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This is a film review. I had to talk about it. When I saw it I could not decide whether it was erotica or academic research. Either way, on both counts, it would pass with flying colours. For that is Short bus, a study into relationships and orgasms, and the search for both.

The film, written and directed by John Cami Ron Mitchell, was developed in improvisations by the actors, who brought their experiences and stories, and created a hilarious take on what people look for in life. It tackles politics, alternative sexualities, society all in one go, at the same time making you sit and think. Not what you’d expect in a film that contains strong, real sex.

Yet sex and relationships are an important aspect of our lives, and play a huge role in our perceptions of ourselves and enjoyment of life. In the film there’s a sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who finds it hard to connect, and a gay couple looking to open up their relationship. They all converge at the Shor tbus, a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality as the DVD cover describes it, or rather a club for the gifted and challenged, as the mistress of Short bus calls it.

There’s a very real sense of loneliness and desperation that comes through in the film, where people are constantly looking for something, often not sure what, and there are so many options available to them that they are confused about what track to take. The gay couple looking to open up their relationship are a case in point. One of them constantly feels numb and has not experienced a real feeling in years, and has even turned suicidal. He has a fear of letting men enter him and eventually he addresses that and finds an orgasm that is truly beyond the physical.

The sex therapist, on the other hand, has a very accommodating husband, who tries very hard to give his wife pleasure, but can’t succeed. He accompanies her to the Short bus, where eventually, at the end of the film, after meeting all sorts of people with different interests, she finds a couple that are truly connected who want to share their joy with her. And then she comes, and how!

There’s a former New York mayor who struggles with his conscience, feeling he did not do enough to tackle the AIDS crisis when it first came up because he was took afraid to come out. He finds a sympathetic friend in a young gay man who is open about his sexuality but understands others who aren’t. The dominatrix eventually starts talking to the sex therapist in the Short bus and discovers that she is having a real conversation for the first time. There are lesbian women who are constantly questioning their place in society and how much pleasure they derive from sex. The hottest couple of them have a moment of revelation when one of them admits she has never had an orgasm.

The frankness with which the topics are dealt with and the humour make for great watching. The carnality displayed in the film also, subtly, deals with issues of body image. The filming of real sex also adds that level of truth to the film.

After all, who are we to say what is really true? Are we all truly monogamous? Or is that a convention for society? If it is, it is an ideal to be achieved. And we can’t achieve it unless we accept that there is a need to open up our sexual minds. And the Short bus is the best way to do this.