Sex around the world – season 2

Yvonne Defour, Marie-Claude Fournier, Frédéric Gieling, Pascal L’Heureux and Éric D. Savage

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 02, 2012

Length: 8 x 52 m.

Direction: Yvonne Defour, Marie-Claude Fournier, Frédéric Gieling, Pascal L’Heureux and Éric D. Savage

Broadcast: TV5 Québec, Canada

Episodes

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Lebanon

Lebanon is now a modern state, rooted in the Arab world, where you can see women wearing a lot of fabric on their heads or very little on their bottoms! Here, if you are a woman, you can lose rapidly your virtue, but easily gain another virginity, as hymenoplasty is quite common here. We could say that Lebanon is from far the more open Islamic country.

Germany

Germany is a country where contrast was born: sexology, huge nudist movements and Benedict XVI. A country where the world's oldest profession is a job. And where saying your cologne smells like ass can be a compliment!

Israel

In Israel, sex, religion and politics sleep in the same bed. Even as some go so far as practicing kosher sex! To learn more about how to live out your sexuality in the shadow of the Wailing Wall, follow our guide…

Australia

Here, they have sex outside, sex is explicitly linked to politics, and there are hundreds of legal brothels, but it's forbidden to make porn films ! In more ways than one, it's an opposite world to ours. Welcome down under, mates!

Brazil

What first struck you in Brazil is the diversity of skin colour of its 192 million inhabitants, from milk white to coffee brown. This blend of races results from the country's immigration history. Most of Africa's slaves ended up here. Carnival has become the greatest party on earth, and if you look around, there are many costumes that have more to do with lace than any other kind of clothing.

Russia

Russia was probably the first country in the world which legalized abortion, in 1920 but hormonal contraception was introduced only in the 1990s. 75% of Russian men are cheating on their wives but their life expectancy is similar to that of Bangladesh, around 63 ! The last census showed that there were 10 million more women than men in Russia and the gap keeps widening.

South Korea

Though only 3% of people claim to practice Confucianism, its values are deeply rooted in society. This seems to contradict the fact that this country has the most online users and the highest porn spending per capita. A visit to Loveland might help us understand Korean mentality...

Senegal

In Senegal, the people are friendly and colourful. We will go beyond the stereotypes to examine, for example, women's relationships with their husbands and with their other wives. We will see clothes that leave very little room for the imagination, and we'll talk about sexuality with everyday people to see how it works in a country that's practically 100% Muslim.

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