The first thing to know about "Sex, Lies, and Videotapes" is that it's a film about sex that doesn't have any nudity. Well, it's more about the psychology of the characters and their various viewpoints on sex, than the sex itself. It's almost like watching a very intimate therapy session involving 4 people, but way more entertaining than that sounds.

The characters viewpoints in short are that one doesn't care about sex and thinks it's not a big deal, two do it all the time and it seems they do it for the thrill of sneaking around, and one is impotent, but thinks that it brings a person significantly closer to another. All of their viewpoints change by the end of the film, most of them finding a sort of balance in sex. Basically it can mean something if it's with the right person.

There is a lot of tension in this film, but all the tension comes from the psychology of the various characters and who each character trusts. By the end of the film we learn just as much about them as they do about themselves.