Strange Sex special on Discovery Health Channel

November 4, 9:33 PMCable TV ExaminerChristine Nyholm

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Michele Spinak Discovery Health

Discovery Health is explores the puzzling and sometimes shocking world of sexual anomalies in Strange Sex, premiering on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 10 PM ET/PT. The hour long special explores sexual issues that are usually kept private.

Four individuals are profiled as they break their silence to discuss their mysterious and debilitating sexual condition. The participants are helped to get past their natural embarrassment with the guidance of leading researchers and counselors. Their experiences may help to educate viewers and to help others deal with their sexual issues.

Strange Sex gets past the shame and embarrassment associated with sexual issues to candidly explore the intricacies, impact and treatment of each disorder.

Strange Sex Cases:

• Sex Allergy: After getting married, a young couple begins having unprotected sex-but the wife immediately experiences an extremely painful reaction to lovemaking. Their confusion is compounded when they are unable to become pregnant-until they learn that she is suffering from rare and seemingly unimaginable sexual abnormality.
• Sex Addiction: A woman recounts her uncontrollable pursuit of sexual pleasure and her frightening battle with sexual compulsivity disorder.
• Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder: Since childhood, a woman has suffered in silence from unrelenting episodes of sexual arousal, which can only be temporarily abated by self-stimulation. After finally being diagnosed, she and her doctor seek to alleviate the symptoms of the debilitating and consuming affliction that her physician describes as "Tourette's syndrome of the genitals."
• Sexomnia: A woman's boyfriend suspects that she may have unknowingly had sex with her ex-husband. Stunned, she learns that she suffers from sexomnia-a condition in which she has sex while sleeping, and wakes up with no recollection of her actions.

STRANGE SEX is produced for Discovery Health by Sirens Media. For Discovery Health, Alon Orstein is executive producer and for Sirens Media, Valerie Haselton is executive producer.