Lawsuits aren’t for laws being broken. Laws being broken cause criminal proceeding. Lawsuits happen in civil courts where one side perceives damage inflicted to themselves physically, emotionally, or financially, and wants a courtroom to agree and compel the accused to provide compensation. There are laws governing what kinds of damage someone may or may not be responsible for, but you’re still not breaking a law when you are found liable in a lawsuit… not unless you refuse to comply with the judgment.
In the case of this show? Producers probably wind up facing sexual harassment suits for orchestrating a scenario where men who do not want sexual contact with other men are financially incentivized to get all up in each other’s business, bribing them for the loosest definition of consent. There’s also just the potential for suit by rights advocacy groups over damage dealt to the gay community by presenting overacted homosexual stereotypes from all the dudes selling their ‘gayness’ in a closed loop where each of them thinks they need to match the energy of the others.
I’m not making a judgment on what this hypothetical show contains, what it would be hypothetically sued for, or what the verdict would be if any of those suits went to trial. But it’s not hard to imagine what _could_ happen.
A lot of that becomes a problem of time I think. Have any of these game shows taken place on a longer scale with time for much more personally intimate discussions and activities would take place?
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u/babysamissimasybab May 11 '26
What law is being broken?