If it's easy, sexless, this is '19 gold pollution'

《Kim Jiwon's Kakao Talk》
'Today's story that is open and harsh'. Reporter Kim Ji-won, TenAsia, harshly criticizes issues in the entertainment and broadcasting world with a tricky gaze.

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The couple's sex life is a private area of only the two of them, so it is difficult to discuss it openly. Therefore, listening to such secret stories and seeking solutions together in couple solution entertainment is a positive function for the couple concerned and for unspecified viewers who struggled without being able to open up their worries. However, the behavior of hanging on to 'sexless' sometimes raises doubts about its sincerity.

In recent solution entertainment, couples who are worried about 'sexless' appear. In the SBS Plus entertainment 'How is your marriage?' Blue's wife confessed, "Since the wedding in 2021, the number of marital relations is less than 10. I don't look pretty, and I don't have the face and body my husband wants, so I came to think that we became a sexless couple." The blue husband said, "Before marriage, I did a lot in one day. I did it when I opened my eyes. After living together for 5 to 6 months, the marital relationship became dull."

MBC's 'Oh Eun-young Report - Marriage Hell' even prepared a 'Sexless Special'. A couple in their 30s who have been married for 8 years but have not had skinship for 4 years, and a couple who became sexless due to different levels of sexual desire, Jeon Min-ki, a broadcaster, and Jeong Seon-young, a weathercaster. Jeong Seon-yeong said, "I lived a splendid life before marriage, but after marriage, as a wife of a sexually inclined husband, I am drying up day by day." Jeon Min-gi explained, "They say I'm asexual. I have fewer desires than people with a lot of desires. Doesn't everyone have different appetites and desires?"

The comedian couple Kang Jae-joon and Lee Eun-hyung, who appeared on Channel A's 'Oh Eun-young's Gold Counseling Center', were judged to be sexless. Kang Jae-joon said, "I think it's become a habit not to do it", and Lee Eun-hyung confessed, "I'm annoying when my brother wants it, and he's having a hard time when I'm on fire."

MBN even introduces a solution entertainment 'Couple on Rest' that puts sexless in earnest. 'Couple on Rest' intends to propose 'the only marital relationship solution in the world' to couples who live sexless for various social and personal reasons. Producer Lee Guk-yong, who directed the production, said, "It was more important for a couple to share 'a sense of the heart' than to find an 'erogenous zone'." Explained. "In fact, sexless is the most secret and painful part of marital problems, and it is also a part where it is not entirely possible to figure out how to solve it. In reality, it is not easy to raise it as a healthy conversation topic or solve it However, all the people who have been with us had the courage to ‘break the taboo’, and they readily agreed to the invitation because they thought big about being able to receive a solution.”

It is encouraging to see a broadcaster come out and try to think of a solution together for the 19-year-old, which is difficult to openly share. However, scenes containing conflicts with stimulating words such as 'It was amazing' and 'It's going dry' take up a large part of the total broadcast, and are stretched and emphasized. Rather, it is necessary to give more strength with an emphasis so that the problem-solving proposal is filled in a short amount only at the end. Viewers only remember the appearance of the married couple experiencing extreme conflict due to sexless marriage, but cannot recall what the solution was.

Therefore, it is not possible to properly know whether the couple is living well after the solution. Some couples appear in solution entertainment while changing. The couples who seemed to resolve the conflict in the previous variety show appear in a new variety show and growl at each other. Even if the production team emphasizes sincerity, viewers feel that the words are meant to draw attention.

The serious concern of sexless is not resolved, and there are more and more couple solution entertainment programs where only the word sexless is repeated. Although it is a 19-karat gold sex life issue that needs to be dealt with more carefully and seriously as it is private, viewers now feel tired from the word 'sexless' buzzing like noise pollution. While chasing only stimulation and topicality, the essence took a back seat. It is inevitable to doubt whether the word sexless is being used as a means of promoting and marketing the program.

Reporter Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia bella@tenasia.co.kr