Excellent point about originality. When some idea works the networks run it into the ground.

No thank's. Don't you just love reality shows? Where are the original shows and ideas? Survivorman and Mountain Men aren't bad and I learn something I don't already know; like it is easier with clothes... duh. :)

And I you try to explain it they will deny any facts you place before them and call you an oppressor of women..[and I guess racist, homophobe etc.], till they have a bad outcome and they then want someone else to pay.

I doubt that they are. My guess is that they think this is the new natural child birth.

Well it was done this way for thousands of years......but then again humanity accepted an infant mortality rate of well over 50% back in the day. I hope these people are likewise willing to accept this.

Naked and Afraid is on The Discovery Channel.

Please change the channel. :)

I am surprised that they won't even have a doctor on the set. That seem like a logical precaution.

In our culture that’s the reality, but many places including places as civilied as Quebec, women have their children at home with little or no help. This reminds me of another series on a channel like Lifetime twenty years ago about women who had their babies in water.

I'm speechless...

How will the kid feel when he/she grows up and sees that video and realizes that the parents took a totally unnecessary risk that could put the baby's life in danger? My guess is the kid will totally rebel and turn into an Alex P Keaton.

It may lead to another reality show.
"Disaster in the Woods"

As bizarre as this is, it might not be bad for AS: Now Non-Fiction as a demonstration of just how far we have regressed.

I would not call this a "reality" series. In reality people go to the hospital or seek the assistance of a professional. This is just bizarre.

"[The New Left who}proclaim the superiority of feelings over reason, of faith over knowledge, of leisure over production, of spiritual concerns over material comforts, of primitive nature over technology, of astrology over science, of drugs over consciousness." AR- Return To The Primitive

What is important here is the foolish thinking these individuals are doing in the name of some mystical, romantic notion of Nature. Whenever it is nature over man instead of man over nature, it is death over life.