Reality TV. We admit, we don’t pay a lot of attention to it. We know there’s some hot reality TV we might like on those cable stations that aren’t part of our basic package. Playboy is all over that.

But here in the United States, we are pretty sure that producers are not casting shows by having live sex acts on stage, the way they are in the Republic of South Africa. A new South African reality show, Porn Stars, has enlisted the help of the sex convention, Sexpo, to find the country’s next male and female porn stars.

“People attending the Sexpo this year will get the first glimpse of the 100 finalists chosen by us,” said Porn Stars producer Donovan van Wyngaard. More than a thousand porn star hopefuls registered to audition for the show at the Penthouse store in Woodmead, Johannesburg, three weeks ago—but only 120 were lucky enough to get an audition, according to news reports. The website for Sexpo? It's coming soon ...

We’re thinking … no, the United States mostly isn’t quite that liberated. Yet.