Sociology professor Mark Fishman of Brooklyn College agrees, adding that "[I]t's always been in good taste not to look at these things ? but we seem to be in a new age of making public what [we used to think] shouldn't be seen." The feeling of "we shouldn't be watching" attracts the millions of viewers in today's society to watch shows like Survivor, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and Temptation Island...
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By sharing taboo situations and appealing to the voyeur in audience members, reality TV is a reliable and generous provider of "guilty pleasure," leaving audiences hooked. Modern reality TV shows continue to build upon the Real World and Temptation Island formulas by adding in sadism. Audiences are finding entertainment in areas that thirty years ago were considered obscene...
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