‘The View’ hosts debate sex with the lights on or off

Joy Behar insists on a Venmo payment if you want to see her naked.

On Thursday’s episode of The viewthe co-hosts discussed recently busy article from a woman who shares how past body image issues have prevented her from being intimate with the lights on. When she decided to experiment with light-on sex for a month on the advice of her therapist, it changed her “whole perspective”.

Whoopi Goldberg and co. had thoughts on the matter. “She didn’t believe she was hot enough,” Goldberg said, signing off, “So, first of all: stop it. If you don’t believe you’re hot, no one else will. And I guess you should go to the therapist and find out.”

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“This is one time I’m going to say, don’t go against the light,” Sara Haines interjected. “Not for her. I’m a person who’s like, ‘let’s have sex in the abyss,’ which is where there’s no sunlight in the deep depths of the ocean.” Don’t get Haines wrong, “I think I’m warm,” she said — “in the dark.”

Behar, on the other hand, is all about lights on, “but when you want to go to the bathroom, never turn your back,” she said. “You’re going backwards. It’s one thing for the breasts to hang, but the back? Forget it.”

Alyssa Farah Griffin said she was pro lights on, and Goldberg agreed. “If the lights are on, I can see what you bring to the table, too,” countered Goldberg.

Behar then said, “If I’m seen naked, I want a Venmo payment afterwards.” The remark was a sly nod to an earlier discussion about former US Rep Matt Gaetz’s Venmo payments total over $10K to two women who were discovered during a sexual misconduct investigation against the Florida politician.

Sex and dating was also a topic of discussion during an episode last week, where Goldberg advocated a “hit-and-run hookup.” Goldberg, who has no interest in marriage and who famously doesn’t want anyone in his housetold her co-hosts that she was “not interested in a committed relationship.”

“The guys are going to love it,” Haines said.

The view sent weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC. Watch a clip from Thursday’s episode above.