Decider After Dark

The 10 Sexiest Documentaries About Sex

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Do you enjoy sexytimes but wish you could learn something at the same time? Then this list of the 10 Best Documentaries About Sex should be right up your alley.
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TITLE: Real Sex (1990)
HBO stopped producing new episodes of the groundbreaking documentary series described as "the 60 Minutes of sex" back in 2009, but you can still enjoy episodes on HBO Go.
[Watch Real Sex on HBO Go]

Photo: HBO

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TITLE: Polyamory: Married & Dating (2012)
This Showtime series about swingers ran for two seasons, and trust us, you've never seen a show quite like it! The emotions and dynamics are nuanced, and the characters are deep, smart and seem like actual humans. Oh, and they're super hot, too!
[Watch Polyamory on Showtime]

Photo: Showtime

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TITLE: After Porn Ends (2012)
What's the transition like from being paid to have sex on camera to, well, not being paid to have sex on camera? This 2012 documentary explores how former porn stars like Asia Carrera, Nina Hartley, Mary Carey and more adjusted to their life after adult films.
[Watch After Porn Ends on Netflix]

Photo: Netflix

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TITLE: Real Life Wife Swap (2004)
Remember that ABC show Wife Swap, where wives lived with different families for a week? Well, this is NOTHING like that. In this BBC docs-series, swinging isn't something you just do on a swings.
[Watch Real Life Wife Swap on Netflix]

Photo: Netflix

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TITLE: Cathouse: King Of The House (2014)
Cathouse was a popular docu-series that ran on HBO in the early aughts, capitalizing on the runaway success of HBO's documentary films Cathouse and Cathouse 2: Back In The Saddle. There hasn't been a new episode of the show centered around the Moonlite BunnyRanch, a legal brothel in Nevada, in a few years, but you can watch a "new" (ish) documentary on Dennis Hof and his crew of sexy employees called Cathouse: King Of The House on HBO's streaming services.
[Watch Cathouse: King Of The House on HBO Go]

Photo: HBO

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TITLE: Escorts (2015)
There are a lot of documentaries out there about the world's oldest profession. Escorts, which was originally titled High Class Call Girls when it debuted on the BBC, shows the day-to-day lives of Cookie Jane and Emily B., two prostitutes who operate almost exclusively using the internet.
[Watch Escorts on Netflix]

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TITLE: Hot Girls Wanted
Netflix always claims that HBO is not their competitor, but their decision to release this controversial doc about online porn in 2015 shows that they've paid close attention to the formula that made HBO successful. How popular was this show? The sequel to HGW is not a movie, but rather, a 6-part docu-series.
[Watch Hot Girls Wanted on Netflix]

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TITLE: X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time (2016)
Hosted by none other than Mr. Skin (!), this "documentary" puts the spotlight on the most popular porn stars from past to present.
[Watch X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars Of All-Time on Hulu]

Photo: Showtime

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TITLE: Respectable: The Mary Millington Story
This documentary film chronicles the extraordinary life and tragic death of Mary Millington - Britain's most famous pornographic actress of the 1970s.
[Watch Respectable: The Mary Millington Story on Netflix]

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TITLE: Best Of Sex: 2016 AVN Awards (2016)
Do you love the Oscars but wish they spent more time talking about sex scenes? Then this Showtime documentary about the 2016 Adult Video News awards is for you!
[Watch the 2016 AVN Awards on Showtime]

Photo: Showtime