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Topics: Sex and Relationships, TV And Film, Entertainment, Virgin Island
Lucy Devine
Topics: Sex and Relationships, TV And Film, Entertainment, Virgin Island
A Virgin Island contestant had a five-word response after his therapist was forced to end their session and insist he 'get dressed'.
ICYMI, the Channel 4 reality show sees 12 people aged between 22 and 30 - who have never had sex before - travel to a luxury retreat where they work with a team of experts on overcoming their barriers around intimacy.
During Monday's (26 May) episode of the show, 28-year-old delivery driver Zac was asked to put his clothes back on by surrogate partner therapist Kat Slade after he made an uncomfortable comment.
Kat is one of Virgin Island's surrogate partner therapists, and is 'dedicated to helping individuals move through physical and emotional barriers to achieve greater intimacy and sexual expression'.
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She is able to have sexual experiences with the participants if the relationship progresses to a point in which both are comfortable in doing so.
But Kat admitted the 'door closed' when Zac made a comment, claiming the therapist might be 'intimidated' by him.
During the exchange, Zac told Kat: “I want to move forward… I want to touch you and be touched by you.”
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But Kat pointed out that Zac was focusing primarily on touch.
Zac then made a comment which seemed to end the session entirely, telling Kat: “I came in here confident and excited, and I don’t know if you’re as used to that in this line of work and I don’t know if you find that intimidating.”
Moments later and Kat told Zac to get dressed, concluding the session.
The next day, Kat and Zac met with a clinical therapist to go over what had happened and what went wrong.
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Zac began: “I left our session feeling very confused, it's not that I felt like I did anything wrong, but I feel like I might have made you uncomfortable, I'm sorry if that's the case.”
Kat reiterated what the problem had been, telling Zac: “We undressed and we were standing across from each other, do you remember exactly what you said?”
Zac responded: “I said I thought you might feel maybe intimidated.”
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Kat admitted that at that point, 'the door was closed'.
But Zac's response included a five-word comment that didn't seem to go down too well.
“I'm sorry my words did that... I was trying to figure out what was going on inside your head,” he said, before adding: “I'm not a mind reader.”
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Kat then replied: “I wasn't expecting you to be a mind reader, I was telling you what was going on and instead of meeting that vulnerability with vulnerability, you met it with blame.”
Zac became visibly emotional from the chat, telling the surrogate partner therapist: “I want to be more vulnerable, I want to share that with you, I want that connection.”
He later added to cameras after leaving the session: “I understand a little bit more how perhaps things could have gone better and how I should shape my expectations as well.
“Maybe just slow it down, go at a better pace, try again next time.”
Virgin Island is currently available to stream on Channel 4.