This thread seems to have taken over from
http://www.splosh.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5588 so I'll post on this one too.
Splosh forum membership: 3574
Members using pseudonyms: 3570 plus
Members showing a location: under 800
Genuine couples: very few
Picture the scene: -
'I have with me (insert real names), (insert ages), a (insert profession) and (insert profession), from (insert location), a genuine sploshing couple'.
Blah, blah, blah - on national mainstream daytime TV, with an audience of millions, including potentially family, friends, acquaintances, family of work colleagues who will recognise you from the last drunken works Xmas bash - not to mention the possibility of vindictive ex-partners; coupled with the likelihood of further coverage in the tabloid press, so that work colleagues who won't see the programme can catch an eyeful too, and then look up the programme and replay all the gory details on the internet.
Even if one uses assumed names, etc, somebody out there in audience land is going to say 'I know that face/those boobs/that laugh/that voice - that's (insert real name), and we're back to square one.
It ain't go happen, is it?
No.
Regrettable, but that's life. If I'd won the jackpot on the lottery and didn't have to work again, and had a partner available in a similar situation, I
might be tempted, but I haven't, I don't, and I'm not. I work (when I do) in a very staid profession and could possibly be 'drummed out of the Brownies' for such a thing. In my spare time, I'm involved in interests where enhanced CRB checks are required, and that would almost certainly be prejudiced (unjustifiably) by such an episode - think, for instance, a large part of the population still think that all homosexual men are paedophiles!
No, it's not going to happen - not yet, anyway.
Mike.