3. Am I Normal?
Examines how researchers measure and record sexual habits to define what counts as "normal" human behavior.
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The Sex Researchers is a TV series that premiered on June 16, 2011. It has 1 season and 1 episode so far and is still airing new episodes. The latest episode, Season 1 Episode 3 "Am I Normal?", aired on June 30, 2011.
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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2011 · 3 episodes · Last episode: 15 years ago
Examines how researchers measure and record sexual habits to define what counts as "normal" human behavior.
Explores pioneering research and conflicting scientific methods aimed at achieving better sexual experiences and finding the right partner.
This episode looks at how sex researchers have tried to understand how the opposite sex works. One sex researcher in Canada believes men and women are turned on in very different ways. Her experiment shows heterosexual men respond to straight sex: no surprise! But women it seems are aroused by images of any kind of sex, from gay men to bonking monkeys; but they don't necessarily know their body is responding. Is sex in the mind or in the loins? And are men and women fundamentally different? Then there's the orgasm. For men it's clearly linked to making babies - but for women? What was its purpose? In the 1950s, gynaecologist Bill Masters teamed up with his secretary Virginia Johnson to take a more rigorous look. Together they recorded 10,000 orgasms in their laboratory, and concluded that, for women, orgasm was simply for pleasure. Their book, perhaps unsurprisingly, was a best seller, and they became sex research superstars
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The most recent episode of The Sex Researchers, Season 1 Episode 3 "Am I Normal?", aired on June 30, 2011.
The Sex Researchers has 1 season with 1 episodes in total.
The Sex Researchers first aired on June 16, 2011.
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