Christiane Amanpour: Sex und Liebe in Aller Welt

Yes we know you find it weird that people do this and this, it's the nth time you repeat it. For a show that aims to understand objectively how societies deal with those subjects it ended up insisting a lot on the weirdness of non-US-centric lifestyles. Also, I get the idea of mainly interviewing women, especially in societies were men have more power in women's love life, it lets them talk more freely. But then the show takes its sweet time showing only queer men are good people and it feels like a Twitter feed. I can remember in the episode about Japan when a girl keeps saying she's fine with her couple not really having sex but they insist for several minutes on "that's not normal!!". Weird. As expected, it's a Netflix show with all the Netflix (anti-)values it carries and the main ideas that stick are that all around the world men are responsible for bad sex and that you have to behave like in New York if you're a civilized human being.

For short, expect a cliché romcom about women talking about their last orgasms more that a documentary.

The subject sounded quite cool to me: talking in an open manner about different ways to look at sex and intimacy, depending on cultural differences. However, the interviewer seems uncomfortable with her own subject. Every time someone says a thing about sex, she reacts like it is weird or shocking. Open means that someone can ask questions or give answers without fear of judgement by others. But, by her facial expressions, she shows that she does judge, making us judge as well.

Based on the pilot.

The program itself is a bit of a cliche, these subjects have been covered hundreds of times. Especially Japan is a place where many foreigners investigate and report on the cultural and sexual extremities. That was a poor choice for a starting point.

The conversations are quite prude and lack depth. Maybe CNN limits what is acceptable? Overall the show is okay, and has potential but certainly not peaked my interest.

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I just don't want to talk about sex with Amanpour. No sir! That's the exact feeling a teenager gets when not his mother but his grandmother wants to talk about sex......... that experience is feels uncomfortable and unnatural, so does Amanpour talking about sex. Wrong person for the job.

Don't see why people don't like the woman host. She's asking questions and listening to the feedback from the people she's interacting with. This is a very informative show that I would recommend if you want to learn new things about these cultures that you may have had a stereotype about before.

I loved this documentary so much because you can understand the people, culture and everything about a country. I wish to see more cities & countries. I really enjoyed with Beirut during I was watching. A little sad also of course. Worth watching documentary. Amanpour is a great personality and she gives details with objective perspective.