TVScope:Seduction: How to get more sex. UTV, 10pm Thursday, December 6th
Seduction: how to get more sex is best described as "Lads Mag" meets the "Boffins".
The series sets out to explore the science of sexual attraction using short words and plenty of saucy visuals.
Within a mere 30 minutes, the first of the new three-part series crammed in four experiments, spoke to umpteen "celebrities" and explored many common myths about attraction.
Take the topic of women's breasts. Asking "Do men prefer better endowed women and if so when is big too big?" the programme took blonde female twins and asked men to rate which they found more attractive.
With both modestly endowed, twin A consistently scored twice as much as her slightly taller sister, twin B.
But when twin B was artificially enhanced in the bra department, she scored incrementally more hits as her breast size increased.
When asked to explain their preference, all but one man claimed it was because she was taller. Which, as the presenter Neil Pearson noted, goes to prove that most men are just big babies who were weaned too early.
When women say that size doesn't matter, it seems that they're not just being polite. When presented with identical male twins dressed in lycra shorts, women consistently preferred the average sized twin's equipment.
And even when one subject was enhanced to such an extent that the producers said they were prevented from showing it on camera for health and safety reasons, it did not increase his score.
So, for the ladies, it seems that more than a handful is definitely a waste.
Spliced with vignettes from experts and celebrities, perhaps the most upfront comment came from Janet Street Porter who declared that she had a policy of always having sex on the first date because "if it wasn't any good, she wasn't going on a second one".
And finally an interesting experiment glanced at the issue of smell and attraction.
Asking three couples to sleep in new T-shirts, participants were asked to smell the clothing to determine which belonged to their partners.
While the majority sniffed correctly, one unfortunate gentleman attributed the scent of a T-shirt to his wife when it had actually been worn by a pig the previous night.
I dare say his limited olfactory powers caused a bit of a stink in that particular household.
The programme was small, well packaged and easy on the eye. So on that basis alone, female viewers would be well advised to tune in for this week's episode.
Review by Marion Kerr, occupational therapist