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Sex, Explained

★ 6.9 4K votes 2020–2020 1 season · 5 episodes Ended Netflix
DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 7/10
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About

"Sex-ed reimagined as breezy, myth-busting pop science"

A breezy educational series that breaks down human sexuality into bite-sized episodes, covering topics like attraction, kink, contraception, and monogamy through interviews with researchers, therapists, and educators. Each episode runs under 20 minutes and mixes playful animation with frank, myth-busting explanations. It's the sex-ed class you wish you'd had: informative without being clinical, casual without being crude. Nothing here is deeply provocative or explicit; it's more curious primer than titillation, aimed at viewers who want quick, credible answers to questions they were too embarrassed to ask elsewhere.

Watch it for

the quick, judgment-free breakdowns of topics most people never got a straight answer on.

Maybe skip if

you want deep dives rather than surface-level, episode-sized overviews of each topic.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12020
6.81K51h 51m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Sexual Fantasies6.5
34219 min
▶2Attraction6.6
29617 min
▶3Birth Control7.2
26925 min
▶4Fertility6.9
23724 min
▶5Childbirth6.8
23526 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Janelle Monáe Self - Narrator
Lisa Diamond Self - Psychologist
Justin Lehmiller Self - Sex Researcher
Shareen Joshi Self - Economist
Myles Makalia Self - Infertile Couple
Joy-Sarah Vink Self - OB-GYN
Margaret Cho Self - Comedian
Loretta Ross Self - Activist
Viren Swami Self - Author, Attraction Explained
Kristin Myers Self - Mechanical Engineer

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