Imagine this—you’re sitting in a theater with a bunch of queers and freaky straights. You’re watching an amateur porn film festival. A milkmaid comes onto screen, milking actual goats. Your mind, of course, immediately jumps to, “I’m going to watch someone fuck a goat.” But then, in crawls a human-goat, tail buttplug and all, showing up to be milked. The milkmaid starts to finger the human-goat pretty sensually. Slowly the “baas” turn more ecstatic and even morph into “fuck yeah”s before this human-goat comes everywhere, resulting in tons of milk gushing into the bucket.
This is the HUMP! experience.
Of course, every film isn’t like this. There are sensuous neon paint parties, couples eating each other out in the woods, ball lickin’, fistin’, dissections of the dynamics of rough sex, queer spin-the-bottle orgies, etc. It’s a riot. And if you missed Dan Savage’s boisterous festival of amateur porn back in November—no worries! The films are about to be re-screened in all their raunchy glory next weekend at Revolution Hall.
HUMP! reminded me that it’s equally important for us to enunciate and have words and models for pleasure that are fundamentally built on communication, consent, humor, respect, and everyone having a good fucking time. The festival’s main mission is to change the way America sees—and makes and shares—porn. And who knows, maybe you’ll leave wanting to get milked!