HUMP

My second hump and I have to say 2014 was a great year. Perfect mixture of all types of amateur videos. It was well organized too.
Tip get your tickets early!

If you film it, someone will come.
Bravo to the Stranger, purveyors of the strange and kinky, for thinking this up and making it happen.
While I thought it would be more awkward than fun, it wasn’t at all. Not even going with a group of friends that included someone I barely knew and a couple.
Good to know:
Tickets sell out SO FAST so if you’re in any way interested, grab them immediately.
There are ‘themes’ for the year this time packing peanuts was one of them, heh.
You can drink in the lobby but not the theater other than the shots they sold on stage at the opening monologue (by none other than Dan Savage)
It’s ‘get em in, get ‘em out’ so you’re waiting in the lobby, rush to your seat, watch 20 or so 5 min and under amateur porn movies, fill out your voting card for ‘Sex’ ‘Kink’ and «Humor’ as well as ‘Best in Show’.
Oh, and plan for some uncomfortable moments no matter what your comfort level is, mine were of the slightly disassociated straight couple sex set to Massive Attack.
Yuck.

I’ll state it frankly — I get paid to look at porn. That isn’t the MAIN function of my job, but it is a considerable one. Yup. I get paid to look at all sorts of naked people, not naked people, toys, vanilla activities to wtf?! kind of stuff on a daily basis. Been doing it long enough that im kind of blind to a lot of it these days…
But.
I will and DO pay $ to go to Hump.
Yup, I’ll drop the dollars to see some locally sourced porn in a contest format.
Each film has a max time of 5 minutes, and there is anywhere between 15 – 20 of them based off submissions. All the films are destroyed after the festival so no possible leakings on the internet occur. Hosted by Dan Savage and the Stranger — you know you are in for a riotous good time.
I can’t quite put my finger on why it is such an enjoyable. Maybe the quick slamming of shots before things start up (since we can’t mix booze and naked people here in WA) makes things more riotous. Perhaps its the shared experience — sitting in a theater of strangers and friends watching the awesomely bad to awesome porn that takes the awkward edge away… or to a new level? Some people look uncomfortable, so maybe it is nice knowing someone else in the theater is/​is not having their panties in the a twist just like you are/​are not. And sometimes — the stuff is actually good. The «centaur» winner of the comedy category last year? Funny as hell and amazing. Unicorns and Dolphins this year? YES! So you get some clever talented folks making clever, entertaining, and good porn. Oxymoron? Nope, Hump proves that wrong.

Not all porn is created equal — some is great, some is weird, some is downright gross, and some is utterly forgettable. At HUMP! — the PacNW’s yearly amateur porn fest — you’ll definitely see the first two categories but never have I once been disappointed.
HUMP! is quite simple: folks can submit their own amateur adult-​themed videos (hardcore, softcore, animated, gay, straight, trans, kink, vanilla, musical, whatever) with optional inclusion of that year’s themes (this year: sweater vests, packing peanuts, and lesbian sex). There’s a time limit, I think five minutes or so, and all copies of all the films are destroyed after the screenings so that no one finds their fun online in a few months. Unless they want to put it there themselves, in which case: good for them! The creativity and humor displayed in these shorts is mind-​boggling. I literally howl with laughter every year and I’m continually stunned by how sexy Seattleites are. Hosted by the legendary Dan Savage and presented by The Stranger, HUMP! is a local treasure that everyone should see!