One man, five continents, and a multitude of sin!
Original title
Sin Cities
Released
1/1/2000
Origin country
GB
Genre
Comedy, Documentary
Production companies
Visual Voodoo, ITN
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
4
Number of episodes
56
Sin Cities is a British sexually-oriented travel television series with Grub Smith for season one and Ashley Hames for seasons two through four. It originally broadcast on Bravo from 2000 to 2007. It has also been broadcast on Showcase in Canada. Series 1 and 2 were produced by Visual Voodoo while Series 3 and 4 were produced by Class Films. Smith and Hames co-hosted a spin-off series entitled Sin Cities Unleashed which consisted of edited highlights from the first two series of Sin Cities. The premise of the series sees the host traveling to cities around the world and exploring sexual entertainment options, occasionally even participating. The tone of the series is irreverent and humorous, with a tendency to focus on some of the more bizarre options available, such as wearing nappies and being captured for sexual pleasure.
He arrives in Bangkok, where he grapples with a top transexual kickboxer, attends a ladyboy beauty contest, and searches for the perfect Thai massage.
In Barcelona, he checks out the nightlife, attending the city's unique slave school and visiting the world's largest adult entertainment company.
He travels to Berlin, where he invesitgates the city's underground culture, visiting the most decadent clubs and performing with two of the city's top drag artists.
He travels to Copenhagen where he meets an erotic photographer, takes part in a Gonzo film and discovers how the new bridge between Denmark and Sweden has spiced up Sweden's nightlife.
In this edition he journeys to Hong Kong, where he cooks a meal at the city's famed penis restaurant, meets a nude pianist and drives around the Club Bebos.
He arrives in Indonesia, where he attends a mountain-top love festival, visits a foam party and goes surfing with some Balinese gigolos.
He journeys to Las Vegas, where he finds out exactly why the city is becoming the party capital of the US, learns how to pole dance and visits the most famous bordello in America
In this edition he journeys to Los Angeles, where he co-stars in an adult movie, takes a limo ride with adult-film star Ron Jeremy and meets a man who takes beatings for a living.
He explores Miami, where he learns how to film an adult movie underwater and gets sold into slavery at an S and M charity auction.
In New York he gets involved in a sexy army re-enactment with New York's Village Fantasies company, and meets ex-pat film director Neville Chambers, who makes videos of couples having sex in Manhattan taxi cabs.
In this edition, he travels to Rome, taking a trip to the biggest swingers' club in Europe, attending auditions for a male strip group, and staging an erotic road test with some sexy young Italians.
In this edition, he tries his hand at male stripping in Miami, discovers how to recruit Playboy centrefolds in Las Vegas, and meets Russia's first web-cam girl.
In this edition, he travels to Russia, checking out the outrageous Hungry Dick club in Moscow, getting a birch tree massage in a sauna, and visiting a nude hairdresser's in St Petersburg.
In San Francisco, two drag queens give him a guided tour of the city's clubs, where he meets the star of the 'Bend over Boyfriend' films, and he discovers exactly what precision kicking involves.
He journeys to Singapore, where he meets the city's renowned 'love detective', explores the country's strange sex laws and takes a tour of the hotspots.
In this edition he journeys to Tokyo, where he takes a tour of the city's adult TV channel, checks out the schoolgirl-fetish scene and gets an examination from a naughty nurse.
In this episode Ashley becomes a glamour photographer for the day, working with Brazil's premier porn couple. He gets a Brazilian wax on the back streets of Rio, drags up for the carnival and visits a feminist porn company.
In this episode he meets a group of girls who make money out of peeing. He also goes on a photoshoot with Sydney's Bombshells and gets a naked massage with a Kylie lookalike.
Ashley takes part in a Tantric sex class in Maui, meets the black man who has sex with white wives, and wrestles a female bodybuilder
Ashley returns to his roots, where he takes a pasting from two bare-breasted boxing babes, looks at the UK's first stripping school and its disrobing diploma course. He also goes back to school for the thrashing of his life and goes underground to find some of London's saucier hidden hotspots.
In this episode Ashley eats forbidden fruit off the naked body of a sacrificial virgin. He is also trained as Mistress Sofia's slave and acts out a bizarre postmodern roleplay scenario involving suspenders and a feather for a local magazine.
Featuring the ringside thrills of an erotic circus and pubic hair-torching naturists. And Ashley has syringes pushed through his body by a guy who drags people around a stage with his genitals.
In this episode Ashley changes his name to Bubba the Buck, puts on a bridle and gets ridden on a ranch. He also makes an erotic CD, takes the starring role in a 'Messy Fun' adult film and meets some naughty bikers.
Ashley heads for Manila where he attends a lesbian sex class, learns to chat up Filipino girls with the help of Miss Philippines, gets his penis moulded into a cake, and gets to perform at a traditional drag club.
Ashley gets a gruesome piercing, goes to a bar where women dive for money, and has his manhood cast in stone
Ashley travels to the Czech capital, where he gets his debut in a porn film shoot, hunts for a likely Miss Sin Cities Prague winner and finds a new use for power tools. He also eats off a local beauty and visits a service station where the emphasis is firmly on 'service'.
In this episode Ashley observes a swimsuit calendar photoshoot, goes scuba diving - naked, and learns the art of sensual massage.
In this episode Ashley dates twenty women in one hour and meets Fetish Diva Midori, the world famous SM specialist. He also poses for a fetish life-drawing class, learns how to wrestle women in jelly and meets some gothic balloon fetishists.
Ashley battles it out in the Nude Olympics, meets the sadistic women who run the Melbourne Correction Centre, and auditions to be a male escort.
Featuring a porno paintathon with France's finest X-rated artist, an exercise in flashing around the city's top tourist spots, a lesbian can-can extravaganza, naked fun with horses and the dubious pleasure of seeing Ashley's testicles get nailed to a piece of wood.
Ashley Hames uncovers strange practices all over the world, including naked flamenco, more porn shoots and a trio of rampant nymphomaniac swingers.
This week he travels to Budapest, where he tries out some chat-up lines in the street, and goes on set at a porn shoot.
This week he travels to Jamaica, where he learns to dance with a dancehall queen, discovers how local men are paid by women to have sex, and gets a unique fruit massage.
This week he travels to Seattle, where he meets a man who makes a professional film of your lovemaking, investigates weightless sex and gets a small part in an erotic horror film.
Ash meets Derek at a swingers club. He then visits a fetish chamber where a man has weights hanging from his bits, and dresses up as a baby.
Ash meets English porn actress Eleanor. Then he heads across the border to Rosarito in Mexico and enjoys a spa with a Mexican before meeting Miss Climax - a dominatrix who is trying for five orgasms in ten minutes.
Ashley meets some lap dancers and tries to guess their bra sizes. When he fails the test he has to dress up in drag. Then he meets Victoria who wants to give him a prostate stimulation massage - which leaves him howling. Finally he tries out a male chastity belt and road tests it in a lap dancing club.
Curtis and Virginia hire a plane for fun in the air. Scarlet and Lush compete in an amateur strip contest. Ashley puts snow on his manhood to watch it shrivel.
Ashley meets Fernandez, who can orally pleasure himself - and learns how it's done, then meets an art group who base their work on S&M.
Ashley enters a bikini contest and comes last. He has photos taken of himself half-naked on top of an obese woman by her photographer boyfriend. Then he visits the Atone tribe who suspend their bodies on meathooks in mid air.
Ashley attends a biker convention, mud wrestles three women, and loses. He takes a stroll in a wood famous for voyeurs and exhibitionists, and visits a restaurant where you can spy on people having it off.
Ashley decorates some pubes - then has his done. He meets gang bang champion Claudia Figura, gets pissed on vodka with her, but backs out of an invitation to a foursome.
Ashley attends a fetish night, takes part in a an amateur strip contest, and meets a group of gang bangers - black guys who offer their services to women for cash
This week he travels to Stockholm where he meets a woman who makes erotic art, goes on a model shoot with half-naked girls, helps body-paint a woman and meets a man with three wives that he spanks regularly with birch.
This week he travels to Hamburg, where he gets on board the 'Hot Bus', visits the world's first sex opera, finds a stripper online to marry and visits a bondage club.
This week he travels to Montreal, where he meets Sweet Dominique, the most downloaded non-nude model, goes cruising down the docks on the swinging Love Boat and checks out a sex machine.
Ashley finds himself in Los Angeles in the thick of the West Coast porn industry. Here he meets a number of desperate wannabes, hell bent on a career spent on their back. There’s the poverty stricken first-timer, eking out dollars to pay the rent. A nineteen year old whose dreams of fame & fortune come to a sticky end and, well, the three amigos… a triumvirate of young studs who are given the opportunity of a lifetime to try out with a major porn star. Their resulting humiliation is tangible.
It’s the age old excuse… darling it’s not porn, it’s art. Well is there any modicum of truth to this? Ashley Hames travels the globe on a mission to find out. His journey will take him to Seattle and a sculptor who builds furniture out of trussed-up women. In California he witnesses nude choking and near drowning displays that take expressive art to new levels. And in Australia, Ash puts his own piece to canvass painting still life nudes with… his penis.
Ashley sets up home with two married couples in Los Angeles’ infamous San Fernando Valley, the spiritual home of the porn industry. Here he lives with top US adult star Taylor Way and her husband of 15 years. How has there marriage lasted so long when every day she commits the ultimate betrayal of their vows, whilst he films? It’s a bizarre arrangement indeed. The second couple stretch things even further. Ash meets a married mother who for her fiftieth birthday has decided to become a porn actress and go anal for the first time with three young studs. Ash watches the action with her doting husband of thirty years and tears are brought to everyone’s eyes.
Ashley tackles the American West coast in pursuit of some of the strangest folk in town. Sadists, masochists, body piercers and genital tramplers are just some of the oddballs he meets on a journey that can only end one way. With Ashley in a whole heap of pain himself.
Ashley visits Japan for the first time and is blown away by what he finds there. The complex eastern belief systems of our Asian friends make it difficult for Ash to get his head round the bizarreness of their sexual attitudes. Sex on public transport, tentacle porn, and a hotel full of rubber sex slaves await him. Ash is also invited to appear as a judge on a national TV stations search for the industries latest porn actress, and the tables are turned as his performance is judged in the Tokyo Air Sex championships.
We always thought the Aussies were a relaxed bunch, but we had no idea… Travelling the length of the Eastern Australian Coast Ashley uncovers pockets of seemingly normal folk who harbour weird sexual urges. In this show, Ash is invited into the suburban homes of Adult Babies, a couple who think they are dogs and a group of mates who love nothing more than to spend their evenings filming group sex.
Ashley travels the globe to seek out a very dark world indeed. The world of the sexual fantasist. Strange men and women who’ll stop at nothing to live out their wildest erotic dreams. Orgies, torture victims, bizarre sex pigs… Ashley encounters them all before succumbing to his own dark fantasy: he attempts to give himself breasts.
From Europe, to Australia, to Japan. Ashley goes on a global spending spree to see what’s on offer from the world of prostitution. He cleans the sheets in Australia’s busiest brothel, visits a state of the art bordello in Prague, and samples the delights in a 5 million Euro luxury German knocking shop. The line is eventually crossed as Ashley sells his own body for hard cash.
Since the fall of the iron curtain, Eastern Europe has embraced capitalism and millions now flock there each year to spend their hard earned cash. Most go to enjoy the beautiful scenery, others for untold pleasure and sexual gratification. Even pornographic film makers from as far as America are taking advantage of the economic benefits of shooting there. Ashley jumps on the band wagon flying to this land of opportunity to meet some of these ‘artists’. He gets involved in an orgy party consisting of 100 beautiful Czech girls, and has to hold his breath as he witnesses first hand, the ancient sexual ritual of Bukakke.
Ashley heads to Seattle to make Sin Cities first ever pornographic movie. Under the watchful eye of America’s finest schlock horror porn specialist, Ashley struggles to direct his ensemble of zombies, nudes and sexual vicars. Scorcese he is not but with only four days to shoot will Ash succeed in getting anything at all on film?
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