Imagine all of the truly insane things that could be considered evidence of a trend if we just went by the content of a Craigslist posting.

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There's also the challenge of producing a stunt that will actually shock people in a time when "so many hours of television are taken up with people doing insane things on reality shows, " says Terry Press, a former marketing consultant and current co-head of CBS Films.

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So why do people insist on proposing things which are near insane?

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Where in society did we get this insane idea that women were supposed to be the only one doing these things?

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And about three other things, in a blow-your-mind kind of Ferran Adria way, were also insane.

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