Let’s talk about sex! Welcome to Tofu, a documentary series – with sketch comedy and fantasy elements – in which the great British public, porn stars, and the casts of C4 shows Cucumber and Banana share their sex confessions – from their most awkward, unwieldy, disastrous encounters, to the most gloriously filthy and downright daring – and answer probing, personal questions about sex, sexuality, and getting laid in modern Britain.
“Especially in this country, I think we have a f***ed up idea about sex.” The British public and the casts of Channel 4 shows Cucumber and Banana talk openly and honestly about their most unlikely and embarrassing sexual encounters, and the greatest, most glorious, headboard-banging, sheet-clenching, legs-trembling, hair-pulling, ass-smacking, thigh-bruising, back-scratching, lip-biting, explosive sex of their lives.
“Sex is like any other addiction. You don’t need it.” Lexy, 20, is asexual. She’s indifferent to sex; sometimes even repulsed by it. Shirley, 58, has been celibate since 2000, and she couldn’t be happier. Who needs a man when you have a vibrator? Caroline, 57, would rather stay in and have a nice cup of coffee. But then there’s 33-year-old Gary, who’s haunted by the sex he’s missing out on. Sarah, a 19-year-old virgin, who wants it, but can’t get it. She blames herself. Chloë, 54, who’s had to learn to make sex irrelevant to her life; she’ll go to her grave wishing she’d had more of it. Sex is everywhere. But not everyone’s getting it.
“You come out quiet, or you come out loud. I most probably done the loud.” Is coming out really such a big deal anymore? In modern Britain, does anyone still care if you’re lesbian, gay, bi, trans, or queer? It still matters to 18-year-old Mark, who’s about to come out as gay to more than 40,000 people on YouTube – “which is terrifying,” he admits. What will his straight mates think? And his mum? Is coming out once ever enough?
“We’re gonna make wonderful sex, and shag all night.” The great British public and the casts of Channel 4 shows Cucumber and Banana discuss the double-edged, hyper-sexual, hormonal awakening of teenagers, cuddling Keira Knightley, lusting after Michael Caine, shipping gay porn stars, and the adolescent crushes that never went away. Plus, losing your virginity in the disabled loos of your local park! Well, you’re only young once.
If you make it, they will cum. The casts of Channel 4 shows Cucumber and Banana, and the great British public, discuss taste and decency, sexual politics, and sex, sex, sex on the small screen. As well as going behind the scenes on Cucumber, Tofu looks back at seminal Russell T Davies drama Queer as Folk, which broke new ground in the way that sex and sexuality were depicted on TV.
Hook-up apps like Grindr and Tinder have given anyone with a smartphone instant access to casual sex in a way that websites, personal ads and real life (whatever that is) can only dream of. Sexual liberation at our fingertips! It’s straightforward… but is it sleazy? Dangerous, even? Should we rage against the machine, or embrace the apps? The British public, porn stars, and the casts of Channel 4 shows Cucumber and Banana consider whether no-strings sex with strangers is really as much fun as it sounds.
The final episode of the intimate and uncompromising documentary series in which the great British public and the casts of Channel 4 shows Cucumber and Banana share their filthiest, most outrageous sex stories – from a threesome with a mother and daughter, to BDSM with politicians and policemen. It’s sex, turned up to 11! A smorgasbord of smut. It’s filthy, dirty sex.
