Sex: An Unnatural History

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May 2016
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Love - Sex existed before love, but does it really work better without it? Have we forced ourselves to be monogamous against all our biological urges? Tonight, Julia heads out to investigate the connection between love and sex. Does it really all boil down to a batch of chemicals and some neurotransmitters? (Commissioned b...
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The Future - In the final episode, the last fifty years have been witness to an amazing sexual revolution, but what about the next fifty, hundred, or even thousand years? In the future will we need partners, genitalia, or even bodies? Maybe sex will just take place between two brains in jars. Julia straps on her jetpack to...
April 2016
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Fashion - This provocative and playful six-part series questions the danger of humans becoming 'unnatural' sexual beings. In this episode, Julia Zemiro aims to provide a snapshot of how Australians went from buttoned-up puritans to bearing more flesh than a beach in Rio. (Commissioned by SBS) (Documentary Series) (Part 3 o...
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The Church - Tonight, Julia tackles the complex relationship between the Church and what happens between the sheets. Most Western denominations are moving with the times and becoming less concerned by what people do when the lights go out, but so far the Catholic Church has refused to be persuaded. Does faith still dictate...
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Revolution - The last 50 years have seen a dramatic shift in human sexuality. With sex becoming less about procreation and more about gratification, this provocative and playful six-part series questions the danger of humans becoming 'unnatural' sexual beings. Joining series host Julia Zemiro are philosophers, anthropologi...
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Taboo - This provocative and playful six-part series questions the danger of humans becoming ‘unnatural’ sexual beings. In this episode, desire meets disgust when Julia investigates fetishes, bestiality, adultery, pornography, homosexuality and necrophilia. This eye-opening episode explores the need for boundaries around s...
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