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From the My Hometown Column archives (2014): I stumbled across this old column and discovered that while television has changed, my confusion about reality TV has not. Naked and Blogging! Oh My! Here I sit, naked and typing my blog. Well, not really. But these days, if reality television has taught us anything, apparently everything is better in your birthday suit. Our culture keeps finding new lows just when I think we might make a U-turn out of Scumville. Television producers can’t come up with fresh plots and storylines, so instead they rehash old ideas and sprinkle in a little nakedness. Adam and Eve were the first naked farmers, and even they didn't stick with it for long. Take Buying Naked , a show where people shop for houses without clothes. As a former Realtor, I'm not sure I'd want to drive nude clients around in the same vehicle my young sons have to ride in later. You know...the seats. My husband loves survival shows and watches Naked and Afraid , where they dr...