[6][7] It was one of four series by Onion Digital Studios to run that summer, the others being Troublehacking with Drew Cleary, Horrifying Planet, and Helcomb County Municipal Lake Dredge Appraisal.

[8] Sex House spanned ten six- to ten-minute-long episodes[9] uploaded to The Onion's YouTube channel throughout 2012, with its finale premiering on September 13, 2012.

[1] Alison Willmore of IndieWire wrote that the first episode of Sex House "manages to land some solid punches" despite it having become "so easy" to mock reality television by 2012 that "it ha[d] perversely become almost impossible", praising the character of Frank as "a genius addition" to the show.

[3] Jezebel's Madeleine Davies wrote after its first episode that Sex House was "the perfect fake reality show" which "captur[ed] the ridiculousness of The Real World, Jersey Shore and The Bachelor combined".

Spyra called it "one of the funniest things [she had] ever seen" and "an emotionally honest story that stands on its own" with "sharp, specific comedy writing" and "characters that ... you end up caring about".

She also stated that it "works so well" as satire because it targeted "the exploitative nature of reality-TV producers and the bottomless, amoral appetite of American TV-watchers" instead of attacking "the sweet, dopey housemates".