Last night I went to an amateur porn festival, Hump!, as part of my uncomfortable experiences series for this year. Although I'm pro-sex, I'm not a porn consumer, so I figured 18 short flicks ranging from the sensual to the squirmy and from the unicorn outfit donning hippie bisexuals to the bear gay groups interpreting Goldilocks gone completely sideways would cover my bases. The audience was packed with a cosmopolitan array of equal parts male, female, straight, gay, and whatever else in between. Honestly, it was pretty tame, like a "PG" rating for an obviously X rated genre. This was amateur, of course, so there weren't much for effects or exceptional explorations of niche fetishes. Still, as Dan Savage said, "We asked ourselves 13 years ago, 'would a bunch of strangers want to sit in a dark room and watch a bunch of strangers have sex, mostly the kind YOU would probably never desire or download? Like, EVER?' Clearly, the answer was and still is yes."

Thumbs up on this experience. Not too uncomfortable, but a good reminder that really, we're all the same with the same parts and same membership to the animal kingdom.