Female survivalists are given tampons by the production crew if needed during their challenge.
Editor Erin Gavin said spending hours censoring the nudity by placing blurs in strategic spots can be extremely tedious work. For example, he said, "Let's say somebody's building a fish basket, working with their hands in front of their boobs or their junk, there's a frame-by-frame process of cutting out arms and other things from the footage, putting the blur over across the original plate and layering the rest back in. Our job is to make it seamless for viewers so they're less aware of the blurs. We like to think the fake boobs are easier to pixelate because they don't move around as much -; one of our guys, Shaun O'Steen, says he never really appreciated fake breasts until he started at this job. But, realistically, the crotch is easiest. There's only one, and arms rarely get in the way." Though he said some male contestants have asked him to make bigger blurs even though they didn't need it.
Before stripping naked, all contestants sign a non-disclosure agreement.
At night, survivalists are given a radio and a whistle as a signal for help to production crews in case of emergencies.
During an interview with Refinery 29, contestant Stacey Lee Osorio was asked if any of the contestants ever have sex. She said, "We all talk and get very intimate, because talking is all you can do. But everybody loses their libido, because you feel like you're dying, so the last thing you think about is having sex."