Sex House is a web series produced by The Onion, produced via their Onion Digital Studios department. It is exclusive to YouTube per a grant from the website. It is a dark satire of reality shows, their production and surrounding culture. The series was directed by Geoff Haggerty, produced by Grant Jones, Sandy Gordon and Matt Corrado, cinematography by Mark Niedelson and production design by Lauren Adel Klich.
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Plot
Six people representing various reality show stereotypes are put in a house designed around having as much sex as possible. In order of arrival, they are Jay, a stereotypical fratboy, Alex, an attention-seeking "indie" girl, Tara, a self-described spoiled party girl and ex-cheerleader, Erin, an 18-year-old virgin, Frank, a married 45 year-old accountant with two children who won a pizza contest to gain entry to the house (admitting that he doesn't intend to have sex with anyone but simply wants to meet people), and Derek, the house's only homosexual who is immediately disappointed to learn that neither of the other men in the house are gay.
Frank and Erin drunkenly have sex on the first night after the ice-breaker, and she falls pregnant immediately. Jay and Tara are attracted to each other, but their efforts to have sex are continually foiled by the intrusive nature of the show. Alex is desperate to have sex with any of the other contestants or anyone who comes to visit the house, but her heavy-handed flirting only comes across as desperate, and she is continually rebuffed. Derek, being the only gay man, is unable to have sex with anyone, and instead turns his attention to pointing out the many flaws in the clearly carelessly put-together show.
It quickly becomes clear that despite being luxuriously decorated, the house is extremely shoddily constructed, and the show itself is extremely poorly organised. The creators of the show are seemingly apathetic to the group's wellbeing, only eager to have them have sex. Indeed, despite the filming of the show seeming to take place over several weeks, there are no plans to have the house cleaned or maintained, or even have food delivered to the group. The rapid deterioration in the state of the house proves extremely taxing to the mental and physical health of the contestants, and their desire to have sex with each other drops rapidly, much to the chagrin of the show's organisers, who do not allow them to leave.