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The Sex Files is a television program appearing on Discovery Channel Canada and shown on CTVglobemedia around midnight hours, because of content. It talks about several issues of sexuality, from genetics, reproduction, sexual orientation, puberty, etc. It does contain nudity, which is why it is shown in the midnight hours, but the nudity is done from a scientific point-of-view showing exactly what the topic is visually, good for people who want information on sexuality and the biology behind it. In Europe the show was called Sex Sense and featured a male narrator. The number of episodes and their titles were the same but the episodes themselves were slightly different as the more explicit scenes were replaced. It aired on Discovery Channel Europe. Starting with episode 41, it is broadcast in high-definition.

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Episodes

Season 1

13 episodes

S1 E1 · The Erection

All About the Male Erection

S1 E2 · Breasts

All about the breasts

S1 E3 · Orgasm

All about the orgasm

S1 E4 · The Birds and the Bees

All about the ""birds and the bees"".

S1 E5 · Aphrodisiacs

All about aphrodisiacs.

S1 E6 · Fantasy

All about people's fantasies.

S1 E7 · The Affair

All about affairs, adultery, etc.

S1 E8 · Fetish

All about human fetishes

S1 E9 · Gender

All about gender and the differences between them.

S1 E10 · Hair

All about hair, the qualities, the attractiveness or non-attractiveness of hair, pubic hair, etc.

S1 E11 · What is Sexy?

Focuses on what people think is sexy, and what is considered 'sexy'.

S1 E12 · Girl Power

Young girls are becoming women earlier than ever, on average beginning puberty at age nine or ten. Do media images of stick-thin models encourage girls to hate female curves? And how do these girls deal with their newfound sexuality?

S1 E13 · Birth Control

Of all mammals on Earth, humans reproduce the slowest. We take the longest of any creature to reach sexual maturity, we have the longest times in between births, and we have more copulations per conception than any other mammal. So it’s odd that human fertility is a major threat to the future of the Earth. This episode focuses on birth control, the types, the effects, side-effects, etc.

Season 2

14 episodes

S2 E1 · Sex Drive

The study of the human sex drive in both the woman and the man, and the difference in sex drive between different people.

S2 E2 · The Act

Studies the general act of sex.

S2 E3 · The Vagina

Studies the woman's vagina. As well studies: The condom as we know it is a popular method of preventing disease and unwanted pregnancy. Now there's a women's version as well. Also studies the woman's orgasm.

S2 E4 · Sexual Signals

Includes info on Digital Dating, ""52 Ways to Lure a Lover"", and ""flirting 101""

S2 E5 · Sexual Senses

Loving Hands: The human sense of touch. A Nose for Sex: The search for the perfect sexual smell. Taste: Sexual tastes.

S2 E6 · Sex for One

Focuses mainly on masturbation, the myths, the dangers, and the common factors involved with male and female masturbation.

S2 E7 · Puberty

Focuses on the general aspects and problems of puberty among children and teens and the lowering puberty age.

S2 E8 · Homosexuality

Focuses on the people who are gay, choosing your sexuality, homophobia, and what it means to be gay.

S2 E9 · The Rear End

Focuses on anal sex

S2 E10 · Sexual Cycle

Focuses on sexual cycles, and menustration.

S2 E11 · Love Juices

Focuses on sperm, ejaculation, and the formation/activity of male sperm cells.

S2 E12 · Circumcision

Focuses on the controversial activity of circumcision.

S2 E13 · Intersexed People

Focuses on intersexed people, and hermaphrodites.

S2 E14 · The Testicles

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Season 3

13 episodes

S3 E1 · Testicles

The Testicles

S3 E2 · Celibacy

All about celibacy

S3 E3 · Addiction

Talks about the addiction to pornography.

S3 E4 · Better Sex

Tips for 'better sex'.

S3 E5 · Sexual Reconstruction

Episode summary coming soon.

S3 E6 · Menopause

Menopause

S3 E7 · Future Sex

Talks about what sex, and sexual relationships will be like further down in the future.

S3 E8 · Sex and Culture

Sex and sexual roles in cultures around the world. (How aspects of sex, homosexuality are viewed in different cultures.)

S3 E9 · Sex and Disabilities

Focuses on sex and disablilities.

S3 E10 · Sex Versus Love

Sex and Love: The long and short of it Are men wired for one-night stands? Is a woman genetically set to pin a man down? That might be part of the evolutionary picture, but psychologists suggest each sex has both a long and short-term strategy.

S3 E11 · Healing Sex

Healing Sex

S3 E12 · Pregnancy

Pregnancy

S3 E13 · Sexpertise

Talks about 'sexperts'.

Season 4

13 episodes

S4 E1 · Sex Toys

Focuses on different types and the usage of sex toys.

S4 E2 · Kinky Sex

All about kinky sex.

S4 E3 · Rated X

All about pornography, strip clubs, who uses them, how and the dangers.

S4 E4 · Beyond Monogomy

Beyond Monogomy

S4 E5 · Pleasure and Pain

Welcome to the world of whips, handcuffs, nipple rings, bootlicking, spanking, and genital torture. This is sadomasochism gone mainstream. And the more popular it becomes, the further underground the hardcore S&M proponents have to go. Why do people pursue this ""hobby""? Who pays 200 dollars an hour to be strapped to a ""wheel of torture"" in the dungeon of a popular Madame? Despite all the sexual overtones, S&M participants are not seeking sex. What they seek is the high from pain and humiliation. Find out why on this episode of The Sex Files.

S4 E6 · The Kiss

All about the kiss.

S4 E7 · The Strip

All about strip clubs and strippers.

S4 E8 · The Bi Way

All about bisexuals, and the confusion behind bisexuality.

S4 E9 · Baring it All

Baring It All

S4 E10 · No Sex Please

All about people who prefer to NOT have sex.

S4 E11 · Dirty Jokes

All about dirty jokes.

S4 E12 · Makin' it Work

Everyone wants good sex. But for people suffering from sexual dysfunction, it's beyond their reach. One third of men and more than forty percent of women suffer from sexual dysfunction, but what is it? What causes it? And how can science help people like Jeannie Allen, once outgoing and fun loving, now a self-imposed recluse. Jeannie suffers from a disorder that makes her feel like she's on the verge of an orgasm all day long. We'll also meet Donald Blair. He's in his early 20's and an unlikely candidate for erectile dysfunction. Our camera captures Donald as he goes through a treatment session with sex therapist Marta Helliesen. Marta's approach is different - no drugs involved. Perhaps Donald's problem is not physiological at all. Perhaps stress and anxiety are the culprits. But since many many men don't seek treatment for their sexual ailments, many might never know how simple a cure could be.

S4 E13 · More Kinky Sex

Even more on kinky sex.

Season 5

14 episodes

S5 E1 · First Date

One thing everyone can agree on is that first dates are nerve-wracking. And no wonder! From the moment we step into the shower to get ready, we are embarking on a complex mating ritual. It becomes even more complex, and downright scary when it comes to blind dates. In this episode, we follow a man and woman out on blind dates set up by us. They receive no advance coaching and no tips are offered. We then track every step of their dates from picking the right tie, to the goodnight peck on the cheek. Then our ""Date Doctor"", Therapist Rebecca Rosenblat, sits down separately with the two dates and reviews all their hits and misses, offering specific advice before sending them out on a date together. This time when our cameras follow them out for a night on the town they can put their new knowledge into practice. Have they learned anything from their mistakes, or are they too set in their dating ways? You might be surprised.

S5 E2 · Sun, Sand and Surf

Sun, sand, surf - and sex. Whether it's students on Spring Break or married couples stealing away for a weekend, everyone knows that getting away from it all is a great time to get closer. But what is it about travel that drives human libido into another time zone? And what makes some travelers take risks they never would at home - like paying for sex? Social science researchers Ed Herold, Eleanor Maticka Tyndale, Jaqueline Sanchez-Taylor and neurobiologist James Pfaus explain why and how humans change the rules of sexual behavior on vacation. But we also hear from vacationers themselves. We head south to see travelers in action: from 20-somethings gone wild, to married couples gone more wild, to Jamaican men who call themselves Beach Boys and make their living selling sex. This is one trip you don't want to miss.

S5 E3 · The Boob Tube

The production of hot content for television, radio, film and the internet is lucrative business - even the 'News' goes naked these days. Lily Kwan is a serious journalist, and her newscasts are most certainly revealing. Lucas Tyler isn't about to shy away from tough subjects, he gets down to the bare facts. Both are part of a news production group, which sends their hard news around the globe, by experienced hosts dressed down with nothing on. But they aren't in the porn business they say, they are in the news business. Media expert Jean Kilbourne has a lot to say about that. Looking at subliminal and not so subliminal messages has been her life's work. But naked news isn't the only thing that has got Kilbourne steamed, lots of internet entrepreneurs want a piece of that action. Meet Elsa Bangz - internet porn star and classical music student? She has no issues baring her side of things and how she does what she can to sauce things up on the web, without regrets. You feel it, you see it, and then you want it, the way they have it. But Kilbourne says you can't ever get it like that.

S5 E4 · Top Ten Sexiest Clothes

What makes a piece of clothing a sex object in its own right? We'll run down the list of the hottest, from the obvious to the sexy stiletto shoe to the understated sexiness of the man's suit or a great pair of jeans. Along with beautiful models showing off our top ten, we'll hear from Valerie Steele, director of New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, Anne Hollander, author of Sex and Suits and get the lowdown on fashion's origins in sex from Charles Panati.

S5 E5 · The Love Glove

About the condom

S5 E6 · Top Ten Sexy Things

Sure, what we find sexy is subjective, but what is it about certain things - champagne, silky sheets, bananas and fast cars, for example - that get our collective motors running? Click on the title above to read our web feature on the lure of the stiletto...

S5 E7 · Sexercise

Hearts pounding, muscles throbbing, heavy breathing. On your own, with a partner, maybe 12, on ice, in a boat. Sounds like sex - well not quite. It's sports. And people do it in almost every park, arena, field and gym at every hour of the day. Laura Robinson knows these feelings well. Click on the title for a look at buffing up for the big event...

S5 E8 · Top Ten Sexual Fantasies

We're going to take a trip back in time way back in time. Think we're a sex-crazed sin-filled society today? We'll show you eye popping, erotic sex that was written about, described and displayed two thousand years before the invention of the Internet. We'll examine the orgies of ancient Rome, the ubiquitous bisexuality in ancient Greece, the sexual innuendo on the tombs of the Egyptians and the birthplace of the Kama Sutra in India. To get a handle on our current sexual obsessions, it wouldn't hurt to ask our ancestors for some help.

S5 E9 · Erotic Origins

Do ground rhinoceros horns make you randy? If it's possible, modern day neurology can help explain such wild desires…to an extent.

S5 E10 · His Sexy Makeover

Whether it's learning to locate the g-spot, getting a strip-tease lesson, or a sexy bedroom, our makeover guinea pigs will be transformed into lean mean sex machines. Sexpert Doctor Ava Cadell takes a 42-year-old former Biker under her wing and the soon-to-be bridegroom learns all the secrets to pleasure in the bedroom. This sexual makeover starts with G-spotting and ends with a sexual breathing class unlike anything you've ever seen before.

S5 E11 · Her Sexy Makeover

Check out out online companion to this episode, where author and Sex Therapist Yvonne Fulbright offers up steamy sex tips for Plain Janes looking to unleash the sultry seductress inside...

S5 E12 · The Wedding

This episode takes a fascinating look at current day wedding customs - and uncovers how many traditions are based on sex! We'll also explore whether or not humans truly are meant to be happily married and more importantly, monogamous, for a lifetime.

S5 E13 · Making of the Sex Files

As the Sex Files wagon waves goodbye for the last time, we take a somewhat lighthearted look at what goes into the making of this show. We'll talk to, well, ourselves, about the ups and downs of making The Sex Files. Infamous stories, the ""workshops"" we've shot, the secrets we've learned etc. Viewers get a never before seen look behind the scenes to glimpse at what really goes into those nude shoots. What's the best and worst part about working on a show like this and why will none of us ever forget it?

S5 E14 · Virginity

All about virginity

Season 6

13 episodes

S6 E1 · Virginity

About marriage makeovers

S6 E2 · Marriage Makeover

Coming Soon

S6 E3 · The Brothel

All about the breasts

S6 E4 · Breasts

What is beautiful? While there is no simple answer, many scientists are piecing together the puzzle that makes up a popular definition of beauty. There are some common threads: symmetry, waist-to-hip ratio, and masculine and feminine traits that the majority is attracted to. Those attractions are all linked to sex and reproduction, but are there really universal standards of beauty? Or is beauty as varied as the cultures of the world? This episode will also look at the growing trend, or some would say addiction, to beauty in North America. The desire to drastically change one's physical appearance through plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures has sparked a boom that shows no signs of stopping. We'll also reveal the life benefits to being beautiful.

S6 E5 · Sex and Beauty

Girls on Top

S6 E6 · Girls on Top

Sex and Aging

S6 E7 · Sex and Aging

The top ten myths concerning sexuality and your sex life.

S6 E8 · Top Ten Myths

All about the touch

S6 E9 · Touch

All about sex and rock n' roll

S6 E10 · Sex and Rock n' Roll

Coming Soon

S6 E11 · Satisfaction

Top Ten Archetypes

S6 E12 · Top Ten Archetypes

Sextracurricular Activities

S6 E13 · Sextracurricular Activities

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