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...filled with the likes of Change of Heart, Elimidate, The 5th Wheel, Rendez-View, Shipmates and EX-treme Dating; cable offers tlc's A Dating Story and MTV's Dismissed and Taildaters. You'll find catfights, snarky comments, alcohol-fueled make-out sessions and always, but always, the Hot-Tub Scene. (In Southern California, where most of the shows are produced, there are evidently more Jacuzzis than cell phones per capita...
...America going to hell in a hot tub? No, but at the very least, in today's voyeuristic shows, love is a battlefield. Unlike, say, The Dating Game of the '60s, they're less about love connection than love disconnection. More dates go hilariously badly than well--the woman on Blind Date, for instance, who belched her way through roller-skating and drinks with a straitlaced doctor. And if the participants don't humiliate themselves sufficiently, the shows finish the job, with snide commentary from the hosts and Pop-Up Video-style graphics (a lunkish guy at a gym gets...
...herpes-medicine ads during the shows that much more unintentionally poignant.) Couples hook up--mostly, it seems, as a performance for the audience--trash-talk each other and move on. "I don't understand some of the women," says Barberie. "There was one who got in a hot tub with this guy--big fake boobs, takes her top off, has him feel her boobs. Then they interview her afterward and ask if she'd go out with him again? 'Oh, absolutely...
...show that never aired called The Gamut." Kelly Ryan, a waitress in Studio City, Calif., parlayed a Blind Date appearance into stints on dating-game shows SexWars (she won $4,000) and Friends or Lovers. Ryan played the wild girl on her date, coaxing her beau into a hot-tub dip (surprise!) and a shower. The budding nightclub singer said her bikinied escapades helped increase her, er, visibility. "So many customers would tell me they saw me," she says. "They've played my segment close to 80 times...
Shower stalls are particularly suspect. Some doctors believe that mycobacteria from the pipes are becoming aerosolized in water spray. The more enclosed a shower stall, the greater the buildup of germ-infested spray. (A variant of the illness--sometimes called hot-tub lung--occurs when people develop an allergic reaction to the mycobacteria in indoor hot tubs.) Making matters worse, says Dr. Michael Iseman of National Jewish, "we have changed the way we treat our water." Since the 1970s, the temperature of most hot-water heaters has been reduced to 120[degrees] to save energy and prevent scalding--perfect conditions...