Sex: How It Works Page #10

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to react to it.

NARRATOR:
HIV attacks

our immune system.

If left untreated the virus

will destroy our body's ability

to fight off infection; a

condition known as AIDS.

To date over one million

Americans have contracted AIDS.

But thanks to powerful

anti-viral drugs,

it's no longer the certain

death sentence it once was.

DOCTOR:
When we first measured

your virus level in March,

it was 55,000 viruses per

cc of blood, and last month,

as expected, after three months

of your medication your virus

levels dropped quite a bit

and they're down to 93 copies.

So, I anticipate that this

month we shall see no virus,

detectable by this

method anyways.

BRYAN:
I hope so, yeah.

BOYFRIEND:
Do you want to

put some onions in there?

BRYAN:
Go for it. Do you wanna

do that while I get

the Zucchini going?

BOYFRIEND:
Yeah.

NARRATOR:
For

Brian, life goes on.

He has a new partner, Travis,

who is also HIV positive.

BRYAN:
There's always

that type of thing, like,

how is my partner going to

respond when they find out

I'm HIV positive?

Are they not gonna wanna

be with me anymore?

I mean, we dealt with that

even before we met each other,

we just knew it was

going to be a non-issue.

TRAVIS:
Right.

We're gonna make it.

NARRATOR:
In Texas, Tiffany and

Ryan's two-year wait to have sex

is almost over.

TIFFANY:
I'm excited;

I'm really excited.

There's already, you know,

Ryan can't find his tie but

that's okay.

But everything else is

like gorgeous I mean,

the setup is beautiful; I walked

up and I just almost started

crying.

I couldn't have asked for better

weather, so, I'm really excited

RYAN:
I'm pretty nervous;

I don't really feel like

I know what's

going on right now.

Um, things are kind

of moving fast.

NARRATOR:
Waiting until they are

married to have sex is a gamble,

as sexual dissatisfaction is one

of the main reasons for divorce.

In just a few hours Tiffany

and Ryan will discover

just how sexually compatible

they really are...

It's Ryan and

Tiffany's wedding day.

In just a few hours they're

going to have sex for

the first time.

MINISTER:
We are gathered here,

in the sight of God and these

witnesses, you; the closest

friends and family of Ryan

and Tiffany.

FRIEND:
It is God that ordained

the man and his wife to both be

naked and not ashamed,

but that's later.

MINISTER:
By the

power vested in me,

by God and the great

state of Texas,

I pronounce you man and wife.

Ryan you may kiss your bride.

FRIEND:
Well I'm pretty

sure she's really excited,

I'm sure because we've talked

about it over and over and over

and over again.

I mean she's got all the advice

from everybody around her

so she'll take it from there.

She's ready!

The couple of the century,

Mr and Mrs Ryan Butterfras!

TIFFANY:
With me, being a

virgin there are some things

that I just won't know

until we have sex,

but I'm not you know stupid,

everyone knows how sex works.

FRIEND:
Kiss for the camera!

TIFFANY:
More than being nervous

I am very excited to have a

deeper connection and, you know,

it's a joy to be able to walk

into this together and

say, Hey, you know,

now we can be completely

vulnerable together and

know each other to the fullest.

I'm really excited, I'm ready.

TIFFANY:
The wedding night was

actually I would say better

than I expected.

We drove back to the hotel

and everything went smoothly.

RYAN:
Yeah. No speeding

tickets on the way to the hotel,

she had to tell me to

slow down several times.

TIFFANY:
It was actually

a really great experience,

it was the best, I mean better

than I could have asked for

a first experience with sex.

RYAN:
It doesn't feel like to me

like it's the same thing every

time, it feels like it's a

whole different new experience,

every time.

There's always

that kind of like,

sometimes I'll have an off day,

other times I won't, you know,

and vice versa so I don't

know if that means...

TIFFANY:
That

hasn't happened yet!

RYAN:
Well I appreciate that.

TIFFANY:
I'm really enjoying it!

RYAN:
I'm blushing now.

NARRATOR:
Sex may be fun, but

let's not forget it does have

a serious purpose.

Carl and April are soon

to have their first baby.

CARL:
It feels good

to be out, doesn't it?

APRIL:
Yeah, it feels like ages.

CARL:
It's just the fact that

in the next couple of weeks,

you know, there's going to

be a little kid in my arms,

you know what I mean?

It's just unbelievable,

it really is.

NARRATOR:
Although around a

quarter million babies are born

every day, actually getting

somebody pregnant is

surprisingly tricky.

Of the hundreds of millions

of sperm that make it into

the vagina almost all

are killed instantly.

The few thousand that do survive

are drawn by heat and chemicals

to the fallopian tubes.

The closer to the egg they

get, the faster the sperm swim.

It's a race against time.

Too slow and they'll either be

destroyed by the woman's immune

system or run out of energy.

Only about a dozen sperm will

make it anywhere near the egg,

of which one, the strongest,

will penetrate it,

creating a new life.

APRIL:
The baby

moves quite a lot,

I get a few little kicks

or or even hiccups actually.

It's stopped now.

NARRATOR:
Our sexual urges are

so great that even when a female

is pregnant, we still

want to have intercourse.

MALE 1:
When my partner was

pregnant she was definitely

more sexually active

than... at... before.

I believe her hormones just

kicked in and she was like

super-super

all the time

GIRL 1:
I think you

get really horny, um,

while you're pregnant.

No, from the hormones

I'm not joking,

I couldn't get enough of it,

but now I'm like starting

to slow down.

Now I'm like, you know,

in the position and like,

trying to like, find the angles

of like how... how we're going

to do it and stuff like that

gets a little bit, you know,

tricky and you gotta

just be creative.

GIRL 2:
In my second trimester I

was the horniest I've ever been

in my life, and then in the

third trimester you're just

so huge and uncomfortable you

really just kind of get through

the day and kind of float

in a pool if you can.

APRIL:
Yeah, my sex drive

definitely went up for a while.

NARRATOR:
The surge of hormones

during pregnancy can increase

blood flow to the pelvic area

and enhance vaginal lubrication.

Intensifying the feelings of

sexual arousal and pleasure.

But the changes in a woman's

body shape can cause problems.

CARL:
She was on top and she

slipped and I could feel the

bump hit me in the stomach, it

was like proper freaked me out.

And that's- that's what I

was kinda thinking, you know,

'cause if the bump gets

some impact, you know,

it will have an effect on the

baby, you know what I mean,

and it was just...

APRIL:
You're limited

to what you can do,

so it kind of takes the

fun out of it a little bit.

I'm gonna put this on here.

NARRATOR:
Studies suggest a

man's sex drive drops around

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