No, gentle reader, afraid not. It is, in fact, an affinity or sexual attraction by a human to an animal. Crudely put, it's bestiality.
On July 2 2005, Kenneth Pinyan, an engineer with Boeing and a divorced father of one, died of acute peritonitis after his colon was perforated.
The death was ruled accidental but it later transpired the victim had been engaged in a sexual act with an Arab stallion on a farm in Washington State.
Film-maker Robinson Devor's seductively shot documentary aims to "aesthetise the sleaze" out of the bizarre fatality…yet you cannot help thinking he's putting a quasi-romantic gloss on what is an abhorrent act.
For a start, it's ravishingly filmed - joyous west coast sunsets, punctuated by countless shots of a rural arcadia. Secondly, an obscenely engaging chill-out soundtrack wafts by as Devor recreates Pinyan's unnatural passing.
Two "zoophiles" who joined the dead man for his sexual kicks recount how the group drifted together, an animal rights worker offers her less-than-sympathetic penny's-worth, while actors are deployed to bring taped interviews to life.
The result eerily amounts to a non-sensational equine love affair, and a special plea for tolerance for what most would regard as an incomprehensibly degenerate act.
However, suspicions remain that Devor was more than a little selective about what he left out - the fact that the ring videotaped themselves horsin' around does suggest a salacious rather than romantic driving force.
It's certainly an oddity…but probably one that you wouldn't want to watch more than once. Neigh, neigh and thrice neigh.
Tim Evans
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