Sex around the world – season 3

Yvonne Defour and Pascal L’Heureux

Summary

Did you know that Australians have more outdoor sex than any other country? Or Brazilians are obsessed with bum shaking? From sexual fantasy to polygamy, this documentary series reveals how the one thing that everyone has in common means something different in every country around the world.

Sex Around The World takes us to fantastic, intimate and often bizarre places, both geographically and sexually. Our host, journalist Philippe Desrosier is on a mission to debunk stereotypes, and learn about cultural ideals and sexual orientations. He excavates the history of these places to better understand the origin and evolution of sexual customs.

What is socially acceptable in one place may be immoral, and sometimes even illegal in others. Taboos, turn-ons and tantric sex ~ this docu-series reveals all. But the real focus is people, not voyeurism. Unless of course, people enjoy that in your part of the world!

Technical sheet

Premiere: January 07, 2013

Length: 8 x 52 m.

Direction: Yvonne Defour and Pascal L’Heureux

Broadcast: TV5 Québec, Canada

Episodes

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Mexico

Mexico may be a haven for macho men, but to understand the sexual mores of Mexicans, we must compare Mexico with the rest of the country. A quarter of the population lives here. Abortion is allowed, women have subway cars and bus lines dedicated to them. Elsewhere, in some parts of the country, men are considered in some subcultures to be more macho if they can have sex with men and with women.

Vietnam

Few countries have experienced as much upheaval as Vietnam for a hundred years. Let's enter the great waltz-hesitation of the Vietnamese and search with them for the place of sex in their lives, somewhere between tradition and modernity.

South Africa

In South Africa, desire has been expressed in a multicolored way for thousands of years. However, not everything is rosy in the land of the rainbow nation, where very contemporary issues seem to stimulate the imagination far beyond the conventional.

Turkey

A non-Arab Muslim country, Turkey is unique in the world. Polygamy has been illegal since 1924 but still widely practiced. One in three women marry the man they want, but another third must marry with the consent of their family. This is the country whose inhabitants have the most sexual partners in the world!

Indonesia

In a country where you can bask in a vaginal spa run by a funny gynecologist, you could believe that EVERYTHING is possible. But nothing is simple when it comes to sex in Indonesia, where religious fundamentalism contrasts with the voluptuousness of landscapes.

Greece

Apollo, Aphrodite, Eros, Sappho, Priapus: Greece is a real temple of sex fame. In the country of the alpha male and the island of Lesbos, we seek to know how much the current crisis undermines the mythical libido of the Greeks.

Poland

The country stands out for its religious orthodoxy, its rearguard ideas and the most conservative and homophobic politicians in the world. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, abortion has become a criminal offense, sex education at school age has been replaced by religious education and the purchase of contraceptive subsidies has been abolished.

Italy

Italy has a beautiful tradition in sexual matters: until 1968, adultery was an exclusively female crime, it was in Florence that the chastity belt was born, the Supreme Court approved the divorce of a man because his wife simply dreamed of cheating on him and she also confirmed that a woman had the right to lie to the police to protect her honor.

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