A children and families advocacy organisation is up in arms over a new reality show coming to WE TV next month.
The controversial show is called "Sex Box," and the Parental Television Council (PTC) is hoping to get it pulled from the lineup before it airs on February 27.
The series was adopted from a popular British series of the same name, and is produced by Relativity Media. On the show, couples undergo counselling after they have sex inside a box on set.
There are no cameras or microphones inside the box, but a panel of relationship experts sit outside the container while the couple is inside. The idea is that the couples will be more receptive to the experts' advice after they emerge.
PTC President Tim Winter was disturbed by the edgy reality show concept.
"It's a live sex show on television," he told FOX411.
"This is the type of show you would see on Showtime or HBO, but it's a basic cable package. We have seen historically, like a food chain, what starts on a premium network goes to basic cable and then goes to broadcast."
Winter also saw "Sex Box" as a slippery slope.
"By coming into 100 million cable subscribers home they immediately add toxicity to the entire environment," he insisted. "If you have people inside the box having sex the next step is putting a camera in the box."
A petition is posted on the organisation's website, and Winter is confident that they will be successful.
"We have had success in stopping other shows before like Oxygen's 'All My Babies Mamas,'" he said. "Cable networks really feel it when advertisers start to leave. What we want is this network to be tossed off by the cable network."
WE tv did not respond to FOX411's request for comment.
