Real Sex

Real Sex is a documentary television series broadcast on and a production of HBO. As its name implies, Real Sex is a sexually explicit "magazine" which "explores sex '90s style."

Real Sex explores human sexuality. Gary R. Edgerton and Jeffrey P. Jones described the fare in The Essential HBO Reader as "a peek into the diversity of sexual activities...with an emphasis that ranges from the unusual to the bizarre." The show typically explores three to four topics each episode. Segments are separated by street interviews with random people, relating to the episode's topics.

It spawned a spin-off series called Pornucopia.

Lost Media Status
While a hit show for HBO during its original run in the 90s (with HBO rerunning the series and compiling "best of" episodes to air late night well into the early 2000s), the series has become lost media. HBO has declined to include it in any of its various streaming services such as HBO Go and HBO Max/Max. In the Vice documentary series "Sex Before The Internet", series creator Sheila Nevins lamented the show's lost media status; stating that HBO largely disowned the series after finding mainstream critical success with shows like "The Sopranos" and "The Wire" and considers the series and other sexually explicit shows such as "The Cathouse", as old shames.