Blurring The Boundaries

TV viewers got an eyeful with their breakfast and coffee, reports today's Daily Mail. This Morning blurred the boundaries of pre-cocktail hour conversation when they discussed the results of a sex survey on the show. Phillip Schofield and stand-in host Ruth Langsford didn't appear to know where to look when sex therapist Jo Hemmings and Dr Pixie McKenna showed up with adult toys on the ITV program to chat about spicing things up in the bedroom.

The results of the network's sex survey 2011, a follow-up from last year, were shown to a soundtrack of Sexual Healing and a breathy voice over. Schofield stumbled over his words while discussing one figure - that 20 per cent of male respondents to the survey admit to faking an orgasm. As they watched one couple demonstrating a racy sexual position, he quipped: 'Glad she's kept her stockings on, there's only so far we're allowed to go.' At one point another couple perched on a bed with handcuffs, a feather boa and blindfold, in a demonstration about role play in the bedroom.


The Mail insists some viewers may think that the program had overstepped the line for a morning show as they chatted animatedly about whether or not cyber sex is considered cheating. Results from the risqué survey, of which 88 per cent of respondents were female and 12 per cent were male, showed that 64 per cent of women believe that cyber sex does count as infidelity. 52 per cent of respondents have been cheated on, while 42 per cent of men admit to fantasising about other partners in bed.

Phillip Schofield turned the tables on Dr Pixie McKenna when she chatted about infidelity, making her blush when he asked if she was a victim of a cheating partner. It was his turn to get a little hot under the collar, though, as they discussed the statistics that 68 per cent of women have used sex toys, while 25 per cent of men use pornography 'most days.'