Laney dragged me along to see the most random show tonight “A Guide To Sexual Misery”. Wolfgang Weinberger, professional sexologist, was aiming to answer any and all questions about sexual relations and why, quite often, it goes wrong!

I wasn’t really sure what I was in for – was it going to be like Your Days are Numbered: Maths and Death, a presentation using statistics to demonstrate why a large percentage of our population was due for sexual misery?, was there going to be embarrassing crowd-participation moments? was it sex therapy? was I going to be laughing? was I going to be laughed at?

Turns out that it was a bit of a combination of everything. Wolfgang is at heart an academic with a degree in economic and MA in Filmmaking. Very random then that he should turn to this particular topic without much academia to support him. The show contained mostly clichéd presumptions, generalisations and reactions about sex. He tried to get the crowd involved by asking us questions like “does size matter”, “do you masturbate more than once a day/daily/weekly/monthly” … this was after separating the men from the women to give a kind of wall of silence between partners with humming being our way of secret voting. Hmmm … not that anonymous really! This part was rather awkward to say the least!

Having said all that I couldn’t help but laugh for most of the show, albeit nervously at times! I don’t think the show would have been half as funny if it hadn’t been presented by someone like Wolfgang, who was endearing in his bumbling way and his Austrian accent. I wouldn’t recommend this show for anyone actually seeking answers to resolve their sexual misery but you will, at least for 90 minutes, be entertained.