Couple claims sex on national TV helped them
Jarric Tucker and Taylor Bell went on a TV show to have sex and discuss their intimate lives — and they said it helped them.
The controversial series Sex Box just premiered last week on We TV and aims to have couples on the show discuss their love lives in front of a studio audience and panel of experts. The couple then enters a giant, soundproof cube for time alone for lovemaking.
After the box session, the couple then discusses what went on in the cube. The theory being tested here is that couples are most open and honest with each other right after that intimacy.
“The three judges — I mean therapists — actually gave us a lot of good advice with our relationship,” Tucker said in a telephone interview. “So it was definitely worth going on there.”
“One of the main issues in our relationship was that my confidence level was way down after giving birth to our son. I didn’t feel good about my body. I’m still working on that. And we needed to communicate more,” said Bell.
“Before the TV show, our communication was nonexistent,” she continues. “If he was mad or if I was mad, he would go sleep somewhere else in the house and it never was talked about. But later the old arguments would arise again. So we’ve gotten on the right track with our communication.”
The show has already generated controversy, with the Parents Television Council gathering 38,000 online signatures in a petition against the show, calling it “outrageous, disgraceful.”
“I think We TV went about it the right way,” Bell said, referring to the counter ad run by We TV in response to the petition. “They said, ‘Please view the show first. Then, if you want to sign the petition, we’ll give you the link to it on our website.’
“I feel like the show has opened up a whole new discussion forum about relationships. I don’t see it as being anything wrong. The therapists are trained to analyze people’s problems and help figure out a solution. And viewers can learn a lot when it comes to their own relationships from watching other people putting their vulnerability on the line.”
