Airdate: Sex: An Unnatural History
Julia Zemiro hosts this documentary series which looks at the sexual history of Australia. On Friday nights -of course!
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From this Friday night, the SBS “naughty slot” will begin a series which looks at the sexual history of Australia.
Julia Zemiro hosts this series which uses archival material and interviews with social and scientific experts.
Frankly I think even SBS deserves its own place in our sex history. It’s been tit-illating us for years. Sex-Before-Soccer anyone?
From buttoned-up puritans to sexual pioneers, the cheeky and charming Julia Zemiro uncovers the natural and the not so natural changes in Australia’s sexual landscape.
The last 50 years have seen a dramatic shift in human sexuality. The release of the contraceptive pill in 1961 triggered a chain-reaction: a collision of sex and science that resulted in staggering transformation -not just in people’s sex lives, but in their biology and the social order. With sex becoming less about procreation and more about gratification, this provocative and playful six-part series questions the danger of humans becoming ‘unnatural’ sexual beings.
Joining series host Julia Zemiro are philosophers, anthropologists, scientists, nudists, historians, linguists, authors, journalists and ordinary Australians to contribute their thoughts and expert advice on the world of sex.
The series kicks off with The Revolution, an exploration of lifestyle and love. Julia looks back into the origins of human sexual intercourse to discover when, how and why copulation became more than just a need to procreate. She explores whether one small reproductive pill introduced in the 1960s changed sex forever.
It begins 10pm Friday July 29 on SBS ONE.
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I’ll only watch if she’s staring in it.
Linguists? Would that be the cunning ones?
Nelly is onto something there. I checked the same thing because it seemed so familiar but this is a first run, produced in 2011.
Finally SBS airing a new XY doc.
I always thought it was “sex between soccer”… But maybe I’m projecting… Anyway – didn’t the ABC (or maybe it was even SBS?) have something like this before… “the sexual history of Australia” or something (3 part series?)