How Sex Changed the World

S01E01 America's Sex Pioneers

April 20, 2013

From America's earliest days, sex has shaped and defined our country. From the Puritan "mandatory sex" rule for married couples to Ben Franklin's racy newspapers and even car design, these are the stories behind America's...

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S01E02 Sex for Sale

April 27, 2013 60 min

The world's oldest profession turns up in the places you'd least expect it: as a major source of revenue for the Catholic Church, the driving force behind America's first racially integrated neighborhood, and the launch...

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S01E03 Sex Rebels

May 4, 2013

From Ancient Rome to Washington DC and everywhere in-between, discover how the world changes when powerful people shamelessly shatter boundaries and break rules. In this episode, a Roman empress turns to prostitution for fun, the...

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S01E04 Sexpocalypse

May 11, 2013 60 min

Sex is powerful force of nature and for some; it's like the end of world. These are the unbelievably true stories behind what happens when people treat sex like doomsday: from the little known sex...

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S01E05 Sex & Power

May 18, 2013

These are the surprisingly true stories about how the sex lives of the powerful have shaken up history: from Warren G. Harding's days as a playboy, to one women's time in a prince's modern day...

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S01E06 Superheroes of Sex

June 1, 2013 60 min

Da Vinci's work to the man who discovered and translated the Kama Sutra.

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S01E07 Sex & War

June 8, 2013 60 min

Nothing unleashes sex like war–after all, if you were going to die tomorrow, what would you want to do tonight? From Ancient Roman battalions to seductive spies to how soldiers spent their down time in...

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S01E08 Extreme Sex

June 15, 2013 60 min

These unbelievably true stories reveal what happens when people take sex to the extreme: from Emperor Nero's now famous sex parties to Teddy Roosevelt's crusades against sex-ridden New York City and the invention of a...

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S01E09 Sex Gone Wrong

June 22, 2013 60 min

Sex is one of the most powerful human needs and many people have tried to harness its power for their own gain. But those attempts often backfire. From Jack Parsons, an American rocket scientist who...

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S01E10 Sexperiment

June 29, 2013

These are the surprising stories behind how scientists, the government and even the judicial system have harnessed sex to change world history: from covert experimental CIA orgies to the Middle Ages' "honest woman" test to...

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