Dating in the Dark

Imagine you are blind. Now wait, it gets better. Imagine you are in your mid to late twenties inserted into the wonderful world of dating and you're blind. Now, imagine ABC tells you "Suprise, you're not blind, but we're going to insert you into a situation where you might as well be, THIS IS DATING IN THE DARK"

Three men and three women stay in a house for a few days and meet each other on a group date to get a sense of how they interact with each other. Then this experience turns into an experiment. Based on chemistry and whatever nonsensical matchy skills that ABC producers beleive might exist, they pair up the most compatible guy and girl. For the next few dates they interact with their matches in the dark. They smell each others clothes for pheromones. Talk in the dark, flirt in the dark, make-out in the dark (ooh fun!).

They're revealed to each other separately and then have to come back and decide whether or not to continue with dating. The experiment is about finding out about a person before being physically attracted to them. I completely enjoyed it.

Imagine meeting someone and finding out about how much you are attracted to them before seeing them or before them seeing you. What a fabulous challenge. There is something to be said for physical attraction. For relationships to really work, the physical needs to be there just as much as the emotional.

What's your take? Agree? Strongly object? Lovin' ABC's take on a dating experiment?