A woman who is unable to have an orgasm with her husband learns about wild underground sex parties in New York. Curious, she discovers a variety of sexual experiments. Meanwhile a couple are looking a threesome.

Film Trivia

• To make the actors more comfortable during the orgy scene, director John Cameron Mitchell and the cameraman stripped naked while filming it.
• During the audition process, any interested actors were asked to submit a ten minute video of themselves describing an important sexual experience. Director John Cameron Mitchell received over 500 tapes.
• Director John Cameron Mitchell is better known as an actor and his feature film debut was as J.L in Band of the Hand.

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