The Adventurous Sex is a lost 1925 American silent drama film that was directed by Charles Giblyn and starred Clara Bow, Herbert Rawlinson, and Earle Williams.

[3] Rodney Adams (Herbert Rawlinson) spends too much time maintaining and flying his airplane, so much so that he neglects his fiancée Patricia (Clara Bow), who is also tiring of her parents' efforts to control her behavior and limit her socializing.

Soon she embarks on a more independent "flapper" lifestyle that includes wild parties and other excesses that attract the attention of Victor Ashley (Earle Williams), a handsome but lecherous "adventurer".

[5][6] By mid-October the New York-based trade paper The Film Daily was reporting to its readers that Metropolitan Casting, on behalf of Estabrook Productions, had officially contracted or "engaged" Herbert Rawlinson, Earle Williams, and Clara Bow to costar in the upcoming motion picture.

[14] In finalizing the theatrical footage and publicity stills of the rescue scenes shot at Niagara Falls, Estabrook's film editors employed special effects, using multiple exposures to add animated silhouettes of Rodney hanging on a rope ladder suspended from his airplane.

Robert Sisk of Variety, the entertainment industry's most widely read paper at the time, simply states in his June 17 review that the rescue's presentation is "Faked, but interesting".

[16] The trade paper notes too that the film was shown on June 12 as half of a double bill at Loew's Theatre in Manhattan, adding "'The Adventurous Sex' falls into the middle class of pictures and looks best suited for the daily changes.

"[16] That added remark by Variety was a clear insult or dismissive slight, at least as interpreted in the motion picture industry, where "daily changes" was a "pejorative term for movies that played one day, then moved on to another theater in another town".

[20] In its review of June 21, 1925, The Film Daily judges Giblyn's direction of the picture as mediocre and describes the climactic airplane stunt at Niagara Falls as farfetched but still a "thrill" to watch.

[21] Exhibitors Herald, a trade journal largely marketed to theater owners, simply describes the film as a "flapper story" in its review and summarizes its storyline with a good measure of detail.

The journal also recommends a half dozen scenes for theaters to "highlight" in their promotion of the film, including "Boxing bout between two flappers" and "The rescue by aeroplane on the brink of the falls".