A Danish chat show where women silently undress as the male host and a guest critique their bodies has been branded humiliating and sexist by viewers.

A DANISH television program is causing outrage over its use of naked women parading in front of men who judge their bodies.

Blachman, which screens on prime time Danish state television, features a series of silent women who walk in to a darkened studio and slip out of their bathrobes in front of the eponymous host and a guest, British media report.

The men, seated on a couch several metres from the women who are shown in the spotlight, then run their eyes over the nude guests and judge the women on their bodies.

Critics have blasted Blachman, hosted by Thomas Blachman, over its sexist humiliation of women.

But Blachman, a jazz musician who was also a judge on the Danish version of X-factor, and who claims to have created the concept, says he is a “genius”.

The bald presenter said the aim was to “stir discussion about the aesthetics of the female body without allowing the conversation to become pornographic or politically correct”.

“The female body thirsts for words. The words of a man. And they went for it.”

Even before the show, on Denmark’s public service DR2 channel, aired, it stirred vigorous debate on social media and in newspapers.

While some are upset by the silence of the women, others have, found it empowering to see normal women at the centre of the media’s focus rather than, impossible to live up to ideals, Copenhagen Voice reported.

DR producer, Sofia Fromberg, believes the show must go on and does not think that the TV critics should have the final say about what is good for men and women.

She commented: “Here we have a program that reveals what men think about the female body. Quite honestly, what is wrong with that?”

The row comes after Australian newspaper columnist Geoffrey Barker caused uproar when he attacked young female reporters and newsreaders as being all big hair and hot air, all smile without substance.

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