Shortbus

Welcome to Shortbus, the nightclub of all nightclubs, where we can see gays, lesbians, group sex, transvestites, fetishes, debate clubs, musical acts and everything even the famous Studio 54 did not have.

 

Shortbus: A movie for all the people who love sex

 

Shortbus: The boundary between pornography and erotica is vague

There is no room for stars here. Only the wacky, different, wild, basic and perverted individuals who want to let loose, want to relax and search for the meaning of life party here. They are looking for the edges of their sexually and the edges run deep, all the way to extremely explicit, direct and powerfully pornographic scenes, which could even be used in pornos. That is right, Shortbus, directed by John Cameron Mitchell, author of cult musical drama Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starts off as a straight porno movie. It is one of the most sexually explicit movies of all time, leaving movies like The Last Temptation of Christ, The Idiots, The Dreamlife of Angels, Ken Park, Kingdom of Heaven and The Brown Bunny, where Chloe Sevigny performed famous oral sex on Vincent Gallo, far behind it.

 

Shortbus: Some of the explicit, direct and highly pornographic scenes would fit into even porn movies

 

Masturbating into the mouth

Attention, there are many scenes of this and they all rock at the same time, just like in Requiem for a Dream, except that it is about sex here. It is about the bed acrobatics of the Japanese woman Sophie (Sook-Yin Lee), about the domination of the wacky Severin (Lindsay Beamish) and about the masturbation of the depressed gay James (Paul Dawson), who films what he is doing and comes into his own mouth. You are right, the guy is like Ron Jeremy and the sperm squirts into his mouth live and close up. And then we witness gay group sex between James, his boyfriend Jamie (PJ DeBoy) and a young man they pick up at the Shortbus. During their sexual escapade, they sing the American anthem into one another’s erect penis. To be more precise, Jamie sings into the young man’s ass and the young man sings into James’s penis.

 

Shortbus: There is even gay group sex

 

An egg between the legs

We naturally also have an egg that Sophie puts between her legs and waits for her boyfriend’s vibrations, who naturally presses the remote control buttons with pleasure. There are very fun and wild adventures in the movie. The movie is aware that it will take more than this, that it will take even more than the pornographic scenes, that they will need to offer more to the viewers. They will need to offer something deep, powerful, high-quality and original. The big O, the orgasm of all orgasms, which our Sophie, the sexual therapist who cannot come, dreams of. She cannot get to the climax even with her hand. She would kill to have an orgasm. She would literally give anything for it. One of the regular clients at Shortbus explains that she will not die if she never comes, that she need not worry, it is just how things are. This regular knows very well that the female orgasm starts in the head, with the vagina dialogues, with taking it easy and really relaxing, by erasing the edges and boundaries most women set.

 

Shortbus: It starts off as a straight porn movie

 

An orgasm which switches off the electricity

You are correct, Shortbus is an educational movie. It is for all the people who love sex, love to really go at it and listen to their desires. This is not about wild vibrating masturbation in the middle of the bathroom, lesbian intercourse or threesomes. This is about things in the head, about a chip which gives off the right vibrations, an orgasm which turns off the electricity in the whole of New York and takes the woman to hell. That is right, Shortbus is a movie where woman do not come even in paradise. This movie strikes you when you least expect it and a movie that only people who come only during masturbation will turn off. This is a great movie, a movie for Sunday afternoons and the Christmas holidays.

 

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