The best TV series on sex

The sex On TV it is everywhere, yet it is still rare that it is told for what it really is: a subjective, imperfect, emotional, sometimes awkward, sometimes powerful experience. Too often, even in the most sophisticated TV series, the sex scenes are aestheticized, functional to the shock or folded to the male gaze. But there is a new generation of authors and authors who has decided to do things differently. In these series – often signed by women, queer or creators who are not afraid to show vulnerability – sex becomes a narrative language, a space of truth. Here are some titles that manage to tell it authenticly, intimate, empathicly. Without ever being free.

1. Normal People (available for free on Raiplay)

Based on the novel by Sally Rooney, Normal People He tells the love story between Marianne and Connell with an almost hypnotic delicacy. In this delicate miniseries, sex is sensory and intellectual. Marianne and Connell find in the body the most honest way to communicate emotions that cannot say in words. The silences, the gestures, the embarrassment: each scene is a piece of truth, a dance between pride and intimacy. Consent is not only implicit, it is breathed.

2. Sex education (on Netflix)

Aimee Gibbs is not afraid to go to the bottom of what can like them to bed. So, after asking Otis how to understand him, he advises her to do tests alone. So he masturbates in his room, without brakes, between teddy bears of plush and abat Jour Rosa.

Despite the teen drama system, Sex education It is one of the most honest and most articulated series ever written on sex. Each character experiences a path of different discovery, often marked by insecurities, fears, evolving identities. Sex is never idealized, on the contrary: it is also shown in its awkwardness, in its absence, in its unexpected events. The advice of real sexologists on the set helped build scenes that educate without preaching.

3. Fleabag (First video)

Phoebe Waller-Bridge has rewritten the rules of female representation on TV, and sex is no exception. In Fleabagevery sexual encounter is full of subtest: anger, solitude, need for control, desire to escape. Sex is a way to survive, to feel alive, to hide from pain. But it is also something from which you can heal. The series manages to show how dysfunctional sex can be, but also deeply human.

4. I May Destroy You (NowTV)

Michaela Coel has created one of the most radical series of recent years. Sex in I May Destroy You It is never banal: there is the trauma, of course, but also the search for a new freedom. Each scene is a small essay on the complexity of consent. Coel uses sex to disassemble stereotypes, interrogate the culture of rape and put the body back to the center as a self -determination space.

5. The L Word: Generation q (First video)

The new generation of The L Word It corrects many of the errors of the original series, offering a more multifaceted, inclusive and realistic look at queer sexual experiences. The sex scenes are numerous, but rarely free: there is a variety of bodies, desires, rhythms, emotions. The pleasure is not a performative, but relational. It is one of the few series in which you can see queer women having sex among them in an authentic way, without the filter of soft porn for straight.

6. Transparent (First video)

The series created by Jill Soloway made school as it tells the gender identity, but also for the way in which it shows sex as an integral part of self -exploration. Whether it’s the protagonist Maura, of his children or partners who orbit around the Pfafferman family, sex is always linked to the search for belonging and truth. The scenes are explicit, but never sensationalistic.