You don’t expect to feel moved by a programme called Planet Sex, but there are moments in the new BBC docuseries (fronted by supermodel Cara Delevingne) which genuinely brought a tear to my eye. Each of the six episodes — the series is a combined effort with US streaming giant Hulu — deals with a different facet of sex and sexuality in the modern age: from queer identities to porn to the roles of love and monogamy. And as the series progresses we are treated to Delevingne on more likeable and vulnerable form than in any cinematic turn I’ve ever seen from her.
Much has already been written about the first episode — which looks at female pleasure and the orgasm gap. In the opening scenes Delevingne attends a masturbation workshop (“it’s the bravest thing I’ve ever done,” she tells us — and as she lays in a circle with a group of other women, about to attempt a masturbation technique called ‘revving the engine’, you absolutely believe her).
