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Why This Bothers Me

1. The motivation behind this is clearly to pump up ratings using salaciousness wrapped in moral superiority.

2. The show makes the sexual abuse of minors titillating, and even though television is certainly NOT art, they inadvertently aestheticize the very serious problem.

3. This show will probably get a huge share of the viewing market, but if someone aired a show on the life long side effects and the long road through treatment for the victims, and a serious discussion of the problem and its solution, it would probably get a zero share.

4. It is one step away from gladiatorial fights to the death in the Roman colosseum in terms of viewing pleasure and morbid fascination.

Just my two cents.