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By
Giacomo Tramontagna
The circuit-party phenomenon, which lures well-heeled, attitudinous gay men from city to city in search of the ultimate blowout, seems a natural premise for a porn video. Michelangelo Signorile
has condemned these weekend bacchanals as occasions of sin; British gay journalist Andy Logan notes in a recent issue of
QX International that the parties attract "elites of fierce muscle divas who're oiled, buffed,
plucked, tanned, cropped, and Metrexed to the eyeballs."
Burning contains four episodes, each set in a different city, each involving a couple who connect at a circuit party. The cities could be anywhere. The parties seem interchangeable. Each cast member is
first shown on a purported dance floor, doing what has been dubbed the "Butt Plug Shuffle," and then, for the most part, having sex at some other location. In New Orleans, Richard DeSantis gets it on with Peter Horne; this
starts with some urgency, then leaves you trying to decipher the tattoo under Horne's left armpit. In Miami, Steve Pierce grapples with Cody Whiler. In Austin, DeSantis reappears to engage Tony Tedesco in foreplay and fellatio
at the party before they adjourn to someone's back yard. Then, in Palm Springs, Alex Summers and Rod Barry have sex on a red-carpeted stairway.
It doesn't help that many of these performers are packaged to fit the Billy-doll stereotype of circuit-party animals. On the other hand, except for a few establishing shots, nothing seems to have been filmed at
an actual party, and no attempt is made to capture the ambiance of one. The music is a nagging dirge.
Burning could have been shot on location in a K hole. It doesn't burn, it just generates ash. Has promiscuity ever really
been this boring?
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