HBO's unhinged 90s sex anthropology that made your parents' cable subscription VERY risky.
Season 1 • Episode 34
LatestFrom food-fetish feasts, to nude beauty pageants in the tropics, to virtual sex and more, this Real Sex collection relives the most erotic, unusual and humorous segments from many of HBO's signature adults-only series and specials. The one-hour compilation includes clips culled from Cathouse, Pornucopia: Going Down in the Valley, Real Sex, Sex Bytes, Eros America, G-String Divas and Nerve.com: Downloading Sex.
Real Sex is a documentary television series broadcast on and a production of HBO. As its name implies, Real Sex is a sexually explicit "magazine" which "explores sex '90s style." Real Sex explores human sexuality, from the latest sexual fads to casual sex festivals and home production of pornographic movies. The show typically explores three to four topics each episode. Segments are separated by street interviews with random people, relating to the episode's topics. Episodes of the show investigate RealDolls, "Swingstock," a cunnilingus seminar, a perpetual sex machine for women, and lovemaking in chocolate. The last Real Sex episode aired in 2009. Older episodes as well as "best-of" episodes are frequently re-aired during late nights on HBO. It spawned a spin-off series called Pornucopia.
Production
Gritty handheld aesthetic that screams 'we're NOT Playboy, we're SERIOUS.'
Editing
Jarring cuts from graphic demonstrations to confused Midtown interviews.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real Sex existed in the pre-internet porn gap, when HBO was literally the only place to see uncensored sexuality—making it both progressive and deeply problematic.
Pornucopia, the 2004 spin-off, dropped the faux-anthropology pretense entirely and just interviewed adult film stars about their craft—essentially admitting what Real Sex always was.
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