Struggling Netflix Tries to Stop the Bleeding, Rolls out ‘How to Build a Sex Room’ Reality Show – Opinion

It would be an exaggeration to say that Netflix has had a difficult year in 2022. According to Netflix, it reported losing 200,000 subscribers for the first quarter. It was its first loss of subscribers in 10 years. Netflix is also forecasting to lose 2 million subscribers during the second quarter 2022.

It is clear that something is happening, and the company once regarded as the dominant one finds itself in trouble.

As my colleague Jeff Charles reported in May, Netflix caused a stir after announcing it planned to lay off 150 employees and jettison some of its “woke” content. In addition, the company issued a new “culture memo,” in which it took a hardline stance against attempts to silence “artistic expression,” warning employees offended by its content that they might want to seek employment elsewhere.

If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you. Entertainment is a wonderful opportunity, but also a challenge as viewers may have different opinions and tastes.

We offer many TV and movie shows, some of them provocative. We encourage artistic expression by the creators with whom we work. [and] we let viewers decide what’s appropriate for them, versus having Netflix censor specific artists or voices.

One example of “provocative entertainment” was Ricky Gervais’s recent Netflix special, in which the British comedian made jokes about, just for example, “trans women attacking and raping people in public bathrooms.” Needless to say, the radical left was fit to be tied. (No pun intended.)

Anyway, in a “swing in another direction,” Netflix has now rolled out a promo clip of its upcoming “How to Build a Sex Room” home makeover show, set to premiere in July. In the trailer, Melanie Rose, host of the new show, states:

When people hear the words ‘sex rooms,’ they concentrate on the word ‘sex,’ and that connotes ‘dirty,’ ‘disgusting’ — no, sex rooms are not disgusting.

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These can even be dreams. My clients can have them be whatever they desire.

OK, I’m open-minded — but what are we talking about, here?

As reported by People, it appears that we’re “talking about” almost anything.

Throughout the trailer, images of Rose’s elaborate sex room designs are displayed, showing viewers various different styles, from a dungeon with chains and bondage devices, to a bathroom featuring a black freestanding tub surrounded by candles, in front of a wall adorned with sex toys.

A balloon chair was featured in another room, while another had handcuffs on the top. Another contained a pink Shibari-clad manequin.

[Shibari originated from Hojo-jutsu, a method of restraining captives and a form of torture, before morphing again into the erotic bondage Kinbaku (Kinbaku-bi literally translates as tthe beauty of tight binding) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.]

Many walls featured images of female bondage, sex toys and hooks hanging from hooks.

“A sex room can be anything from a sumptuous bedroom to a dungeon under the stairs,” Rose told People. “But when I design them, they can be beautiful.” I suppose, whatever floats your boat. Or, not?

Bottom line:

I’ve always believed people have the right To do to themselves, ForThey may also be referred to as With themselves — as well as to, for, and with other consenting adults — whatever tickles their fancy. It is in complete privacy, wherever it may be. That does not include lewd public displays of sexuality — in parades or elsewhere.

It doesn’t involve drag queens or drag strippers exposing their crotches for young children.