Invasive sex question MAFS Australia couple was allegedly asked as contestants make accusations against show

Participants in Married at First Sight Australia have made a series of claims about the show, including alleging that they were asked questions about their sex life 'every morning'.

The UK version of the show is now not airing after a BBC Panorama documentary revealed three women had accused their on-screen husbands of sexual misconduct, and two of them had accused them of rape.

Married at First Sight is gone from Channel 4's library as the women claimed the show didn't do enough to protect them and one of their legal representatives called for the series to be cancelled.

The Australian version of MAFS is an even more dramatic reality show, and The Guardian reports that numerous participants have spoken to them with claims about the way things were done on the series.

It is a very popular show, but on-screen bride Awhina Rutene said it 'obviously needed a better vetting process' after MAFS was criticised for pairing her up with Adrian Araouzou and appearing to be unaware he had previously faced charges of domestic abuse.

Awhina Rutene claimed that each morning she was asked 'why aren't you having sex' (Awhina Rutene/Instagram)

Charges were dismissed against Araouzou as he was found not guilty and he had categorically denied 'any suggestion of physical assault'.

Rutene said: "It’s wild, with hindsight. We are strangers sleeping in a bedroom on our own on the first night, you’ve got no security, you’re by yourselves."

She said she was not subjected to abuse, but said the show's environment was a 'pressure cooker' and felt 'invasive', claiming that physical intimacy was seen as a sign of a healthy relationship and couples felt 'forced'.

Rutene, who appeared on Married at First Sight Australia last year, claimed that during regular interviews she'd be asked why she wasn't intimate with her on-screen husband, saying: "Every morning they’d be like, ‘why aren’t you having sex?’”

Another bride from the same series, Sierah Swepstone, posted on social media to make claims about the 'environment engineered' on the show.

“The environment engineered by MAFS is characterised by control, manipulation, isolation … gaslighting, psychological dependency, triggers and deprivation of autonomy,” she wrote.

“In these environments, a person’s ability to … enforce boundaries or leave is significantly impaired.”

Fellow former MAFS participant Olivia Rutherford said she didn't think the show could guarantee safety (Instagram/Olivia Rutherford)

Someone else who was on the show anonymously alleged that MAFS regularly cast men with 'criminal or domestic violence backgrounds', adding that she was not shocked by the allegations around the UK's version of the show.

She claimed: "Women on my season were abused. There was physical violence, assault, non-consensual touching."

The anonymous woman said participants had 'signed away our rights to a bad edit', suggesting that a Love Island approach where the cameras are always on and nothing is private might work.

However, former participant Olivia Rutherford said she didn't think it was possible to ensure safety in 'any show where strangers are forced to live together, where there’s time off camera'.

Married at First Sight Australia has been investigated 10 times by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (Acma), most recently over the claim that it 'included themes of domestic violence and coercive control', they did not find MAFS in breach of their code.

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