Thread by @MetroOpinion

''Graduation. Doing Bits. And now the Salon - the #LoveIsland stars should ditch the innuendos and talk about sex,' argues @Ciarabelles

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'As Love Island’s Danica Taylor tried to relay the details of what happened with Billy Brown between the sheets, she mentioned that they got a bit carried away.

'When Indiyah Polack probed for more, she asked 'Was it the salon?''

'Then Danica herself admitted she didn’t know the terms to use but eventually explained that they were both ‘clients’ and received reciprocal ‘manicures’ followed by a waggle of her fingers.'

'Watching this exchange felt like applying a thick layer of factor 50 cringe all over my body.

'Seeing three adult women talking about sex in code felt antiquiated and immature.'

'Furthermore, if the contestants on Love Island don’t even understand the absurd euphemisms they’ve created to describe sexual acts, what hope do we have as viewers?'

'Why are Islanders still sugar coating the fact that they’ve been intimate in their couples?

'They should be able to talk about engaging in consensual, sexual acts like adults.'

'As the sun scorches each year, new bombshells explode onto our screens, and everyone takes to Twitter to share the best memes, the Islanders come up with another ambiguous term for any form of intimate or sexual contact. '

' Each year, viewers are left slightly perplexed, guessing at what they could mean or what actually transpired.

'The ‘Salon’ is this year’s version of 2021’s ‘NVQs’ and ‘graduation’ coined by Faye Winter, or 2018’s ‘Do Bits Society’ from Wes Nelson.'

'Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu asked the other girls on the terrace: ‘Anything happened in the beauty salon last night, ladies?’ and Paige Thorne responded with ‘No, mine's not up and running yet. It's still going through planning at the minute.’

'And thus the Salon was born.'

'While I don’t think they should explicitly show the acts themselves – I do think that talking about it openly could prove beneficial for both Islanders and viewers.'

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