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No cheap jokes about sex in TV comedy

Actors say key to the success of raunchy comedy Sex Education is how it tackles awkward sex topics with humour and empathy

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In the series Sex Education, a teenager named Otis (Asa Butterfield) is mortified because his mother Jean (Gillian Anderson) is a sex therapist.
But he then ends up becoming his schoolmates' go-to source for sex advice.
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