Secret Sex

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Sex and the City episode
"Secret Sex"
Season 1
Episode no. 6
Airdate July 12, 1998
Director Darren Star
Writer(s) Michael Fields
Episode chronology
Previous episode "The Power of Female Sex"
Next episode "The Monogamists"


Secret Sex is the sixth episode of the first season of the HBO television series Sex and the City. It originally aried on July 12, 1998.

The women who wrote that [relationship rule] book — they wrote it because they couldn't get laid, so they constructed this whole bullshit theory to make women who can get laid feel bad.

Carrie and Mr. Big have their first official 'date'. They sleep together on the first night, and after developing an appetite, Mr. Big takes Carrie to a Chinese restaurant. At the Chinese restaurant, Carrie's friend Mike Singer tells her that sometimes people may keep their partner secret possibly because they are ashamed of them. This causes Carrie to suspect that Mr. Big is keeping her secret from his social circle but turns out its all in her imagination.

Meanwhile, after Miranda knocks out Ted Baker during gym class, they start dating until she discovers a spanking video in Ted's apartment. Miranda makes a joke about spanking, Ted never returns her calls thereafter.