Sex Box - The Mundo.es

made in a “box”. Or rather in a space of only 12 square meters, designed to promote “the intimacy of couples” . Come in pairs, protected by opaque walls, although the spotlight of television studio. Viewers know what they are doing in there for a simple input light amber (preamble), red (contact), green (consummation).

The program is called ‘Sex Box’, is broadcast from Monday on Channel Four and will mark a milestone in the history of British television. Everything we thought we knew about sex jump from that day through the air with the witness, direct and openly, count how couples made love to a panel of experts inquisitive .

Three very different couples have volunteered to be the first. Lynette and Des are around fifty and inseparable since adolescence. Rachel and Dean are little more than twenty years and have not yet decided to marry. Matt and John are gay and are over a decade as a partner.

The creators of ‘Sex Box’ warning that viewers do not really see anything, but can recreate it posteori. “The evil of the idea lies precisely here: occurs in private sex , but the conversation is honest and direct,” says the program director, David Glover.

presenter Mariella Frostrup will be considered as the “sexiest voice on British television” . At 50 years old, the veteran journalist has admitted that he had his doubts when he made the offer: “At first I was very skeptical about the purpose of the program and on the formula chosen: not really understand the purpose of the ‘box’”.

Talk

spontaneous and mature

“But now I understand what really is the purpose of the program,” says Frostrum. “The objective is to have a spontaneous conversation and mature, something almost unheard of in television, where everything is graph. Deep is to have a frank adult conversation about sex : this so essential in our lives, and so different from what we see in magazines and movies. “

‘Sex Box’ is in fact part of the Campaign for Real Sex, sponsored by Channel 4 and other means in response to the invasion of pornography. The program has warned that there will be much less naked and explicit sexual acts on camera. It will be neither more nor less than a British version and updating of the legendary ‘Let’s talk about sex’ .

sexologist Tracey Cox, author of several books of ‘Séxtasis’ and ‘Hundred hot positions’, make the most blatant and explicit questions. The expert relationships Dan Savage attempt to go beyond the strictly sexual. And the psychoanalyst Phillip Hodson seek investigate the mental factor.

“We live in a society increasingly contradictory,” said the analyst Phillip Hodson, in an article published in ‘The Observer’. “On the one hand we have the incessant bombardment of sexual images. On the other, we remain victims of a cultural legacy inhibition and sexism “.