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Subjects: Sexuality

  • Living and Growing

    Living and Growing was developed by Channel 4 in response to requests from teachers and heads for a resource that promotes sex and relationship education as a developmental process, beginning in the early years at an appropriate level and progressing through childhood and adolescence into adulthood, thus becoming an integral part of the curriculum entitlement for all children

    PLEASE NOTE: These programs address sensitive issues. It is recommended that teachers watch the programmes as part of their lesson preparation before showing them to pupils.

  • LGBTQ Acceptance: Joey’s Story

    LGBTQ Acceptance: Joey’s Story

    When reaching puberty at the age of 12, Joey was coming to the realization that that he was gay. Within his school and community, Joey felt that he was the one gay teenager. This terrified him. He confided in a “friend” who soon spread the word around school. Joey became the target of bullying and ridicule. Then it happened at home. His father could not accept that his son was gay and abandoned the family. Soon after, his mother abandoned him as well, leaving him to live with his “unaccepting” grandparents. He was alone in the world. The only way out, so he thought, was to take his own life. This is Joey’s heartbreaking story.

  • Identifying Transgender: David’s Story

    Identifying Transgender: David’s Story

    As far back as David can remember, he did not identify with being a little girl. He wished he were a boy. Depression and anxiety set in and it just got worse until puberty hit and he could no longer deal with it. He told his parents that he identified with being a boy and he couldn’t go on any longer. The moment he changed his name to David and decided that he is male, life started making sense. Happiness set in like he had never experienced and, with his parents’ and sister’s support, David has finally found comfort in his life choice as transgender.

  • Transgender Parents

    TRANSGENDER PARENTS is about love, life and kids after a gender transition. It shares the struggles and strengths of several trans women and trans men navigating different stages of parenting: from pregnancy, through raising infants, toddlers and teenagers. Some, who transitioned prior to founding their families, experience fertility clinics and hospital births; others, who transitioned in the presence of their kids work to renegotiate their identity and relationships within their families. All are openly out in the world as trans and as parents in ways that weren’t possible 20 years ago.

    Syrus and Nik, both in their 30s, live in downtown Toronto. We follow their story from Syrus’s pregnancy to the 2nd birthday of young Amélie as they make their way in the world as black gay trans men with a blond blue-eyed daughter.

    Aiyyana is a Haudenosaunee grandmother who was born male and has journeyed through genders and considers herself a transformed woman. An accomplished writer and award-winning theatre artist, Aiyyana is building a home on her childhood reserve along with one of her adult children.

    Originally, from Alberta, Jenna is a 30-year-old trans-mother-to-be who runs an organic farm with her partner near Montreal. We earn about her path to motherhood, and witness the hours following the arrival of her baby.

    Stefonknee is a trans woman of 45 who came out when her 7 children were almost all teenagers. The process of finding herself and going public has been too much for most of her family to bear. She has moved to Toronto from rural Ontario where she is a speaker and activist. We follow her on a visit to her hometown as she tries to heal broken connections.

    Hershel, a Jewish trans man in his late 60s, is a psychotherapist whose son was 19 years old when he transitioned. We witness their loving and at times difficult relationship as both speak candidly about their experiences as parent and child over the last fifteen years.

  • Gay, Straight and Accepted

    Gay, Straight and Accepted

    Gay, Straight & Accepted Life can get confusing for adolescents when they begin to develop sexual attractions. Through the perspective of straight teenagers, we meet students coming to terms with how they feel and dealing with the anxiety of “coming out.” Noel became extremely depressed because she did not know how to deal with being a lesbian. We meet Sam, who is a victim of homophobic harassment. He overcomes the bullying by building a support team. In the end students will realize that sexual orientation should not be isolating.

  • Sex Ed for Grown Ups

    For most of us, sex education ends with that last health class sometime in early high school. Doesn’t it make sense to take some “continuing education” courses during the years when we’re having the most sex? There is no shortage of workshops, lectures, courses and activities available for people who want to expand their knowledge and improve their sex lives. We will highlight some of the more interesting and popular ones out there – Sex and Pilates, Erotic Writing workshops and Burlesque dancing courses to name a few. This program will feature everything from an erotic writing workshop to women only stripper class. This program is recommended for an audience aged 17 and up. May contain information that is considered offensive to some viewers.

  • Top 10 Sexual Archetypes

    The top ten “types” of people we’d like to have sex with and a somewhat Freudian look at what they represent. In keeping with our fun and informative top 10 format we’ll explore the man in uniform, the conservative librarian, the catholic schoolgirl, the best friend, the mother figure, the rebel guy etc… Each gets its own explanation and a psychological examination of what they represent in the bedroom. This program is recommended for an audience aged 17 and up. May contain information that is considered offensive to some viewers.

  • Sexual Satisfaction

    In this episode we’ll meet a California couple that leads a secret life as on-line reviewers for sex toys, and another couple that can’t wait to invite a third person into their bedroom. This program is recommended for an audience aged 17 and up. May contain information that is considered offensive to some viewers.

  • Girls on Top

    Through thousands of years of evolution, women’s bodies adapted to the environment, their hormonal cycles changed in rhythm with the cycles of the moon and engrained women with a concept and awareness of time. It also gave women control over sex. Fast forward to the new millennium when women are going through another evolution. Shows like Sex and the City, women only events known as SUGAR Parties have opened up the doors to a new kind of female sexuality. A “get it now, get it often”, aggressive sexuality where (heterosexual women) explore female only sex. You could say it’s a very “masculinized” female sexuality. Is human sexuality, in general, evolving in some way? Has this always been a part of women’s nature? Or are women throwing in the towel in a case of “If you can’t beat’em, join’em”? This program is recommended for an audience aged 17 and up. May contain information that is considered offensive to some viewers.

  • Sex and Aging

    t’s inevitable. We will all get older, and unless or genitals fall off, chances are we’ll still want to engage them in a sex. Even in our 40’s, (hardly ancient) our bodies are changing, desires shifting and performance perhaps waning. What’s going on physiologically and mentally in our less than youthful selves? And are we fighting nature by trying to keep people’s sex drives as alive as they were in youth? Viagra and treatments like it for women may be fighting the natural demise of our sexual beasts. This isn’t a look at sex in old age, rather sex in middle age. We’ll tell the story of Rick Moore, a man in his late 40’s attempting to get back in the dating scene and meeting with frustration at every turn. We spend the night on a “cougar” cruise where women in the late 30’s and early 40’s attempt to hook-up with younger men, and will visit the Lovecraft store to see what’s new for the older crowd when it comes to pleasure toys. Experts on this show include, world famous TV personality Doctor Ruth, and Actress and Author Suzanne Somers. This program is recommended for an audience aged 17 and up. May contain information that is considered offensive to some viewers.