Older episodes as well as "best-of" episodes are frequently re-aired during late nights on HBO.[5]
| Episode # | Segment name | Segment title | Description |
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| Episode 01 | November 1990[6] |
| "How to Strip (for your man)" | A striptease class taught by LaGioconda (a.k.a. Lisa Suarez). |
| "A Family Business" | A husband and wife strip couple filmed at Big Al's in Peoria, IL. |
| Sex by Telephone | None | A brief segment about phone sex which grossed $400 million last year (1989?). A vast majority of callers are male and earn more than $30,000/yr. The average caller spends $45 for 30 minutes. |
| "Portrait of a Virgin" | A 31-year-old virgin talks about her chaste lifestyle, and how she plans to wait to have sex until she is married. |
| "Homemade Home Video" | A kinky homemade video of a couple jumping into bed filmed by Adam Crown. |
| "Sex for One" | A masturbation class for women taught by Betty Dodson, Ph.D. |
| "An Actress Turns Director" | Erotic films for women directed by Candida Royalle and Femme Productions. |
| Episode 02 |
| "Stripper with a Difference" | Jane Jones strip show and exotic circus includes a 600 lb. Siberian tiger named Qadesh, a Burmese python, and a topless saxophone performance. |
| "Sex Under Glass" | Carol Queen's peep show. |
| "The HOW-TO-MAKE-LOVE Couple" | Married couple Donna and Gary filming Videos for Lovers for the Better Sex Institute. |
| "The Madam and The Prostitute" | Madam Beverly Harrell of the Cottontail Ranch |
| "Annie Sprinkle's Sluts and Goddesses" | Women dressing up in Annie Sprinkle's clothes and acting out slut and goddess fantasies. |
| Episode 03 |
| "Cherokee Sex Workshop" |
| "A Stimulating Collection" |
| "The Honorable Cicciolina" |
| "Mister Madam" |
| "Auntie Maim's House Of Domination" |
| Episode 04 |
| "Annie Sprinkle's One Woman Show" | Annie Sprinkle's show about her sexual evolution from a shy teenager to porn star and exhibitionist. |
| "The Agony & The Ecstasy" | 1991 Miss Nude World pageant organized by Samantha Jones. |
| "Deutschland's Top Quiz Show" | German game show called Tutti Frutti where contestants removed various items of clothing. |
| "Tell Me Your Fantasy" | Live tele-fantasy New York public access show called Voyeurvision hosted by Lynn Muscarella. |
| "Riding the Orgasmic Wave" | Oceanic Tantra workshop where the couples undulate like dolphins through the waters of Maui. |
| Episode 05 | A sex-shop entrepreneur; and a stripper who moonlights as a boxer. August 5, 1993 |
| "Introducing Venus De Light" | Lynn Chase's exotic burlesque dance and animal show. She boxes for stress relief. |
| "Of Human Bondage" | Frank and Ona Zee show home spanking and bondage play. |
| "Doctor/Director Frank Sommers M.D." | Dr Frank Sommers, M.D. makes short sex education films for women. |
| "Susanne Bartsch's Girls Girls Girls" | Susanne Bartsch throws a drag queen show (including RuPaul). |
| "Sex Shop Granny" | Beate Uhse talks about her well-known German sex store. |
| Episode 06 (1993) | August 5, 1993 |
| "Cyber-Sex Game" | Mike Saenz creates an early adult interactive video games called Virtual Valerie. |
| "The Royal Sex Maniacs' Ball" | Tuppy Owens creates the anything goes Sex Maniacs Ball to raise funds for disabled people. It includes an early view of virtual reality sex. |
| "A Filmmaker's Fetish Fantasy" | Eric Kroll takes fetish photos of 3 women wearing girdles. |
| "Adam's Whips & Gillian's Toys" | A couple makes sensual whips and toys. |
| "Pleasure Bus of Brazil" | An exotic play called Soltando a Franga by Sady Cinema which loosely translates to "Release the Inhibitions". The driver is Sady Baby (a.k.a. Sady Plauth) an infamous actor and filmmaker |
| Episode 07 (1993) | November 11, 1993 |
| "Naked City" | Photographer takes quirky fine art black-and-white nudes of his friends on the streets of New York. |
| "For Women Only" | Michelle's XXX Revue is a Los Angeles lesbian and bisexual strip club founded by promoter Michelle Levy. |
| "From Russia With Love" | Russian men's magazine Andrei[sp]. |
| "Libido" | The couple behind Libido The Journal of Sex and Sensibility shoot a nude layout for the magazine. |
| "The Master of Non-Ejaculation" | A virile Chinese senior citizen. |
| Episode 08 |
| "Moscow's School of Striptizi" | Alla Maximova (Алла Максимова) striptease school for the "new" Russian woman |
| "Members Only" | Male sexual seminar, men only |
| "Lady & Lord K of RIO" | Sexy male and female 'rock stars' in Rio perform in the nude "they practice what they preach" |
| "How to read a Dirty Movie" | Porn critic and sex educator Susie Bright gives seminar on 'how to read a dirty movie' |
| Exotic Erotic Ball | "The Exotic Erotic Ball" | Exotic Erotic Ball was held up through 2009 at various locations throughout California; the 2010 ball was cancelled the day before the show, and no ball was scheduled in 2011 |
| Episode 09 | August 13, 1994 |
| Late Night Swedish TV show | "A Thousand and one Nights with Ylva" | Ylva Maria Thompson's wild late night Swedish TV show. "Tusen & en natt" |
| "Body, Heart and Soul" | 5 day Love, Sex and Sensuality workshop in Hawaii with Alan Lowen |
| Drag King Show | "Girls will be Boys" | Drag king show mixed with strip show, to show how fluid sexuality is. |
| Making adult audio CDs | "CYBORGASM The Making of a XXX-rated CD" | An erotic party that is recorded to create an adult audio CD Lisa Palac and M. Gantt |
| Mr Nude Universe | "Bare & Bold" |
| Episode 10 |
| "Pins & Needles" |
| "Paris After Dark" |
| "Interactive Fantasies" |
| "Cross Dress For Success" |
| "Valeria: Queen Of Carnival" |
| Episode 11 |
| "Call-In Love Radio" |
| "The Ultimate Orgasm" |
| "Doris Does Dungeons" |
| "Pajama Party Live (Behind The Scenes)" |
| "London's Rubber Ball" |
| Episode 12 |
| "Getting Off On-Line" |
| "The Black Orchid" |
| "Truck Stop On Highway 93" |
| "Video Erotique Avec Laetitia" |
| "Taking Care Of Business" |
| Episode 13 |
| "Electric Sex With Dante Amore" |
| "Jocelyn Taylor's Lesbian Erotica" |
| "Whiplash" |
| "A Tight Squeeze" |
| "Golden Oldies" |
| Episode 14 | "Wild Cards Special" | Annie Sprinkle with Lily Braindrop Borana, Jennifer Einstein, Dominique D'Anthony, Danielle Willis & Jennifer Blowdryer |
| Episode 15 |
| "Heather Takes Off" |
| "Homemade Love Movies" |
| "Hot Shots In Rio" |
| "Folsom Street Fair" |
| "A Family Tradition" |
| Episode 16 |
| "Miss Black Nude" |
| "For Swingers Only" |
| "Passion Food" |
| "Supermarket Du Sex" |
| Episode 17 | Jan. 14, 1997 |
| "Nudes-A-Poppin'" |
| "Out To Africa With Photographer Uwe Ommer" |
| "Fun House" |
| "Yoyogi-San Master Of Orgasm" |
| Episode 18 | March 14, 1997 |
| "Wild Anna Malle" |
| "Through The Looking Glass" |
| "Secrets Of Nina's Boudoir" |
| "Erotic Art Auction" |
| Episode 19 | Feb. 7, 1998 |
| Mud Play | "Down 'N Dirty" | A group gets together to play in the mud in the desert. |
| Jamaican Beat | "Miss Black nude: Going Tropical" | Club 55 in Washington DC (closed in 2008) and Hedonism II sponsored beauty pageant for black women. |
| Fantasies | "Male-Order Fantasies" |
| Decadence | "Doktor Hirschfeld's Museum Of Sexologoy" |
| Episode 20 | May 2, 1998 |
| Miss Nude World | "The Barest In The Land" | Miss nude world 1998 exotic dancer competition at the "pink pony club" in Atlanta GA. Won by "Holly Montana" |
| "Ladies' Night" | Monthly Male exotic dancer show in Philadelphia PA. Arranged by Lady Simzie |
| Love without Limits | "Polyamory" | Deborah Annapol workshop on polyamory and relationships. |
| Angels and Demons exhibition | "Naked Art" | a Nude art exhibition in New York City 'Natasha VonRosenchilde' is the artist. |
| Episode 21 | Sept. 5, 1998 |
| Private Parts | "The Feel of Real" | The making of realistic sex toys from capture of porn stars' "parts" to manufacturing |
| Voyeurism | "Voyeur's Vacation" | Oakland, CA's Edgewater West Hotel (now closed) |
| Old-Fashioned Erotica | "Doris Wishman: Queen of Sexploitation" |
| Titillating Art | "An Art Gallery Exhibition(ist)" | the production of a lesbianism-themed art exhibition called "Women Loving Women," which included live lesbian sex performances by porn star Missy and other women in the gallery, with some of the female patrons participating |
| Episode 22 | Feb. 20, 1999 |
| Dolls | "Real Dolls" | Making of and playing with realistic ($6,000) Female Love Dolls from realdolls.com |
| Tantric Sex | "Tantric Sex: Riding the Orgasm" | workshop on full-body orgasms |
| Dutch Swingers | "Fun 4 Two" | European Sex Club for Couples, Holland farmhouse where couples live out their fantasies |
| Sacred Vows | "Exotic Erotic Wedding" | Performers '13' and 'Princess' of the 'Impotent Sea Snakes' get married at San Francisco's Exotic Erotic Ball |
| Episode 23 | May 8, 1999 |
| arousing African-American dancers |
| a stimulating sex club in Paris |
| an adult-film star-turned-performance artist |
| Episode 24 | February 26, 2000 |
| Different Strokes | "How to please a penis" | Suburban housewives learn new oral and tactile techniques at a home party |
| Dirty Words | "Punany Poets" | Exotic Performers read erotic poetry they've written as part of their show |
| Footsies | "Tootsie Roles" | Foot fetishists |
| Bon Apetit! | "Sploshing" | British specialty that features arousal by playing in a variety of sloppy foods. |
| Episode 25 | June 17, 2000 |
| Strap Ons | "Strut Your Strap On" | featuring Tristan Taormino |
| Flirt Fest | "Texas Flirt Fest" |
| Erotic Cabaret | "Blue Angel Cabaret" |
| Pleasure Party | "Dr. Suzy's Speakeasy" | featuring Susan Block |
| Episode 26 | Lessons in Love & Lust | April 7, 2001 |
| Love Licks | "Clit Tricks" | Cunnilingus workshop |
| Swing Fest | "Swingstock " | Swingstock '99{{snd}} Swingers camping convention in Rural Minnesota |
| Tropical Tease | "how to be Miss Florida" | Florida Exotic Dancer competition |
| Tight Squeeze | "Latex Sex" | The joys of latex{{snd}} from paint-on liquid latex to being vacuum sealed between sheets of latex |
| Episode 27 | Slippery when Wet |
| Deep Sex | "Underwater Erotica" |
| Peek-a-boo | "Voyeur Dorm" | Nine college girls live in a house filled with 55 cameras |
| Long Licks | "Lick It" | Exotic Dancer with very long tongue |
| Hot Toys | "Sex Odyssey" | Sex toys made of Pyrex |
| Episode 28 | Bedroom Tricks & Treats |
| Giddyup! | "Ride Pony Ride" | Women who enjoy playing as horses |
| Naked Shakespeare | "Much Ado about Nothing" | Exotic dancers get around local laws by performing MacBeth in the nude |
| Sex Doll | "Boy Toy" | Making of and playing with realistic (US$6,000) Male Love Dolls from realdolls.com |
| Teasing 101 | "Bring Back Burlesque" | Modern exotic dancers learn the fine art of classic burlesque dancers |
| Episode 29 | Let it all hang out | April 6, 2002 |
| Slippery Sports | "Santa Fe Wrestling Asylum" | Oil wrestling |
| Dick Tricks | "Penis Puppeteers" | Off-Broadway show: Puppetry of the Penis |
| Bareback Thrills | "Ms Nude Great Plains" | Exotic Dancer Competition that includes nude horseback riding in Topeka, Kansas |
| Nude Twists | "Secrets of the Kama Sutra" | Couples' Kama Sutra workshop |
| Episode 30 | Down & Dirty |
| Hi-Tech | "Sex Machines.cum" | Violet wand and Sybian |
| Erotic Awards | "London's Erotic Oscars" | Erotic Oscars |
| Dirty Movies | "Lights, Camera, Fantasy!" | Company that provides professional video services for couples that wish to act out their fantasy |
| Kinky Circus | "Cirque du Sex" |
| Episode 31 | Am I good in bed? |
| Anal 101 | "Bottoms up" | featuring Tristan Taormino |
| Punk Pinups | "The Suicide Girls" | featuring SuicideGirls |
| Latin Lovers | "Ay! Papi Chulo! Hot Latin Daddy Revue" |
| Sex Party | "Sexual Soiree" |
| Size Matters | A Real Sex Xtra | Segments from past specials (2001) |
| Pimp 'n Ho Costume Ball | Themed erotic Halloween party in Vegas |
| Masturbation Club | "Club Relate", the only heterosexual masturbation club in America |
| Ladies' Night | Lady Simzie hosts a monthly show of "supersized" male exotic dancers in Philadelphia, and manages for "The Immortal TMs" (True Men). |
| Real Dolls | A tour through Abyss Creations' studio where Real Dolls are made. |
| Strut Your Strap-On | Lesbian "girls only" parties and the toys they use. |
| Episode 33 | Stocks Down, Sex Up [final episode] | Produced in late 2009, this almost standalone episode looks at how sex workers are adjusting during the economic downturn of the year before. |
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2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/real-sex/ |title=Real Sex|publisher=TV.com|date=2012-12-19|accessdate=2013-10-06}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TV2BK775lM3B54 |title=HBO Real Sex|publisher=Movieweb.com|date= |accessdate=2013-10-06}}
4. ^The Essential HBO Reader, Gary R. Edgerton and Jeffrey P. Jones, University Press of Kentucky, July 2013
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/best_of_real_sex/ |title=Best of Real Sex |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |date=1970-01-01 |accessdate=2013-10-06}}
6. ^Masturbation, Nudists, and Street Interviews: An Oral History of HBO's Real Sex (Vulture July 30, 2013)