Did You See “Truth About Female Desire”: Part 1

The British Channel 4 series: “The Truth About Female Desire” was a fascinating and wide ranging exploration of female sexuality with a firm grounding in science. Whether you saw the programmes or not I hope you will be interested in the reviews. This part covers how the programme was run; how the female sex organs work and what happens to them when a woman becomes sexually aroused.

For the programme, eight women volunteered to be ‘sex guinea pigs’ and assist scientists trying to discover more about how women’s sex organs work. They were invited to an hotel where they stayed together for the duration of the series of experiments.

The first episode researched genital physiology and arousal. As you can only visually see the tip of the clitoris it is difficult to understand what changes occur when a woman is sexually aroused. It is easy to see a man’s reaction to being sexually stimulated. A stiff erect penis is an obvious indication that he likes what he is doing or seeing. Individually, two of the woman agreed to participate in an experiment to see the effect of being aroused. They had to sit in a large shallow bath of (what they...