Parents Guide for
Shortbus (2006) Plus avec IMDbPro »

Every single scene in this movie is about sex, whether shown explicitly or merely discussed in detailed, forthright terms.

A man lies nude in a bathtub filming himself urinating in the water. He then films himself fellating himself until he ejaculates into his mouth while another man spies on him through a telescope.

A dominatrix sanitizes dildos then beats a man with a whip. She uses the whip to play with clothespins clamped to his nipples.

A husband and wife have sex in a variety of positions. This is graphically shown including cunnilingus, fellatio, insertion during intercourse, the woman masturbating the man, the woman using a strap-on dildo on the man.

At several points in the movie, we see the film a man is editing showing himself and his partner. In some of the shots they are naked.

An orgy room in which people are shown explicitly performing many sexual acts is seen several times throughout the movie.

We see three naked men have sex with each other. The scene includes explicit oral-genital and oral-anal sex as well as one man masturbating another. There is also implied anal sex shot from the shoulders up. Another man is watching this scene through a telescope.

A woman masturbates with a dildo while her husband masturbates while looking at pornography on a computer in the other room. We see him only when she interrupts him. He waggles his erect penis to tease her.

A stripper performs with tasseled pasties in the out-of-focus background.

A dominatrix beats a man who is first clothed then naked.

Two fully nude men have sex.

A woman's fantasy of masturbating in public is shown.

A man tells a drag queen that someone just came on her cat. A drag queen tells about using fresh menstrual blood, straight from a tampon, as lipstick in a show.

A therapist slaps a client in the face.

A dead man is discovered in a jacuzzi. We see him floating in the water. Another man tries to revive him.

A man attempts suicide by pills and drowning.

Two men scuffle. A woman breaks it up and beats up one of the men.

Sex-related dialogue throughout, including explicit sexual phrases.

Drinking and smoking are present.