The Truth About Female Desire online
In a major science event led by John Bancroft, six single girls share a dormitory at Brunel University, London, where scientists from the Kinsey Institute perform sexual experiments on them to determine the true nature of female desire.The four episodes include: "The BIG O," "SEX DRIVE," "EVOLUTION," and "HOW WE WORK."It's now 100 years since Freud first speculated about female sexuality but with the new technology available today we are closer to working out what makes female sexuality so mysterious. Over the course of a week, a group of real life Carrie Bradshaws, Samanthas, Charlottes and Mirandas will have the adventure of a lifetime as they take part in a series of cutting edge experiments to work out what makes their libidos tick.
Fact will be separated from fiction as the scientists discover whether there is really a g-spot, why women are attracted to certain men, whether it is possible to tell whether a man is going to be good in bed and what the real turn ons and turn off are from a female perspective.
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I love how they totally ignored us lesbians. I guess we're just too damn mysterious for a four part mini-series.
You'd think that lesbians, homosexuals, and bisexuals are totally different species, or that they simply don't exist, to judge by the way they are completely ignored whenever the topic of sex comes up.
Showing a pretty woman? "This will please you gents out there!"
Showing a pretty man? "Take a good look, ladies!"
"Pink is for girls, blue is for boys...."
Sorry, GLBT community: you're square pegs, and all we have are round holes. Therefore, you don't exist. So pardon the pun, but Bugger Off, please!
but with the new technology available today we are closer to working out what makes female sexuality so mysterious
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And pink for girls is not that old. It seems to not have been firmly set until the '50's, and before that it was reversed. In the early part of the 20th century pink was for boys and blue for girls.
It's intellectual porn!
But yes, the binary gender/sexuality issue is sad, especially since this was done in part with the Kinsey Institute, whose founder infamously created that little ol' sexuality scale.
And is female sexuality really that mysteriious? Or rather, any more so than male?
That first quoted paragraph makes it sound completely porny.
@Twig: I guess you're saying that ads create a mystique around women to sell stuff. (Sorry if I'm putting words in your mouth.) I agree, if you are. Yes, those vixens sure are inscrutable. Especially the Asian ones!
The only facts we have been able to determine are 1) a woman changes her mind a lot; 2) she has something called "a woman's intuition," which is never wrong; and 3) she does not poo.
Sorry, I've had WAY too much coffee today. I'll stop.
It's a 4 part series with a limited scope, maybe the next 4 parts will be about GLBTM etc...
Quit whining because everything's not about you.
A good discussion of the biological basis for human sexuality can be found in "The Myth of Monogamy", which is by an ornithologist and an MD who discuss recent research into paternity in nominally monogamous species and come up with some interesting but relatively unsurprising conclusions.
@#8: "It's a 4 part series with a limited scop"
Right, the tiny subject of Female Desire. No scope, there.
Maybe the series does cover GLBT. My comments still stand in regard to our culture, and this is a good forum for the discussion, IMO.
JON47, how would you like it if a documentary about "Opinions" didn't cover people who dismiss others' with a namecalling sneer?
Left out, I'm guessing.
With such a large sample size from such a broad cross-section of demographics, surely we can extrapolate these results to half of the entire human population!
Way to confuse reality TV with scientific research, Kinsey Institute and Brunel U.
PS: the topic is Femaels. Not Heterosexual Females. So it IS about misplacedmodifier. Just in an offensively blinkered way.
So, it explores the real turn-ons and turn-offs from a female perspective. Scientifically. From a sample of six. Not just, but also scientifically ascertains what's attractive in men, and whether one can predict, through empirical observation, whether a man will be good in bed or not. From a sample of six women, heterosexuals only, judging from the heteronormative slant. Good thing there are studies like this to save human sexuality from pigeonholing.
Aetherkat: you raise a good point about the size of the sample. It's fair game to ask about that, IMO, since they are couching the show in scientific terms, and claiming to have "The Truth."
I haven't seen the four episodes so I'm commenting above mostly about every single documentary on sex I've seen to date. Every one of which has been blinkered and disappointingly narrow in coverage.
Aetherkat: you raise a good point about the size of the sample. It's fair game to ask about that, IMO, since they are couching the show in scientific terms, and claiming to have "The Truth."
I haven't seen the four episodes so I'm commenting above mostly about every single documentary on sex I've seen to date. Every one of which has been blinkered and disappointingly narrow in coverage.
Totally agree about the ridiculous sample size and absence of women who like women.
I'm also especially fond of the sentence, "It's now 100 years since Freud first speculated about female sexuality." Wow, female sexuality has been around for a hundred whole years? And it originated with a man? Who knew!
Is it safe to assume that these 6 "girls" are in their late teens/early twenties since they are in a dormitory? And are women still considered to be at their sexual peak in their 30s?
Isn't the truth about female desire one of those things you can find out by asking, you know, women? Are they in such short supply? Are they incapable of speaking? Are they too looking for the truth about female desire, or are they withholding the truth for some hitherto unknown reason? Isn't it in their best interest to tell the truth? And why is it necessary to perform "sexual experiments" on them, whatever those are, like some kind of lab animals?
Yeesh.
Can we really call it 'scientific' if it's just made to entertain frat boys?
>JON47, how would you like it if a documentary about >"Opinions" didn't cover people who dismiss others' >with a namecalling sneer?
>Left out, I'm guessing.
Precisely where did I name call anybody or sneer? I'm just saying that addressing every single angle of possible sexuality would result in a far wider scope for the movie. If you want a 24 part masterpiece then go make a movie yourself; in the meantime, would it not make sense to make comments on what the movie is rather than what it is not?
@#20:
It's perfectly reasonable for people to criticise a documentary that purports to reveal "The Truth About Female Desire" for being too narrow.
No one said it should cover "every single angle of possible sexuality." Just the ones that are reasonable to expect given the topic and the title. And that includes lesbians. Sorry, but it just does.
And people should feel free to opine on any movie, whether they have made one or not.
PS: You said: "Quit whining because everything's not about you."
Do I need to tell you that people don't like to be called whiners when they express their opinions? That's just not nice.
Everybody play nice. There's plenty to discuss here.
o0oo00o0o, yes, female sexuality is mysterious. The phenomenon itself isn't that much more mysterious than male sexuality, but the social conditioning around it is a labyrinth.
Aetherkat (13), personally, I divide human sexual behavior into geek and non-geek. Nobody ever addresses that.
David D. (18): Ask women what they desire? As in --
Too newfangled. It'll never work.yes, but how do you find the "hot-bone?
Context?
"six single girls share a dormitory at Brunel University, London, where scientists from the Kinsey Institute perform sexual experiments on them"
I wish I could comment on this without making light of such an important study. :(
Dammit, they should have explicitly called it "The Truth about the Desire of Heterosexual Females of a Particular Age Group In One Specific Culture". Then it would have been okay.
SCIENTISTS! SHOCKING AS IT MAY SEEM, WE WATCH PORN ALSO.
Now go do something useful like patching up that ozone layer or finding a cure for AIDS. :P
Teresa: you must not have spellchecked that quote you posted at #22 because it is riddled with typos! I kid, I kid.
Aaaaargh! Why do we all have to be Carries or Samanthas or Charlottes or Mirandas? Do women only come in four different flavours?
And by that classification, we can also assume our sample of six participants are also all crazily upper middle class with very little in common with the rest of humanity.
What about female desire in 68 year old new divorcees? Or female desire in single teen mothers in housing estates? Or female desire in rape survivors from the DRC?
The only "truth" here is that putting together six hot young women in a dorm under the guise of doing sex research makes for great TV ratings.
(disclaimer: haven't watched the show, downloading the torrent now, so forgive me if my assumptions made based on the press release are off)
'six single girls share a dormitory where scientists perform sexual experiments on them'.
I think I've seen that movie. Several times.
JonCro, I think you're on to something there. Maybe the point of this series is how you can describe it in advance. For instance:
(I've written a lot of cover copy.)Six young girls come together to explore their deepest desires...
but only one of them will survive!
Did anybody actually watch it? I did. There were 8 women, a few of which were bisexual/bicurious, and one who was openly a lesbian. It wasn't about 'what turns you on' as much as 'how, physically and mentally, are women turned on'. The disconnection of mental excitement and physical excitement, etc.
It was a bit rubbish, purely because it didn't tell me anything new or exciting -- Violet Blue has way more to offer, but as an intro to shy British girls, it was well executed.
That's good to know, j.black. Thanks.
Having lived for a year on the same floor of the same hall of residence as appears to be featured here, I find this... oddly disturbing.
(Before this I would have considered it physically impossible for six people to *fit* in one of those rooms.)