Dawn Porter’s a game lass, who will throw herself headfirst into the challenge of unravelling the secrets surrounding sex… or should I say, some of the fringes of the sexual appetite. Of course, her new series on Channel 4 has seen her taking a step back from the experiences, and the physical aspects to scratch the surface to find what happens emotionally. Her last show saw her indulging in some Free Love, next week, she’s Dawn Porter: Mail Order Bride (Channel 4, Tuesday, 7 October, 10pm).

Now, when I spoke to her on the phone a couple of weeks ago, she told me that the ‘mail order’ show saw her witnessing the most “predatory instincts of men” come to the fore. If last week was Dawn gamely joining in, then this is Porter being at her most uncomfortable.

In her look at various mechanics and ways in which love and relationships come to be, this will probably be the strangest and toughest. While free-love, swinging and the like, sees consenting adults making a decision, mail ordering a wife is a different and more practical way of solving loneliness. However, is there exploitation? Dawn heads off to the Ukraine to looking at this boom industry, which sees around 4,000 men ordering brides every year.