A new television show will feature couples having sex in a sound-proofed box in a television studio with audience and then being interviewed about it afterwards.
Three couples, two straight and one gay, will take turns to step into the opaque box before being quizzed about what they got up to by host Mariella Frostrup and a panel of sex experts.
Makers of the show, called Sex Box, claim that the programme, which will air on Channel 4, is intended to 'reclaim sex from pornography'.
Frostrup, 50, said she hoped the show would spark a 'mature, intelligent discussion about sex in Britain today.
'I approached it with great trepidation and a degree of scepticism, particularly about why we needed a box, but ultimately I think it was a really, really mature - surprisingly for television - look at a subject we've allowed to proliferate in its worst manifestations and refuse to confront,' she said.
'The sex we see on screen, in magazines and increasingly online bears little relation to the real experiences of real people - this will be a frank conversation about an essential element in all our lives.'
The first couple to use the 'sex box' for the pre-recorded, hour-long show, which will air on October 7, is 20-somethings Rachel and Dean. They will be followed by Matt and John, who are in a long-term relationship, and childhood sweethearts Lynette and Des.
The couples, whose time in the box will not be filmed, will speak to a panel including television sex expert Tracey Cox, relationship expert Dan Savage, and psychotherapist and author Phillip Hodson.
Cox said: 'The Box itself is a unique way to get peoples' attention and to recognise that sex is a normal part of all our lives and something we need to be talking about openly and honestly.'
The programme is part of a season called Campaign For Real Sex which begins on September 30 with a show called Porn On The Teenage Brain, an examination of pornography by former lads' mag editor Martin Daubney.
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