It seems that this type of social experiment has a lot of potential, both as a profitable business and as a study of sociology... lots people love "reality TV", there are plenty of horny dudes willing to pay and apparently enough poor/vain/abnormally self-assured people willing to live in front of the world to keep it going.
Watching this, I can't help but think about the Big Brother, Survivor, etc. The interesting thing here, at least until the girls' apartment, is that it is real life with all it's normal moments. Unlike those shows, little is known about these people and they aren't (weren't) here to compete for a winner, roommates weren't picked for dramatic results. I know there is a lot of debate as to whether these people we watch care/don't care what we, the weirdos sitting at our computers think and whether they are rewarded for provoking us by RLC. A case can be made either way I suppose, though Leora's and Paul's new apartment plants seeds of conspiracy. RLC is smart enough to adapt the format as time goes on. For example, the female apartment; it is likely indeed a new take with transient inhabitants- time will tell there if Nora is long term. That apartment changed the game a lot as I see it. They can go so many ways with this. It is an evolving concept I think. This forum has endless banter and theories and provides endless feedback to RLC. Surely this is not the last of this voyeur living that we'll see.
That being said, it also has potential to exploit desperate people and folks in more developing parts of the world, which kind of freaks me out. Lets be honest, lots of people are really just hear to see some T&A and would pay to watch whether the people are middle class, Russians, in Spain, or some poor ass people being put up to push the limits of what they would normally consider moral to have something more. If by some chance, this did start to get big, well who knows?
Imagine what it's like at RLC HQ. Super interesting.