The Truth About Female Desire

Educational program - four films

DOCUMENTARY: The Truth About Female Desire (1 of 4)

Channel: Channel 4

Date: Monday 29th August 2005

Duration: 48:03



How We Work.



Channel 4 Science collaborates with the world renowned Kinsey Institute

to conduct a groundbreaking investigation into female sexuality.



Eight inquisitive young women from all over Britain come together to embark

on a journey of sexual self-discovery as their sex lives go under the microscope.



Over the course of a week, the women live together and take part in a number

of ground breaking experiments under the guidance of Dr John Bancroft, former

head of the Kinsey Institute, and several other leading authorities in the field of

female sexuality.



In this first episode, the emphasis is on genital physiology and arousal, and the

women make the astonishing discovery that the clitoris is a massive 9cm long.



Two of the girls get to take part in a pioneering experiment to capture the first

ever internal 3D images of the clitoris during sexual arousal.



In another experiment, the women learn that they can be unaware of their

own physical sexual arousal, highlighting the fact that genital response is not

always central to a woman's sexual experience.



As well as taking part in the experiments, the women take time with the

scientists to discuss the research and get answers to questions about their

own interesting sex lives.



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DOCUMENTARY: The Truth About Female Desire (3 of 4)

Channel: Channel 4

Date: Wednesday 31st August 2005

Duration: 46:35



Sex Drive.



Channel 4 Science collaborates with the world renowned Kinsey Institute

to conduct a groundbreaking investigation into female sexuality, as eight

women come together to put their sex lives under the microscope.



Tonight the women find out about the precise nature of the female sex

drive and the many factors that influence it. Dr Erick Janssen from the

Kinsey Institute in America devises a classic placebo experiment to

explore the role of the mind in influencing sex drive.



Giving all the women a necklace, Dr Janssen tells half the group that their

necklace contains pheromones, which will increase their sex drive, and the

other half that their necklace contains a substance that will decrease their

sex drive.



In reality, the necklaces are all the same and contain no active substance.

The experiment is designed to see whether the power of suggestion affects

women's sexual responses and the results are astonishing.



The programme also tests the affects of alcohol and mood on women's

sex drive and again, the results prove interesting to both the women and

scientists conducting the experiments.



Concludes tomorrow.



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DOCUMENTARY: The Truth About Female Desire ( 4 of 4)

Channel: Channel 4

Date: Thursday 1st September 2005

Duration: 46:50



The Big O.



Channel 4 Science collaborates with the world renowned Kinsey Institute

to conduct a groundbreaking investigation into female sexuality.



In this final programme in the series, the eight women are coming to the

end of their intensive week of sexual self-discovery and putting their sex lives

under the microscope.



Tonight Dr John Bancroft, former head of the Kinsey Institute, helps them try

and understand the nature and purpose of the female orgasm.



One of the women takes part in a pioneering study being conducted by leading

neuroscientist Dr Gert Holstege, becoming the first British woman to have a

brain scan to find out what happens to the brain during sexual arousal and orgasm.



Another of the girls volunteers to have blood taken whilst aroused to find out what

hormones are active during orgasm.



Dr Pierre Bouloux, who conducts the experiment, is genuinely amazed to find that

the stress hormone adrenalin rose to levels more usually associated with a heart

attack!



At the end of the week of scientific endeavour, the women and scientists reflect on

the unique experiment in which that they have taken part and discuss how much

both parties have learnt from the experience.



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MP3 - 160 kb/s CBR - 48 kHz