A Girl's Guide to 21st Century xxx is an 8 part TV series about xxx,
billed as a documentary and running on the British broadcasting station
Five. The 45-minute long episodes (including advertisements) were
broadcast on Monday nights and presented by Dr. Catherine Hood. The
series started on 30 October 2006, with the final programme broadcast on
18 December 2006.



Each episode explained a xxx position and covered a xxxually transmitted
disease. Additionally the following topics were covered: xxx among
handicapped people, penis enlargement devices, penis enlargement
surgery, anal xxx, tantric xxx, the g-spot, erectile dysfunction, xxx
reassignment surgery, cosmetic surgery of the vagina (labiaplasty),
swinging, xxx on public toilets, full body plastic wrap bondage, and xxx
dolls.



The first few episodes of the series are extremely explicit, showing
erect penises and close-ups of a vulva as well as detailed footage of
xxxual intercourse including penetration and ejaculation (both filmed
with a tiny camera from within the vagina). In subsequent episodes, most
such footage was heavily (and seemingly hastily) censored through
blurring; however, the programme remains perhaps the most explicit ever
to be broadcast on mainstream UK television.[citation needed]



After one of the more explicit scenes was uploaded to Google Video, it
was discussed on the Internet[1] before being quickly removed from the
site. The segments remain available on several BitTorrent networks.



Twenty-one people complained to the national television regulator,
Ofcom, that the explicitness of the xxxual scenes breached obscenity and
broadcasting regulations, but in their 29 January bulletin[2], Ofcom
ruled that there was no rule banning the showing of genuine xxxual acts
on free-to-air television, and that "in [their] view the portrayal of
xxx in this programme genuinely sought to inform and educate",
concluding that "whilst the visuals were explicit at times, nothing was
transmitted in a manner that could be construed as having the potential
to harm people under the age of eighteen", particularly given its
context as a serious factual programme, and as such it was ruled that
the episodes were not in breach of any broadcasting regulations.