'Real Sex' offers erotic experience

If you thought HBO said all there was to say about sex in their first 21 "Real Sex" episodes, you're wrong. This month HBO titillates viewers with its fresh, kinky cornucopia of sexual delights in "Real Sex 22." The show offers viewers an erotic experience along with a good laugh.

From ménage-a-trois with a rubber doll to a sex farm that redefines the meaning of a petting zoo, "Real Sex 22" serves up a bit of everything on its sexual platter.

Maintaining the tradition of street interviews adds a little bit of normalcy to the otherwise outlandish program. It brings a nice touch and gives comfort to know you don't have to have sex with an over-sized Barbie to have an exciting sex life.

This is not to say that the segment on the "Party Doll" is not intriguing. Au contraire. Throughout the program, the music enhances the viewing experience. Using the frivolous, catchy tune "Party Doll," the song drums along happily as a couple gets it on with a big plastic doll. The music not only alleviates the viewer's tendency toward discomfort by making light of the visuals, but it also provides humor for even the seasoned sexual connoisseur.

The visuals are not the only humorous element with a shot of one cow licking another, intercut with shots of wooden shoes and tulips leads the viewer to wonder if he or she is going to see Dutch animals mating. Instead, "Real Sex 22" investigates "Fun for Two," formerly a barn in Holland, now an orgy palace for couples.

There is also the wedding of Princess and Thirteen of the "Impotent Sea Snakes" at the Exotic Erotic Ball in San Francisco. With wedding vows delivered by a silver satin and consummated by cutting a cunnilingus cake, the drag queen and his new bride become "man" and wife. The satin minister's choice of words comes probably more to clarify that there is indeed a man involved, since Thirteen dons earrings and a pink wig as he says "I do."

Whether a man suspended from the ceiling by metal hangers in his skin turns you on or not, it is worth seeing.

"Real Sex 22" makes a fresh addition to the sometimes stale series. Its witty blend of irony and humor with sexually explicit material is as much entertaining as it is erotic. Whether you are aroused, offended or merely amused, "Real Sex 22" will undoubtedly engender a reaction.

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