No, really. Tell me the following passage doesn't remind you of sites like Hot or Not:
The attendant asked, "The Naked Truth or the Decorous Truth?"
"The Naked Truth!" said The Jacynth.
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The attendant conducted them each to a booth. "You may disrobe in here. Hang the numbered placard around your neck. You will carry this microphone with you, and to any comment, criticism, praise or disparagement of people you will meet, prefix the number of the person in question and speak privately into the microphone. As you leave you will receive a printed copy of comments made about you."
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At the exit they were handed folded sheets of paper imprinted with the words THE NAKED TRUTH. Inside were collected the comments of those whom they had met within, generally the bluntest and most candid observations imaginable.
(Jack Vance: To Live Forever)
The novel was published in 1956.
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