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The Sex Researchers - Season 1

Sex Researchers - are they perverts or pioneers? This Docu-series is an eye-popping history of the men and women behind modern sex research: the scientists who, for more than 100 years, have been peeking beneath the sheets, trying to uncover our deepest secrets. The boffins themselves range from the courageous to the deeply eccentric, while their methods are visionary, kinky and sometimes bizarre. But their findings have transformed the way we think of sex, and have changed our lives. What soon becomes clear from the series is just how easy putting a man on the moon was by comparison with trying to figure out the mysteries of sex. It seems human sexuality is quite simply stranger than anyone could ever have imagined. And yet sex researchers still try. Looking back, it's easy to see just how naïve many early sex researchers were, but even now, the cutting edge of sex research is fraught with difficulty and no little controversy as the series reveals.

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Sex Researchers - are they perverts or pioneers? This Docu-series is an eye-popping history of the men and women behind modern sex research: the scientists who, for more than 100 years, have been peeking beneath the sheets, trying to uncover our deepest secrets. The boffins themselves range from the courageous to the deeply eccentric, while their methods are visionary, kinky and sometimes bizarre. But their findings have transformed the way we think of sex, and have changed our lives. What soon becomes clear from the series is just how easy putting a man on the moon was by comparison with trying to figure out the mysteries of sex. It seems human sexuality is quite simply stranger than anyone could ever have imagined. And yet sex researchers still try. Looking back, it's easy to see just how naïve many early sex researchers were, but even now, the cutting edge of sex research is fraught with difficulty and no little controversy as the series reveals.

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