Still what the gay characters share with their straight counterparts on Undressed is that they never have to worry about getting a date or getting laid. The most that anybody on Undressed has to worry about is whether he or she will get to have sex with a particular person. Despite what readers of Talk magazine might think, this probably looks wonderful compared to the lives of MTV's heavily teenage viewers. But so do the lives of most young people on youth oriented dramas. The advantage that Undressed has over its competitors on the WB network and elsewhere is that it does not even attempt to be realistic.
Most people have a fair amount of frustrations and mundane details in their own lives.
They don't need to see these things on a TV show especially when, more often than not, television does a shallow and unrealistic job of portraying these elements. Instead of falling into that trap, Undressed focuses on one thing that always seems to excite people - sex. In doing this, the show does not insult the intelligence of viewers by pretending that they are watching it because they have empathy for the characters. Instead it gives them what they want. Given the mantra of downsizing and the prevalence of niche marketing, it is surprising that it took so long to create such an efficient soap opera.