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 second part first explains again how the programme was run. It then covers the programme parts that investigated: the variable shape of the female vulva; how women respond to porn films; fantasies about having sex with another woman; and how seeing sexual activity can turn women on even when they don’t realise it.
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.
To emphasise the different shapes and sizes of the vulva, they were given soft moulding material to make a caste of their own vulva.
When completed they were asked to look at all the castes. It was amazing how variable the shapes were. They were then asked to pick their own caste. It turned out that most girls did...