it with nothing but pure fact as any educational show should. However it has caused a stir amongst the prudes as it involves full frontal, uncensored nudity, and features a panel of 14 to 16 year olds talking to a doctor in front a line-up of naked adults.
Our friends Mike and Fiona both featured in the line-ups; Mike in episode 2 and Fiona in episode 3. They have been called some horrific things online as a result, with some of the potentially defamatory vitriol verging on hate crime. We, too, have experienced such reactions both from our viral Christmas article which mentioned our teenage daughter as well as for this channel, simply because it involves video games.
So we caught up with them in a quite corner at Brocken Hurst in Kent, home of the Naturist Foundation, over the Easter weekend to discuss the show and its subsequent reaction.
“Naked Education” is broadcast on Channel 4 at 8pm on Tuesdays, or you can stream the whole series on All4.
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/naked-education
