How Sex Changed the World

While flipping around my cable channel guide, I noticed this series airing on a station called, ahem, VICE (I kid you not). Out of salacious curiosity I briefly checked out a couple of episodes. Has a lot of talking head experts (sexperts, I guess) giving cursory historical info about how sex existed during certain historical periods or locales, all the while inter-cutting film clips from old movies (hollywood, foreign, and exploitation), artwork and photographs, and a lot of contemporary photos and film-clips totally anachronistic to the subject.

Like most sex itself, watching an episode of this was interesting for five minutes...Very Interesting for about ten minutes...and then EXTREMELY INTERESTING until about twenty minutes... And then it was just wearisome and blah.

If the film clips utilized had been provided titles instead of remaining anonymous, I might have tuned in for more episodes just to note a few that looked like they might have been a hoot to track down and watch, but no such luck.

3/10.

I stumbled across this, and was interested by the premise. Unfortunately, it makes huge sweeping statements- most of which claimed as fact are in actuality a point of view to serve the program with maximum sensationalism, at the expense of perspective and accuracy. It is presented with quick editing and flash presentation to appeal to the greatest demography wholly on the grounds that sex, as is the subject, sells. Fine, just research better, edit better and narrate accurately so that half truths and misconceptions aren't passed off as fact in order to sell the show. the people off the street weighing in on inane questions such as what invention would be of greatest import, or what is the most important contribution to sex is simply boring and really brings the show down even further.

If there were more substance with greater perspective of the events, people and ideas presented this could be a really interesting program!

I really hope this show can develop, as I think it has an interesting foundation. It could be quite good, but at the moment it is like watching a high school film project.

fingers crossed.

a good show and revealing very sex mystery from ancient history i never imagined and of course a must watch show with correct timing 12-1 am on HISTORY Tv18 and today's episode i got to know that sperm is discovered by Van Leeuwenhoek who's in not a scientist and not good at study but he is a curious man to see everything by his telescope and one day he just decided to watch his own sperm but the interesting part what he made a story to cover up for that he just didn't directly watched the sperm cause in ancient days people used to follow Jesus and this type thing is not allowed to do so he just made up a story that when he was intimating with his wife there is some seman remain out side of vagina and he collected it and see it with telescope.

This is more like a preview trailer than a show. Flashy editing and a sassy announcer do not for a substantive show make. There are some interesting facts but it's mostly edited like a preview with some random facts thrown in. I couldn't get through 2 episodes.