Do you think you could ever be faithful to just one woman?

Do you ever want to have children with your girlfriend?

Have you had sex with more than 100 women?

Have you ever had sexual relations with a married woman?

Is it a struggle to stay faithful to your wife?

Have you ever regretting marrying your husband?

Would you be happy with your physical appearance if you ended up looking like your mother?

Would you respect your husband more if he made more money?

Do you like your mother-in-law?

Have you ever cheated on your spouse?

Have you ever had a man in your house while your husband was away that you didn't want him to know about?

These are just a few of the questions that contestants are asked on Fox's new game show, Moment of Truth.

The premise of the show is simple and straightforward. A contestant is hooked up to a lie detector machine and asked a series of 21 questions, each becoming more personal in nature and each worth a few thousand more. If the contestant answers honestly and the lie detector confirms this, he moves on to the next question. If all 21 answers pass the test, the contestant walks away with $500,000.

The contestant is sitting in a chair with his or her friends, family, and significant others sitting directly across from them. He or she is wired up with the lie detector and for each truth he tells he earns a higher payout.

Now I'm all for telling the truth, I am a truth seeker but not in this fashion. Plus I have to think there are just some things that parents and spouses are better off not knowing.

Basically, the goal of this show is to crush and devastate your loved ones in exchange for a few grand.

As the stakes are raised the questions get more intense and personal. The contestant answers the questions; each one more hideous than the one before and when the lie detector confirms they are telling the truth about something so horrific that it leaves their loved ones in tears, the audience actually claps and cheers.

They are clapping of course because the contestant just told the truth. But it comes off like they are clapping for the horrible thing they just admitted to doing and as if they are applauding the pain they just inflicted on their loved ones.

WTF?

But that's not even the worst of it.....after the crushing blow is delivered and the audience cheers on the appalling answer the host then immediately goes to the loved ones in their shock and despair and puts them on the spot by asking them how the answer makes them feel.

Is it just me or has American television gotten really sick and disturbing?