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# We'll Tell You What the New TV Show _Sex Box_ Is About But It's Kinda Self-Explanatory

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## Kyle Chayka


Mar 12, 2014 2:53 PM UTC

by 

[Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/)


## Kyle Chayka


Mar 12, 2014 2:53 PM UTC

No matter how much porn people are watching, real-life sex is still taboo. So why not put couples into a large box, wait while they have sex, then interview them when they come out to get an honest take on sexual activity? At least that’s the premise of _Sex Box_, a British show that’s now [coming to the U.S.](http://www.deadline.com/2014/03/sex-box-reality-series-we-tv-adaptation-video/) courtesy of WEtv.

The show, a full episode of which can be seen on YouTube, is kind of like _American Idol_, but we don’t get to see the performances. Average couples—both gay and straight—are introduced, then they go into the box and have sex (“with a little bit of extra pressure,” the host says). Afterward, the couples are grilled by three celebrity panelists, including the popular American sex columnist Dan Savage.

The conversations that result are fairly anodyne, though they do get into some specific acts. But the interviews get at themes of emotional intimacy versus physical intimacy, and honesty about sexual desires. It’s enough to imagine the show getting played in front of a bunch of middle schoolers following a sex-ed class.

Who will judge the American _Sex Box_? Dr. Phil, perhaps, or Slate’s Emily Yoffe, who writes the site’s popular Dear Prudence column. [Timothy Ferriss](http://vixely.com/2011/09/05/sex-hacking-the-bold-moves-of-tim-ferriss/), maybe? Whoever it is, they better have strong constitutions—conservatives are bound to have a fit over the show.

_Sex Box_’s couples are all happy after getting out of the box (who wouldn’t be?), but if the show is going to represent a true cross-section of American sex, there should probably be some bad encounters in there as well. As one couple notes, sometimes the box just doesn’t measure up: “The best time we had sex was the first time we had sex,” they say.

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