Coming soon to Five is a ground-breaking twopart documentary that explores the outer reaches of human sexuality. Strange Love profiles two very different types of relationship that have never been portrayed on British TV before.

The first episode, ‘My Car Is My Lover’, follows two men who have sexual relationships with their beloved vehicles. For the last 26 years, Edward has taken care of his lover, a 1974-era VW Beetle named ‘Vanilla’. “The minute I saw this car, I fell in love with her,” he says. “Almost every inch of her body has a certain sense of beauty.” Elsewhere, 20-year-old Jordan enjoys a similar relationship with his own Beetle.

Incredible as it seems, Edward and Jordan are part of a small internet community of ‘mechaphiles’ – men who have taken their love of motors to the ultimate extreme. The film follows Edward and Jordan as they embark on a unique road trip and share their remarkable stories. Their destination is a car show where dozens of shiny cars are on display – but how will they react when confronted with so many objects of desire?

The second programme, ‘I Married the Eiffel Tower’, takes a serious look at the emotional and psychological basis of a very different type of sexual proclivity – an overwhelming attraction to inanimate objects. The film meets one woman who has taken her passion for large public structures to such an extent that she has ‘married’ the Eiffel Tower. This woman is part of an exclusive network of object-lovers – or ‘objectum sexuals’ – who are gradually opening up about the unusual desires that dominate their lives.