Travel Channel's New Show Is An Affront To Patrick Swayze and Common Decency

I was watching a bit of the Ghost Adventures marathon this afternoon-because I like my ghost hunters to be overgrown frat boys who are morally outraged over everything- when I saw an ad for the Travel Channel's new series. I can't think of a clever segway so I'm just going to come out and tell you.......it's about ghost sex. Yep, and not ghosts having sex with each other-which I suppose could just be an imprint of a very passionate moment in time- and not people having sex with their dead lovers or spouses ala Ghost; but live people having sex with ghosts they barely know...............GRRRRRROOOOOOSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!  Watch the promo for yourself and see what you think. Apparently it's going to premiere as a special Valentine's Day double feature with a Ghost Adventures where front man Zach looks for some hot succubus action.

It seems that Travel Channel has finally decided to appeal to the lowest common denominator and has done it in the most disgusting way possible.  Perhaps the reason I'm so outraged is that  being raped by a ghost has always been a fear of mine.(Seriously-where would you go for therapy? All the normal channels for victim healing would most likely be closed to you). Yes, I know it's a ridiculous thing to worry about. Luckily it seemed so ridiculous I was able to put it on my list of things I'm scared of that could never possibly happen along with spontaneously combusting and being abducted by aliens. Now spontaneous combustion is still the least likely-since it seems to only happen to elderly alcoholics- but ghost rape may have just surpassed alien abduction as the most probable of the improbable.

Now maybe I'm just being an old fashioned prude again. After all, from the little bit we can see on the ad, it looks like this is consensual sex with ghosts- and who am I to deny a horny ghost and a freaky chick sexy time? Though as far as relationships go it seems like a dead end? I'm assuming a ghost lover wouldn't have the resources to take you out for Valentine's Day, and as for marriage, and children forget about. Of course it's their life and his..um...afterlife.

Still, 'spirit sex' reminds me way too much of  two squirm inducing movies to make me feel comfortable. The first is Hollow Man, a modern take on H.G.Wells The Invisible Man where a scientist uses his new found powers of invisibility to rape hot chicks from central casting. Take a look:

The movie generated alot of controversy-mostly because some movie critics accused it of being misogynistic. Truthfully this is a little unfair since A)Elizabeth Shue is the hero of the movie, Bacon is the villain (I mean, seriously if it's a movie about a molester and Kevin Bacon's in it-he's always going to be playing the molester), and B) there are lots of super creepy dudes who would use the power of invisibility in this way. (In fact check out Alan Moore's take on the original Invisible Man in the first The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen book-he rapes Pollyanna.....I'm not joking).

The second film, The Entity, is actually based on the true story of  a woman who was repeatedly raped my a ghost and/or an entity from another dimension...allegedly. (Full Disclosure time-one of my favorite acting teachers from drama school-Jackie Brooks, who's probably best known for her role as the commissioner in the Naked Gun films-is the lead paranormal investigator the film which is the only reason I was able to watch it). The Entity is not the world's greatest film but because it's based on a true story it is TER-I-FYING. (The scene where the entity in question plays with Barbara Hershey's boobs will haunt me forever).

I'm very interested to see if Ghostly Lovers will be controversial at all-probably not since it's on the Travel Channel. In fact, at most it will be lucky to supply regular clips to The Soup. Still, I think it's in poor taste,
if Travel Channel wanted to go all sexy on us-couldn't they have just brought back Bridget's Beaches?