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Loved this series, great script great acting and dealt with such a sensitive topic with delicacy. This series dealt with sexual problems from addiction to harrassment. It was interesting to learn about the practise of upskirting and lack of understanding of consent. I'd watched a documentary about the experience of a Japanese journalist Shiori Ito who had been raped and her campaign to improve things in Japan which some of those topics were covered here in slightly different format. In this series Shimotori Ichito is a sex therapist at Shimotori Clinic and some of the issues raised in the documentary I watched were shown in this series in a very human way: explaining consent etc... The series is very short only 7 episodes where we meet some of his patients and how he helps them overcome their sexual problems - even his mentor had to be 're-educated' about his own behaviour towards a junior female colleague. I'd never seen the actor who played the ML nor indeed the actress who played the FL in anything before but loved their nuanced acting and will definitely try and find some of their other works... I found all roles were wonderfully played by the actors even if there were two who were repulsive: the tabloid journalist (which we never found out incidentally how his wife got on after her therapy sessions with Shimotori) and the ML's father (barbaric is the only word I'd use for his behaviour).. The series was thought-provoking, educational, non-judgemental but clearly showing how a lack of education and communication can have serious impacts on people's sex lives.