All week I seemed to be either accidentally or otherwise landing on channels showing the most bizarre programmes – there were
the Bulging Brides (I thought they were shotgun weddings) about women trying to lose weight before their big day and there was the One Year Itch, also on Channel 4 on Tuesday about young couples falling apart after one year of wedded bliss or misery in these cases. They should try 29 years!

But the most bizarre programme I watched all week was called 100 Orgasms a Day on Sky 1 where I tuned in thinking I might learn a thing or two. I did, but not what I wanted.

This was about three women in the US (where else!) who suffered from a syndrome called Persistent Sexual Arousal. Apparently it’s quite uncomfortable bordering on painful and a real nuisance involving the women having to ‘look after’ themselves for relief, though one of the women is still quite happy using her husband for that.

One woman’s marriage ended because she was too embarrassed to tell him about the rare enough condition but here she was telling
the world on TV.

The third woman has suffered this through her whole ten year marriage but they cope by sleeping separately which means the husband has to share the king size bed with their eight years old son to give her privacy to ‘look after’ herself.

There is surgery but this is very expensive in the US and there are other alternative options which only give temporary relief. I was gobsmacked watching it. I thought I had heard it all, but how wrong I was. . .

There is no way I want the hypochondriac hidden inside being awakened for this condition. It may sound like every man’s dream condition – in a woman that is – but in reality it’s the opposite that happens, with women shunning male contact.

The programme did little to explain the medical reason behind the condition, which left me wondering at the end if it was a spoof. It kept me watching all right, which is the goal of all programme makers no matter what the subject.

All I can say is that I feel I have had a glut of bizarre TV and that for the next few months I am changing my viewing diet and going back to basics, though I don’t think this includes Coronation Street with their current story lines involving identity theft, relationships with male escorts and dodgy adoptions.

For more of Bernie's TV reviews see page 14 of this week's Sentinel