How Sex Changed the World

How Sex Changed the World is a documentary series exploring how sex has changed history: from Ghengis Khan using it to expand the Mongol Empire to the survival of harems for thousands of years and even how Hoover used it to blackmail top level politicians.

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Status

Canceled

Original Name

How Sex Changed the World

First Air Date

April 20, 2013

Last Air Date

June 29, 2013

Seasons

Episodes

Language

English

Production Companies

Asylum Entertainment

Networks

History

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These are the surprising stories behind how scientists, the government and even the judicial system have harnessed sex to change world history: from covert experimental CIA orgies to the Middle Ages' "honest woman" test to verify bedroom activity and even the "cure" for female hysteria.

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