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Humans have been having sex for more than two million years. By the time written evidence appears, thousands of years ago, sexual relations were already set in a pattern if not identical to today, then familiar to modern men and women; marriage was the norm and sexual taboos for transgression were firmly established. But when did humans first feel the need to enforce the rules about who could sleep with whom, to let sex become governed by society? Was there ever a time of carefree sex, where our ancestors let it all hang out? Sex BC, a new three-part series, starts by travelling back 26,000 years to look at the fragmentary evidence of sexual practices left by our earliest European ancestors. Can a mysterious triple burial gives us clues about the earliest sexual taboos and what do the small clay figures of women found across Europe from that time tell us about prehistoric sexuality?