Louis Theroux was stripped down to the waist before being blindfolded and fed strawberries and cream for his new documentary Love Without Limits.
The first of Theroux’s Altered States series will see Theroux engage in a Sensual Eating Party with a group called Sex Positive Portland as part of his exploration into polyamory in Oregon.
Theroux threw himself into the experience, taking off his top and obliging with being the blindfolded “taker”.
“It was all rather embarrassing, but at the same time a little bit liberating,” Theroux said of the experience.
“For a moment the idea of a world in which the currency of sex and love was more free-flowing made a tiny bit of sense.
“I felt like I needed to throw myself into it in order to show commitment and be respectful to the others. Everyone else was going way further than I was. There were people kind of spasming in ecstasy.
“There was a lot of nipple tweaking and one woman went round squirting whipped cream on her breasts and feeding the whipped cream to various people.”
He added that they were the “kind of images that stay with you forever”.
Theroux’s wife of six years Nancy Strang, with whom he has three children, was okay with his filmmaking antics after he “called her to run it past her”.
Louis Theroux Altered States: Love Without Limits starts Sunday on BBC Two at 9pm
