LONDON British television last week went where it had never gonebefore - inside a woman's body to film an orgasm.
Little was left to the imagination during the BBC documentaryseries "The Human Animal: The Biology of Love," which studied andrecorded sexual behavior.
The six-episode documentary will have a U.S. run in January onthe Discovery Channel, which will present the orgasm episode on SuperBowl Sunday.
"Love is just a biological mechanism with a specific function,"said British ethologist Desmond Morris, host of the series.
Morris described humans as "the sexiest primates alive" anddemonstrated his theory with a scientific analysis of human sexualhabits from courtship to coitus.
The footage of the female orgasm was taken by a ballpointpen-sized camera fitted to an endoscopea flexible device made oflight-transmitting fibers - inserted inside the woman's vagina - andby a tiny camera on her partner's penis.
After the moment of orgasm, contractions helped to dip themouth of the woman's uterus repeatedly into a sperm pool deposited bythe male. "In this way (it) increases the chances of fertilization,"explained Morris, best known for a controversial best seller, TheNaked Ape.
But viewers looking for a thrill were disappointed. "Thesesequences of basic biology are to romance what the bagpipes are tothe lullaby," said one reviewer.
Even the married couple who made love three times a day forthree weeks for the documentary caused some controversy when theytold a newspaper that some of the scenes were not real. "The onlything that wasn't faked was the orgasm," Wendy Duffield, 31, told theSun newspaper.
The BBC defended the series. "The scenes of the couple makinglove are entirely genuine and the orgasm filmed from inside wasgenuine," a spokeswoman said.
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