Soap opera sex ‘a turn-off’
PA Auckland Soap opera sex is turning people off in the bedroom, says an Auckland psychologist and sexologist, Mr Pierre Beautrais. Television programmes from “The Young Doctors” to the “Benny Hill Show” trivialised sex, making it smutty and negative, he said. “Sexuality should be a force, not a farce. It should be shown with the intellec- , tual, spiritual and emotional components, not just the physical.” Mr Beautrais said purely physical sex was “ho-hum” and, far from making people hungry for more, it bored them. "Sex should be the joy of not just genitalia.”
He recently returned from the World Congress of Sexology in New Delhi where he delivered a paper on sex therapy in a changing New Zealand. He told the congress he had collected 300 synonyms for sexual intercourse, most of which indicated someone doing something unpleasant to someone else. “Even the common ‘make love’ is not satisfactory. Just as you cannot make a sneeze, you cannot make love. What you can do is create a design for living which allows love.” Mr Beautrais said that while the Benny Hill and “Young Doctors” sex images would not go away, programmes should try to portray sex as a force of integrity and stability.
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