The Bike Smut Film Festival Is A Huge Hit In Salt Lake City

Bike Porn is a thing because, well, of course it's a thing. It's such a thing, in fact, that there's even a traveling film festival devoted to it now. Vice (link below) recently caught up with Reverend Phil Sano, the man behind the Bike Smut Film Festival. 

"As long as people have been getting on bikes, people have been getting off on bikes," he says while sitting outside Velowood Cyclery, the bike shop that hosted the annual festival when it passed through Denver on the first weekend in November.

Now in it's eighth year, Sano's open-submission film festival has traveled to Mexico, Canada, Turkey, Germany, Greece, and all over the US. Both the filmmakers and the audiences tend to be come from the queer, sex-positive community, but the films run the gamut from cutesy animations of twee romances to hardcore BDSM involving bike chains and tire tubes.

Alright, so who's the target audience for this, you may be asking yourself? Well, apparently it's huge in Utah.

Surprisingly, Bike Smut has been getting it's most enthusiastic audiences in conservative, religious areas like Salt Lake City rather than more sexually liberated cities like San Francisco.

"From the people who grew up with [sexual repression] in those areas and then rejected it, you get this incredibly strong counterculture," Sano tells me. "Not many sex-positive groups will go to these places, so they have to do it themselves."

So there you have it folks, a glimpse into what our country would look like if Mitt Romney had been elected. We would have been renamed Bikebot, and all porn would be bike-centric. 

Via Vice