Melanie Rose is an interior designer who also designs sex rooms for clients. How to Build a Sex Room (Netflix), then, is essentially Changing Rooms for sex people. Various couples (and whatever a throuple with seven people involved is called. A septuple?) tell Rose they would like her to convert a spare room into a sex room, and she obliges, giving them a Queer Eye-style sex-life MOT in the process.
If, like me, you never suspected that a home makeover show could involve so many butt plugs, then welcome to the new wave of sex TV. From Open House to Let’s Make a Love Scene, commissioners are finding innovative new ways to put sex on our screens. Sadly, I have come to realise that I relate most to Alice Levine, who, during one particularly intimate part of her Channel 4 documentary Sex Actually, sat blushing in a corner of the bedroom, sipping water and averting her eyes.
