It’s an idea only Channel 4 could come up with: take people with little self-esteem, mix with others with buckets of the stuff, and get them all to undress
The sand is all I can think of, sticking to moist places and rasping them dry. But the people involved in Channel 4’s latest venture into putting naked people on screen, this time on a beach, in a programme called Naked Beach, have their minds on higher, dryer things; they are out to improve participants’ minds.
Natasha Devon is a body-image activist and was governmental tsar for children’s mental health until the government sacked her for … having ideas about how to improve children’s mental health. Dr Keon West is an associate professor of psychology. Together, they have designed a four-day experiment to see if they can encourage people with low self-esteem and little body confidence to feel better about themselves by surrounding them with normal-bodied people in their birthday suits, who have absolute buckets of the stuff.
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