Marriage is a buffer against loneliness. Marriage is difficult. Some marriages self-destruct after a certain number of years. Even long-married spouses keep secrets from each other to keep the marriage going.
A man drags his younger girlfriend out of a party and wrestles her, kicking and screaming, into his car. Later he makes her wait in the car while he goes to his ex-wife to plead to be taken back. Couples throw hurtful zingers at each other.
A couple is seen, fuzzily and briefly, making love in the dark, and a woman's nipple can be glimpsed. A married man regularly sees a prostitute. Their sexual encounters are not shown. There are references to impotence. A man fantasizes about having sex with his aerobics trainer. Later he leaves his wife for her. A married professor kisses a student but goes no further. A teenager has simultaneous multiple affairs with older men. Discusses adulterous sexual longings, orgasms, impotence, threesomes, lesbian sex, and other intimate details of married life.
"F--k," "s--t," "ass," "a--hole," "get it up," "hooker," "dick," and "jerking off."
Adults drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes.