Sex: a Horizon Guide
Wed Sep 11, 9-10pm, BBC2
From Alfred Kinsey’s obsessive trailblazing into the bedroom predilections of America through to the very latest advances in sex-change drugs and fertility technology, it’s been an dizzying few decades. In fact, so astounding has the pace of scientific progression been that it has occasionally run roughshod over apparently unshakeable beliefs and taboos.
Roberts raids the impressive ‘Horizon’ archives and reveals a fascinating shift from research (into sexual habits) to development: the spread of AIDS made it a matter of saving lives, as well as enhancing and creating them. A cut-and-paste job it may be, but it’s a thoughtful and engrossing one.
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