Sexologist Goedele Liekens and presenter Steve Jones discuss feelings and sensations with the couples after they do the deed.

Sex Box is coming to New Zealand television screens this July, courtesy of TVNZ.

The controversially-received Channel 4 series, which requires ordinary English couples to take to the stage, step into a windowless box, have sex and then discuss what they've just done with a live studio audience has been picked up by TV2.

"Sex Box is a show with a difference," a TVNZ media statement read.

"Inspired by the work of sex researchers, three couples will do what comes naturally – have sex – and then talk about it afterwards – whilst the feelings and sensations are still vivid and truthful."

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The statement says that "while the talk will be intimate, the couples' love-making will be entirely hidden from view – inside the Sex Box".

The series boasts expert advice and coaching from UN ambassador for sexual health Goedele Liekens, with former T4 presenter Steve Jones at the hosting helm.

Sex Box was met with a wave of controversy when it first aired in 2013 and it's returned to UK screens for a second season, with the first episode baffling local audiences.

Throughout the TV2 series, episodes airing here will feature a variety of different and daring sexual experiences, including a first time lesbian encounter, bondage, spanking and a test run of new sexual positions.

In the UK, television critics from The Times suggested the intimate new series is best approached with "an open mind".

"If you put aside your preconceptions, ignore the surrounding brouhaha and watch this programme with an open mind, it becomes difficult to criticise and impossible to condemn" the review read.

Others deemed the series boring, and "the worst show I've seen in a long time" with The Telegraph UK describing the series as nothing more than "gimmick, prurience, exploitation and dullness."

While no official air date has been released, TVNZ are scheduled to premiere the series on TV2 in July of this year.