With HBO’s Real Sex now long gone—and no longer airing even in repeats, as AVN.com reported—what programming remains on television to explore the various permutations and fringes of human sexuality?
The mantle has currently fallen to sex blogger, columnist and author Karley Sciortino (pictured above), a self-described “slut” whose memoir Slutever: Dispatches from a Sexually Autonomous Woman in a Post-Shame World serves as inspiration for her on-camera explorations in the Viceland channel docu-series Slutever, which debuted with a 10-episode run last year.
Slutever returned to TV screens with the premiere episode of Season Two on February 10. The episode dove into the world of virtual realty sex, while the second episode of the season, airing February 17, covers “Vagina Power.” For viewers whose cable services do not include Viceland, each episode of the series is available online—including all 10 first-season installments—at this link.
“The show is pretty much a comedy documentary series that explores sexuality in a modern world. The goal was really to choose topics that we could celebrate—it’s a celebration of sex,” the 32-year-old Sciortino explained, in an interview with the Australian site MamaMia.com. “The way the media represents sex can be very sensationalized. If anyone tries anything different the commentary is very much ‘look at these freaks in their dungeon’ or people just talk about about the way sex can be dangerous. I’m trying to change that.”
Sciortino’s first season of Slutever saw her covering such topics as “Stoned Sex”—in which “Karley takes her orgasms to a higher state of consciousness” through cannabis—as well as “the kink travel industry,” “luxury sex” and in the season finale, “Monster Fantasy.”
In that season-concluding episode, Sciortino “explores the world of monster erotica, meeting up with a handful of people who get turned on by creatures you'd typically find in horror movies. She gets to know the creators of dragon dildos, checks out werewolf porn, and tries to parse out exactly what it is about evil beasts that gets some people going,” according to a VICE summary.
As for her embrace of the term slut as an emblem of her own identity, the Slutever host told Interview Magazine, “It’s about redefining the idea of the slut as less of a pejorative term, reclaiming it to be a symbol of power, and agency, and autonomy.”
“A slut is a sexually activated person, a slut is a sexually activated woman, a slut is a person who seeks out visceral experiences through sex and is not ashamed about how or why they want to fuck who they want to fuck,” she told Interview.
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