The Sex Files - Season 5

First aired: 1/1/2004 14 episodes
← Back to The Sex Files

Episodes

1. First Date

Aired: 1/1/2004

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.

2. Sun, Sand and Surf

Aired: 1/1/2004

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.

3. The Boob Tube

Aired: 9/1/2004

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.

4. Top Ten Sexiest Clothes

Aired: 9/1/2004

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.

5. The Love Glove

Aired: 9/1/2004

About the condom

6. Top Ten Sexy Things

Aired: 9/1/2004

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...

7. Sexercise

Aired: 9/1/2004

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...

8. Top Ten Sexual Fantasies

Aired: 9/1/2004

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.

9. Erotic Origins

Aired: 9/1/2004

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

10. His Sexy Makeover

Aired: 9/1/2004

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.

11. Her Sexy Makeover

Aired: 9/1/2004

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...

12. The Wedding

Aired: 9/1/2004

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.

13. Making of the Sex Files

Aired: 9/1/2004

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?

14. Virginity

Aired: 10/7/2005

All about virginity