Shows such as Milf Manor have pushed the reality TV format to the absolute brink. But what does the return of the Milf tell us about women and sexuality?
Photograph: Image Press Agency/Rex/ShutterstockPhotograph: Image Press Agency/Rex/Shutterstockis the house that Freud built. Eight women aged between 40 and 60 arrived at this beachside villa in Mexico to film a dating show, somehow missing the twist: the lineup of young men they’d be in the villa with would include… their sons.
The contestants are all grimly aware of how disturbing the setup is. As their mothers strut before them, you can see flashes of recognition in the boys’ eyes – these women who were once their home, confronting their sons with a whole new inner life. And the women, too, squinting to obscure the reality of the situation, of the world’s rotation and the rude simplicity of heterosexual desire. They do their very best to smile through the horrors.
I don’t honestly know how they got through it. Even watching the videos feels indecent, even through eyes brought up on theselandscapes, of flesh and water, and the clack of stilettos beside a pool. Even as someone whose ideas of contemporary sex have been formed and sanitised by the reality-show lens. There’s a scene where one woman goes paddleboarding with a boy who wants to suck “the acrylic off” her toes. Lying back on the board, she holds him in the air with her feet on his chest.
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