The stage play, Slap&Tickle, that is the subject of this documentary honestly and frankly discusses aspects of adult gay male sexuality in the setting of a gay bathhouse. The actors are partly nude throughout the play (wearing gym towels) while full frontal nudity is fleetingly glimpsed.

Themes include modern gay man's quest for sexual and emotional fulfillment in a landscape changed over the past 25 years by drugs, politics, HIV and the internet. Six actors portray twenty characters whose spoken stories discuss first kisses to last loves; on-line hookups to off-line breakups; sleeping bag seductions and rape. Like Terrence McNallys The Ritz and Eve Enslers The Vagina Monologues, David Parrs Slap & Tickle shines fresh light on defining experiences of gay lives. What emerges is a play not just about sex but about the universal desire to connect.

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Widely-known euphemisms for sexual activities are used by characters in the play in a descriptive, though not in a titillating manner.

The stage play, Slap&Tickle, that is the subject of this documentary honestly and frankly discusses aspects of adult gay male sexuality in the setting of a gay bathhouse. The use of illicit recreational drugs by one of the characters is described in a narrative story told by another character, although it is not acted out on the stage.

Scenes recorded from the stage play involve characters in the play describing incidents of experiencing sexual assault.