Simone Ashley’s sex education? Learning the sensual secrets gleaned from gastropods.

The “Bridgerton” Season 2 star revealed that during a 2019 intimacy workshop to prepare for her other role on Netflix’s “Sex Education,” she observed how snails mate to prepare for the series’ onscreen sex scenes.

“We explored the movement of different animals to kind of portray different paces or different sexualities or how sensual something could be,” Ashley described during The Los Angeles Times’ “The Envelope” podcast. “For example, we look to how snails mate, and when snails mate, they actually produce a plasma that intertwines.”

She added, “So if it was a really sensual, slow kind of scene, we’d be like, ‘Oh, it’s like the snail.’ And it’s super like the plasma, like falling like honey. So we would make it about that or how dogs mate or chimpanzees mate — it’s very like fast-paced...