''Sexcetera'' is an

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airing on

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, focused on

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, that was broadcast from 1998 until 2005. ''Sexcetera'' ran for more than 106

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s. By the time the program went off the air in 2005, it had become one of Playboy TV's longest-running shows. ''Sexcetera'' was previously repeated from time to time on Real Lives, Pick,

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and

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in the United Kingdom,

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in the Netherlands, TV5 in Finland and

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in Italy. The show featured four to five

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s per one-hour episode. Filmed throughout the world, but primarily in the

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, the reports generally covered sexual fetishes,

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expos and gatherings, current

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trends,

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s, porn celebrities and tips for couples.

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presented their stories in a

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style; female correspondents often appeared in the nude. As befitting its subject matter, the series is sexually explicit, with unsimulated sexual activity shown from time to time, with increasing explicitness as the series went on.

Reporters

* Valerie Baber * Kara Blanc * Susannah Breslin * Hoyt Christopher * Ralph Garman * Frank Gianotti * Lauren Hays * Asante Jones * Andrea Lowell *

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* Scott Potasnik * Kira Reed

References

External links

* 1998 American television series debuts 2005 American television series endings Erotic television series Nudity in television Television series by Playboy Enterprises Playboy TV original programming Playboy {{US-nonfiction-tv-prog-stub