Was It Good For You?
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| "Was It Good For You?" | |
| Season | 2 |
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| Episode no. | 28 |
| Airdate | September 19, 1999 |
| Director | Dan Algrant |
| Writer(s) | Michael Patrick King |
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| Previous episode | "Shortcomings" |
| Next episode | "Twenty-Something Girls vs. Thirty-Something Women" |
Was It Good For You? is the sixteenth episode of the second season of the HBO television series Sex and the City. It originally aired on September 19, 1999.
In 2007, the episode was in the news for being part of research conducted by Ellie Parker and Adrian Furnham of the Department of Psychology at University College London. In a study[1] released online in advance of its publication in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Parker and Furnham investigated an audience's ability to recall advertisements under varying circumstances. In comparing advertisements placed in "Was It Good For You?"[2] vs. those placed in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle, the researchers discovered that "programs heavy on sexual content actually lead to less recall of ads that appear in commercial breaks"[3] and that sex was only an effective tool for selling to men.
[edit] Plot summary
| “ | Perineum. Latin for "not without an engagement ring." | ” |
Carrie dates a recovering alcoholic who becomes obsessed with her. Miranda furnishes her new apartment. Charlotte is determined to learn how to have good sex after her partner falls asleep on her. Samantha gets an offer to have a threesome with two gay friends.
[edit] References and footnotes
- ^ The study is titled "Does sex sell? The effect of sexual programme content on the recall of sexual and non-sexual advertisements."
- ^ http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1060
- ^ http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman/publish/article_10190.asp
