MTV just announced the that the upcoming season of its hit reality series Are You the One? will feature a sexually fluid cast.
No, not a sexually fluid cast member. An entire sexually fluid cast. As in, every single person on the show will have absolutely no gender limitations when it comes to who they love.
According to The Hollywood Reporter:
Following Are You the One?‘s signature format, 16 singles will travel to Hawaii in hopes of finding their “perfect match” and splitting the $1 million cash prize. But, for the first time ever on a dating competition show in the U.S., there will be no gender limitations, as each castmember identifies as sexually fluid.
Terrence J. will return as this season’s host. He will be joined by newcomer Dr. Frankie, a “relationship expert” who helps singles deal with the after effects of things like ghosting, benching, and stashing. His job will be to help coach the contestants and hopefully steer them away from falling into these dangerous dating traps.
MTV says this season of Are You the One? will also feature coming out moments, as well as teaching audiences about the nuances of sexual and gender identity and share powerful stories about finding love as a sexually fluid individual.
You can read about each cast member and see their individual photos HERE.
Season eight of Are You the One? premieres on MTV on Wednesday, June 26.
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Donston
This could be interesting and insightful. But it’ll likely just be lewd, preachy and agenda pushing. One of the issues with the recent evolution in the “bi movement” is the desperation to separate “queerness” entirely from “gay” and “straight”. Is it necessary for the entire cast to identify as “fluid”? And does feeling fluid truly mean that you don’t really see yourself as gay, straight or bi? And do all these people truly have multiple gender passions and romantic affections and could honestly see themselves having legit and fulfilling relationships beyond one gender? These are some interesting topics to confront that they probably won’t. And it likely won’t deal with things like internalized homophobia, hereto normal privileges, contending with past trauma on any real level. It seems like just a bunch of people randomly making out with each other and whining about being misunderstood by both straight and gay identifying people, which unfortunately is what most of the “bi movement” from a media and social media standpoint has come to.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I’ve always identified as Bi. I sleep with twinks and men…. :-p
dean089
LOL!
sfhally
Is it how the kids are ‘hip’ these days? Just call them bi-sexuals and be done with it.
wiredpup
Amen
Brian
I suspect it’s less sexually fluid and more so desperate to get on TV that they’ll fck anybody.
wiredpup
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL good one.
lather
BINGO!
We’ve got a BINGO over here.
Donston
There are a decent amount of people who experience some ebb and flow in their orientation over time. And there are of course plenty of people who struggle with self-understanding, self-acceptance, knowing what they truly want and who they really want persistent love and affections from and relationships with. But those type of complications are quickly becoming replaced with the idea of doing whatever and saying whatever for the sake of it as well as doing what you can to detach yourself from “gay”. And this a goofy MTV “dating” show. So, you know there are other motives here. I’m not even certain how “progressive” a show like this can be in the times of pushing no labels and acknowledging the overall spectrum.
enlightenone
I almost spit my coffee out on my laptop. Thank you!
MISTERJETT
isn’t that the same as bisexual?
Donston
“Bi” is no longer elusive, cool and subversive. Fluid, queer, pan, etc. has taken those qualities away from it. “Bisexual” also has sociological, political and sexual pressures and expectations that many people (especially guys) don’t want to deal with. Bi is “too close to ‘gay” for some people and it’s too close to hetero-normalcy and maintaining hetero attachments for other people. We’re also in a world where you have people claiming that everyone is fluid (which is not true), where you have people who embrace gay or straight identities while admitting that they’re not homosexual or heterosexual or claiming that they have experienced some fluidity, and where people are talking more and more about the romantic, sexual, affection, relationship spectrum. Then you have the “no labels” movement. All of this is making “bi” feel more and more archaic, lame and too baggage heavy.
As far as the show goes, I wonder just how much male-male bonding, passions, romantic intrigue is gonna be in this. I’m suspecting not much, unless it’s really scripted. This type of “queer promotion” makes me wonder just how much guy-guy expressions of passions, affections, relationship ambitions and general struggles can really be explored within the the totality of modern “queerness”. It seems guy-guy always comes in last in these contexts. While the media is more committed than ever to seeing “queerness” as having to have an inherent attachment to hetero-normalcy or hetero dynamics (even if in the context of gay identifying guys lusting after and only wanting to be with non gay identifying guys). While I guess we’ve entirely moved on from the nature of experimenting or having some fluidity/not being entirely heterosexual or homosexual but also ultimately knowing the type of gender you want to be with for-real at that point in your life.
just me
i suppose there will be follow up behind the scenes clips on porhub….