A new TV show that features adults posing nude in front of teenagers has sparked a huge backlash in the UK.

Channels 4’s new show Naked Education aims to tackle taboos around body image and address young people’s questions about their own bodies.

The show sparked controversy when adults posed nude in front of 14 to 16-year-olds who could questions about different body types and puberty.

UK media regulator Ofcom has received nearly 1,000 complaints about the show and is now launching an investigation into how the show is made.  

Lunchtime Live spoke to listeners about whether the show is appropriate for young people.  

Writer Amanda Brunker told Lunchtime Live she is “far from a prudish person” and show would not have a problem with her own teenage son watching the show.

Despite that, she thinks Naked Education is a “tad voyeuristic”.  

“I just don't think it was very well thought through by the parents to allow their children to be exposed for their reactions to the nation,” she said.  

She rejected suggested the show could “groom” children to have sex earlier, or that teenagers should not learn more about their bodies – but said it is unfair to pressure teenagers into reacting to adult nudity.

“My kids aren't going to be shocked by seeing a naked body and I think it's quite naive to think that the vast majority of children would," she said.

The author said her main problem with the show is that it is ‘too voyeuristic,’ noting that the “exposing of the kids” is problematic.

"Why not wait?"

Meanwhile, listener Eoin told the show that Naked Education airs on television before the watershed at 8pm, which is inappropriate for viewers.  

He said any teenagers who watch the show will not “turn off [their] phone and watch an educational programme” and will only “snigger” at its content. 

He said the show will also encourage young people to have sex too early.  

“We should be extending when it is that people start exploring their sexualities,” he said. “Why not wait until your late teens or early twenties?” 

“It's not sexualising the kids” 

Lunchtime Listener Stephen told Andrea that he doesn’t have a problem with Naked Education because “this is things that kids are always going to be talking about anyway”. 

He said young people are exposed to a lot of unhealthy body images through social media that can make them believe there is a “perfect body” they should attain. 

Stephen said the show “is not sexualising the kids” but teaching them about realistic body changes.  

"There's nothing wrong with teaching somebody that ‘you're growing hair there, or your body looks like this, or your genitals looks like that’,” Stephen said.  

He also said Channel 4 is known for “putting out what the BBC won’t” and said he believes the producers have done the appropriate “safeguarding”. 

“Do you honestly think any child that is on that show hasn't had explicitly informed consent from the parents for them to be on it?” he asked.

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