France Télévisions launches "Sexotuto", a sex education web series for teens

How to put on a condom?

What is revenge porn?

How to kiss well?

These are some of the questions that

, the web series that Lumni launches on Thursday,

will answer 

.

France Télévisions' educational platform for young people will eventually offer 38 funny and educational videos of 5 minutes, to educate adolescents and preadolescents in love and sexuality.

A program where adults can also (re) learn certain things.

Each of the episodes has been validated by a committee of experts, and the web series is not encumbered with any taboos. 

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"We did what we would have liked to find when we were kids"

This was also an essential point for the producer and creator of

 Maitena Biraben.

"Sexuality should be a place of freedom, creativity and inventiveness. But, as it is a taboo subject in education, in society and in religion, it becomes a place of silence," he regrets -she.

"While we all have 1,000 questions and we all want to understand!"

Sextotuto

therefore wanted to liberate sex education, emphasizing the notions of self-understanding and mutual respect.

"We wanted to give young people the means to understand the functioning of their body and understand what interaction with others involves in terms of self-respect, respect for others and consent", explains Maitena Biraben. .

"We did what we would have liked to find when we were kids."

Show nudity, but nudity that looks like us

Each video features Ambre and Eddy, two actors who play two friends.

They are the ones who answer the questions, spotted on Internet forums by the series team.

Ambre and Eddy are sometimes helped by "Tout nus", male and female characters in flesh and blood, entirely naked and with hidden faces.

An educational choice for the producer of 

.

"As we are in a world of images and we are in the 21st century, our kids have access to pornographic films and nudity. So we might as well show them nudity, but nudity that resembles us", specifies she does.

"Naked bodies not retouched, we hardly see them today," observes Maitena Biraben.

"You have to show them that the bodies are diverse. So in the series you see different bodies, black, white, Asian, with shapes, big, small, asymmetrical breasts ... We go so far as to show what we call nicely the genitals, that is to say that we show male and female sexes. For the female sexes, this is a first. "

The

web series 

found from this Thursday on Lumni.fr and on the educational platform's YouTube channel.