Intimacy

Lessons to transform intimacy in our own lives, learned from a journey of changing sex on screen, by Ita O'Brien - the pioneering intimacy coordinator behind Sex Education, I May Destroy You, and Normal People.

What is sex? What is love? What is lust? What is connection? What is intimacy?

Before Ita O'Brien, no-one was thinking about how we see sex and intimacy on screen. But, after a lifetime of working in film and TV and seeing its abuses first-hand, Ita decided to change its ways for good.

Now, as Intimacy Coordinator on productions including Normal People, Sex Education and I May Destroy You, Ita has transformed the way we see and talk about sex in pop-culture. Here, Ita shares her new rules on intimacy for the post-#MeToo, post-Covid era, to help us rethink how we navigate sex and intimacy in our own lives - at home, in our closest relationships - and in society as a whole.

Full of behind-the-scenes stories, Intimacy is a call for us to rethink how we navigate each other, not just through our words, but through our bodies and actions, too.