Across the fortnight on Front Row, ten celebrated artists promoted landmark works of art from the last 50 years that have changed our views of the expression and depiction of sexuality.
On 21st September 2007 Mark Lawson chaired a discussion to decide which has been the most influential.
Couples today expect more out of sex and intimacy than ever before, and as we live longer these expectations are growing, yet are often unfulfilled.
Most people encounter sexual difficulties at some point in their life – common disorders include loss of desire in both women and men, erectile dysfunction and inability to attain orgasm in women.
Treatments depend on the cause of the problem and range from medication or surgery to behavioural psychotherapies.
Dr Mark Porter explores this expanding field of medicine.
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Wolfenden Report, a landmark in the history of gay rights, Tom Robinson explores the portrayal of homosexuality in the media.
In the first of this two part series Robinson, who made his name in the seventies with the song Glad To Be Gay, looks back from the late fifties to the early seventies and examines where the media sometimes led and lagged behind the public in its representation of gay people via newspapers, television, books, music and film.
With contributions from A Taste of Honey actor Murray Melvin, broadcaster Paul Gambaccini and author of The Microcosm Maureen Duffy.
When a wife discovers her husband is gay, they are typically left feeling betrayed, confused and isolated. Often there follow revelations of further lies and deceits - which may have spanned years of marriage life.
While husbands will probably start a new chapter in their lives as openly gay men, their wives are frequently left alone, caring for the children of a marriage that for some appears to have been a sham.
Sheila McClennon talks to the married men who've struggled to come to terms with their sexuality – and the wives left to pick up the pieces.
What role has flagellation played in the history of sexuality and what is its place in contemporary culture? How does the whip link medieval religious devotion with modern pornographic imagery?
In Sex and the whip Laurie Taylor discusses the place of the whip in the history of arousal with Niklaus Largier, author of In Praise of the Whip; A Cultural History of Arousal and with Kate Copstick, contributing editor of the Erotic Review.
Mariella Frostrup asks, Should Sex be more about Procreation than Recreation?
She chairs a debate with Zoe Margollis (author of Girl with a One tracked Mind - Diary of a Sex Fiend), Irma Kurtz (Agony Aunt), Dr Glenn Wilson (reader in Personality at Kings College Institute of Psychiatry, and a proponent of fidelity).
Although attitudes towards sexual behaviour have become much more liberal, it seems that many of us are still anxious about our sex lives. The nation’s obsession with sex is putting extra pressure on us to perform well in the bedroom, and to question whether we measure up.
But is there such a thing as a “normal” sex life? Vivienne Parry asks, 'Am I Normal?'
BBC Four's season of programmes teasing out the hidden and often contradictory truths behind the experiences, values and traditions of our lives. Award-winning performances from Michael Sheen and John Hurt bring to life 20th-century gay figures including Kenneth Williams and Quentin Crisp.
Although attitudes towards sexual behaviour have become much more liberal, it seems that many of us are still anxious about our sex lives. The nation’s obsession with sex is putting extra pressure on us to perform well in the bedroom, and to question whether we measure up. 
