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With her home renovations focused on spanking benches and love swings, ‘the Mary Poppins of sex’ gently urges couples to explore themselves. The results are surprisingly heartwarmingMelanie 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. Continue reading...