How Sex Changed the World
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How Sex Changed the World

Season 1
Food, water and shelter are all necessary to man's survival. But there's another powerful need that has transformed history, silently steering us at every turn... sex. HOW SEX CHANGED THE WORLD spans thousands of years and sheds light on how sex has changed history: from Ghengis Khan using it to expand the Mongol Empire to the survival of harems for thousands of years.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - America's Sex Pioneers

    April 19, 2013
    42min
    TV-14
    From the Puritan "mandatory sex" rule for married couples to Ben Franklin's racy newspapers, these are the stories behind America's sex pioneers.
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  2. S1 E2 - Sex for Sale

    April 26, 2013
    43min
    TV-14
    The world's oldest profession turns up where you'd least expect it, including as a major source of revenue for the Catholic Church and as the driving force behind America's first racially integrated neighborhood.
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  3. S1 E3 - Sex Rebels

    May 3, 2013
    42min
    TV-14
    From Ancient Rome to Washington, D.C., discover how the world changes when powerful people shamelessly shatter boundaries and break rules for fun.
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  4. S1 E4 - Sexpocalypse

    May 10, 2013
    42min
    TV-14
    These are the unbelievable true stories behind what happens when people treat sex like doomsday, from the little-known sex coverup in Pompeii to J. Edgar Hoover's legendary Obscene Files.
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  5. S1 E5 - Sex & Power

    May 17, 2013
    42min
    TV-14
    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 woman's time in a prince's modern-day harem.
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  6. S1 E6 - Superheroes of Sex

    May 31, 2013
    1 h 13 min
    TV-14
    From the man who discovered the Kama Sutra to sexologist Alfred Kinsey, these are the stories behind the "Superheroes of Sex."
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  7. S1 E7 - Sex & War

    June 7, 2013
    42min
    TV-14
    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, discover how sex has decided wars and changed the world.
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  8. S1 E8 - Extreme Sex

    June 14, 2013
    42min
    TV-14
    From Emperor Nero's now famous sex parties to Teddy Roosevelt's crusades against sex-ridden New York City, these unbelievably true stories reveal what happens when people take sex to the extreme.
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  9. S1 E9 - Sex Gone Wrong

    June 21, 2013
    42min
    TV-14
    Many people have tried to harness the power of sex for their own gain, but sometimes these basic instincts backfire.
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  10. S1 E10 - Sexperiment

    June 28, 2013
    42min
    TV-14
    These are the surprising stories behind how scientists, the government, and even the judicial system have harnessed sex to change world history.
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