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A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex is an eight-episode Channel 5 documentary series presented by Dr Catherine Hood, covering the full breadth of human sexuality with clinical seriousness. Each episode paired a sex position with an STI and tackled topics from erectile dysfunction and sex reassignment surgery to tantric sex and swinging. If this series appealed to you, you value work that approaches sexuality as a legitimate subject for honest, structured inquiry rather than sensationalism.
About A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex
A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex is a documentary TV series about sex, which ran in eight episodes on Channel 5 and was presented by Dr. Catherine Hood. The 45-minute-long episodes were broadcast on Monday nights. The series started on 30 October 2006, with the final programme broadcast on 18 December 2006.
From the Wikipedia article A_Girl's_Guide_to_21st_Century_Sex, available under CC BY-SA.
Films like A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex
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She's Too Young
Explores how sexually transmitted infections spread through a teenage social circle, mirroring the series' focus on STI awareness.
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The Lovers' Guide: Igniting Desire
A sex-education documentary aimed at consenting adults, sharing the same instructional, body-positive approach to pleasure and technique.
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How to Have Sex
Tracks young British women navigating sexual experience on holiday, examining the same real-world stakes the series addressed honestly.
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Sex
A documentary that interrogates the meaning and history of sex, extending the series' curious, wide-angle perspective on the subject.
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Puberty: Sexual Education For Boys and Girls
Covers puberty, development, and sexual hygiene with the same matter-of-fact educational clarity as the series.
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Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Examines female sexuality as portrayed in Hollywood, focusing on Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Sharon Stone.
Books to read after A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex
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The Seventeen guide to sex and your body
Addresses teenage girls' questions about puberty, love, and sex drawn from real letters, echoing the series' accessible, question-led structure.
Book
Sex and sex education: a bibliography
A research bibliography spanning sex education literature, useful for anyone seeking to go deeper into the subject the series surveyed.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex
A practical guide to sex from an educator's perspective, offering the same spirit of accessible, non-judgmental instruction.
Book
Changing bodies, changing lives
Discusses teenage sexuality and adolescent change candidly, sharing the series' willingness to address physical and emotional dimensions together.
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It's so amazing!
Uses approachable characters to explain reproduction, STIs, and sexual development plainly — the same demystifying instinct as the series.
Book
A pocket guide to enjoying sex
A practical illustrated guide covering positions, seduction, and pleasure techniques, matching the series' hands-on, educational intent.
More series like A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex
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Sex, Explained
Ranges from the biology of attraction to contraception history, matching the series' entertaining yet informative format.
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Sex Life
A voyeuristic documentary series exploring erotic experience, sharing the series' candid, observational tone toward sexual life.
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Skin to the Max
Documents real sex clubs and fetish practices worldwide, carrying the same non-judgmental curiosity toward diverse sexual behaviour.
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The Girl's Guide to Depravity
A comedy series built around frank female perspectives on sex and desire, lighter in tone but similarly direct.
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Dying for Sex
A terminal cancer diagnosis prompts a woman to explore her sexual desires fully for the first time.
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Doctor Climax
A Thai dermatologist anonymously becomes a sex-advice columnist, triggering a mass cultural awakening in 1970s Bangkok.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex?
For more documentary-style sex education, Sex, Explained covers attraction and birth control with a similar entertaining-yet-informative tone. Dying for Sex takes a more personal, dramatic angle — one woman's urgent exploration of desire after a terminal diagnosis.
What books are like A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex?
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex offers the same approachable, educator-led guidance for adults, while Changing Bodies, Changing Lives covers teenage sexuality with comparable candour and emotional honesty.
Why did A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex stand out as a series?
It was presented by Dr Catherine Hood and tackled an unusually wide range of topics — from STIs and erectile dysfunction to sex reassignment surgery and tantric sex — across eight structured episodes, treating each subject with clinical seriousness rather than sensationalism.