What is Sex Anyway?

In the opening episode of the series, Clare and Janet dive straight into one of the biggest questions of all: what is sex anyway?

Drawing on years of experience as sex and relationship therapists, they explore why we have sex, what it means to different people and how our early beliefs, cultural messages and personal histories shape the way we understand intimacy. From “proper sex” myths to the pressure to be “normal”, they unpack the expectations that so often fuel anxiety, misunderstanding and relationship conflict.

Clare and Janet also talk openly about communication, mismatched desires, pleasure, fantasy, solo sex, and the many ways people connect physically and emotionally. They challenge the idea that sex has a single definition - instead encouraging listeners to think about what sex means to them, at different stages of life and in different contexts.

This first episode sets up the series with a simple but powerful idea: there’s no “right way” to do sex - only the way that’s true to you.