Friday watch: Sex and Love Around the World
Our guest recommends a documentary series in which journalist Christiane Amanpour explores sex and love in different cultures.
Friday watch: Sex and Love Around the World
It's Friday, which means our favourite evening activity: Netflix and chill. You know what to do, but if you do feel like watching something, our guest suggests the documentary series Sex and Love Around the World.
We're so glad when great women recommend what to read, listen to and watch. She's the kind of person in whom curiosity meets openness and constant movement. She loves running, yoga, dancing, solving hard problems and finding unusual things. Admit it, you hadn't heard of this series either?)
"This is a documentary series in which Christiane Amanpour, an American journalist and CNN's chief international correspondent, explores sex and love in different cultures. Christiane has an interesting background: her father is an Iranian Muslim and her mother is a Christian from England.
Christiane meets ordinary people to talk about loneliness, infidelity, norms, intimacy and romance. She reacts very emotionally to details that are unfamiliar to a Western viewer, and that's endearing. It's also incredibly interesting to listen to candid stories and draw parallels with your own life.
For me, this is first and foremost a feminist story. Christiane is interested in how much sexual freedom women have in Tokyo, Delhi, Beirut, Berlin, Shanghai and Accra (Ghana). I couldn't even imagine how multifaceted sexual culture is: a community of women bikers in Delhi, Tinder in India, shy Japanese girls who adore erotic anime, sexuality in 15th-century Islam, the art of bondage in Berlin."
Sex & Love Around the World
A CNN original series
Christiane Amanpour
