These are officially the TV shows with the most minutes of sex in them

Ok let’s be real, a lot of TV shows are only good because they contain copious amounts of sex. It’s a good distraction for when there’s literally no plot or not much else to keep you entertained. Don’t get me wrong, not all sex-fuelled shows are bad though, a lot of them are some of the best television we’ve had in years. But which TV shows contain the most sex scenes of them all?

UberKinky has spent time actually finding out. It looked at which shows have the highest minutes of sex scenes in them, and which have the highest percentage of sex scenes for the length of the series itself. Here are the official rankings.

These TV shows contain the most sex scenes overall:

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By number, Californication has the highest amount of sex scenes – with 33. It’s shortly followed by Spartacus: Blood & Sand with 31, Elite on Netflix with 28, Orange Is The New Black with 27, Secret Diary Of A Call Girl with 16, Outlander with 15, Shameless with 14, True Blood also has 14, then Black Sails and Game of Thrones have 12 and Normal People has 10.

Here are the TV shows which have the highest amount of sex scenes, by the exact minutes:

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If you want a minute-by-minute break down of the scenes, then look no further. Topping this chart is Spartacus: Blood & Sand with exactly 79 minutes of sex in it, then Californication has 67 and Normal People has 41. Elite, Orange Is The New Black and Outlander all recorded exactly 39 minutes of sex, then Secret Diary Of A Call Girl has 28, Game of Thrones has 21, True Blood has 19, Shameless has 11 and Black Sails has exactly 10 minutes.

And here are the TV shows with the highest percentage of sex scenes, per the length of the series:

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Californication also tops the table of the series with the highest percentage of sex scenes, per how long the series is – nearly a fifth of the whole series is sex scenes. Next is Spartacus: Blood & Sand with 13 per cent, then Normal People with 12 per cent. Elite has 10 per cent, Orange Is The New Black has just over five per cent, Secret Diary Of A Call Girl has five per cent, Outlander four per cent, Game of Thrones just under four per cent, True Blood three per cent, Shameless two per cent and Black Sails just under two per cent.

Finally, these shows contain the highest average number of sex scenes per episode:

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And finally, these shows have straight up the highest number of sex scenes per episode. Elite on Netflix tops this table with an average of 3.5, then Californication with 2.8, Spartacus: Blood & Sand averages at 2.4 and Orange Is The New Black has 2.1. Then it’s Secret Diary Of A Call Girl with an average of two sex scenes per episode, followed by Black Sails with 1.5. Shameless, True Blood and Game of Thrones all had an average of 1.2 per episode, Outlander has 0.9 and Normal People has 0.8.

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