Trinity Bellwoods Park is no stranger to Bacchanalia, but an orgy planned for the summer solstice may test its limits.

So far, almost 1,000 people have RSVP’d to the June 21 event on Facebook, which is organized by the mysterious but bureaucratic-sounding Trinity Bellwoods Orgy Committee.

The Star reached out to the committee on Facebook, and although they refused to identify themselves, a person did respond from the committee’s account.

“The contemporary reality of city life is that we have never been so alone despite be [sic] surrounded by so many people,” wrote a person claiming to represent the committee.

“An orgy requires that people engage each other, even as strangers, to work properly. It reacquaints us with not only intimacy itself, but the rules of engagement of intimacy.”

Const. Victor Kwong, a spokesperson for the Toronto police, said police are aware of the planned orgy, and will be monitoring it as the date grows closer. Having sex in a public park is very much illegal — people who do it could be charged with committing an indecent act, Kwong said.

Regardless of whether they get caught, Kwong said it’s definitely, “not considered an approved activity under the parks’ bylaw.”

The city’s bylaw enforcement team is working with the police to monitor the event, and others like it, said Tammy Robbinson, a spokesperson for the city.

This summer, a number of Facebook pages have promised massive parties in public places such as Trinity Bellwoods Park, where 28,000 people have RSVP’d to attend a block party in July. Similar events are also planned in Yonge and Dundas square and Woodbine Beach.

But in the end, Kwong said, it may be a lot of fuss about nothing.

“Many of [these Facebook events] turn out to be hoaxes, many of them turn out to be real events that people just decide not to show up to,” Kwong said.

The plethora of phony events may have made some would-be carousers mistrustful of the event’s intentions.

“Unless we get some answers, I think we should move ahead with a high degree of suspicion, and a moderate amount of caution, in addition to a sprinkling of skepticism, and a pinch of dubiosity,” said one Facebook event member.

Kara DesBarres, who works at the downtown sex club Oasis Aqualounge, said she and her staff have heard of the orgy, but that people in Toronto’s kink community are mystified as to who the organizers are or if the event is legitimate.

“We are confused as well,” she said.

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But event organizers insist it’s the real deal.

“It's very real,” wrote someone from the committee’s Facebook account. “It's frustrating since people genuinely want to come together as a community and even as a city.”