Netflix's Sex Education Spins Awkward Sex Conversations Into A Booming Business

Going back to school immediately following the holiday break can be hard, nevertheless maybe it could be easier if going back to school meant getting paid to give your peers sex opinions. Let yourself to dive into that fantasy with Netflix's upcoming show, Sex Education.


The coming-of-age series stars Asa Butterfield as Otis Milburn, an inexperienced high schooler/reluctant teen sexpert thanks to his inquisitive, oversharing sex therapist mother, Jean (played by Gillian Anderson), who casually says cringeworthy things like, "I've found you're pretending to masturbate, and I was wondering in the event you wanted to talk about it."


Any time his best friend Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) and bad-girl Maeve (Emma Mackey) recognize the social status and cash Otis's unique specialty can bring them, they team up to open a underground sex therapy clinic and start advising their fellow classmates — which, obviously, leads Otis to revelations of his own. Check out the trailer below.


Through Otis's sessions, the eight-episode dramedy tackles conversations about sex, identity, love, and other trials and tribulations that come with growing up. Sex Education hits Netflix on January 11.