Openly challenging increasingly obsolete and stale ideas of sex and sexuality, Shortbus is an at times uncomfortable, but always intriguing study of the infinitely intricate subject of human relationships. Utilising a series of complex and engaging characters, director John Cameron Mitchell tells a moving story, interspersed with sometimes comedic, sometimes harrowing sexual imagery, of several individuals’ experiences in a small, New York sex club called Shortbus. Sofia is a sex-therapist (or as she prefers to be called “couples counsellor”) who has never had an orgasm. After a counselling session with incredulous gay couple Jamie and James, she is convinced to visit a small New York sex club called Shortbus. The minute she steps inside the door she becomes visually, psychologically and emotionally exposed to a sexual awakening. Here, there are no boundaries, monogamy is a foreign concept and all emotional connotations associated with sex are removed. This is a place where sex is viewed as a basic biological function of humanity, and most of all, fun. In her time at the club, Sofia and her husband experience and participate in a number previously unthinkable acts, in an attempt to reach sexual enlightenment. A highly graphic and controversial film, yet undeniably relevant in these narcissistic times, Shortbus dares to go where other films won’t, dares to explore the unexplored and dares to discuss the previously unthinkable. It is a film which views sex with a refreshing detachment and champions the highly important and all but forgotten message that essentially, we are all human.

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