99 Words About … The horrible sex in HBO’s ‘Girls’

HBO was built on sex.

"Taxicab Confessions." "Real Sex."

The main reason to watch early comedies "Dream On" and "Arli$$"? Bosoms.

Then there was a little show called "Sex and the City."

This one's more like "Sex and the Pity."

Writer-director-actress Lena Dunham has created a vivid, painfully specific 24-year-olds-in-Manhattan landscape in "Girls" (10:30 p.m. Sunday, HBO).

It's a fearless, provocative, intimate look at the hopes -- and shortcomings -- of a new generation of women.

But what sticks with you is the sex scenes.

The awkward, humiliating, squirm-inducing, hands-covering-your-eyes sex scenes.

They'll make you weep for the future of humanity.

-- CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE