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Dan Savage’s Hump!

DAN SAVAGE’S HUMP! See listings. Rating: NNNN


The thing about kink is that it’s impossible to explain why something works for you or doesn’t. Eroticism and fetishes – to say nothing of arousal – are such maddeningly personal things.

This is why I respect Dan Savage for the vast landscape of turn-ons that is his Hump! Tour, which touches down in Toronto on Saturday (July 12) with the express aim of putting the “hot” back in “Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.”

Curated from nearly a decade’s worth of submissions to Savage’s Seattle-based festival of sex-positive shorts, the touring version of Hump! offers 20 pieces of various inclinations, running times and formats. There’s gay porn, straight porn, animated porn, mockumentary porn and vérité porn. It’s never dull.

Among the more complicated fetishes explored are women who fantasize about banging centaurs (Mythical Proportions, which features some really clever stop-motion animation), a very specific sort of auto-eroticism (Go Fuck Yourself, in which a man is visited by his future self with a fairly obvious request) and whatever you call jumping on a trampoline while releasing your bladder (Go Ahead, Pee!).

I was especially impressed by Fun With Fire, in which a young woman allows her partner to light flash paper near some very sensitive parts of her body. It’s one of Hump!’s few entries that feels spontaneous and joyful, capturing the escalation of teasing, tension and release that marks a real connection between human beings.

We’re witnessing an exchange of genuine emotion and trust. That’d be hot even without the flames.

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