Lesbians, civil rights infringement, and The Crash Pad

Even as San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsome’s “It’s gonna happen; whether you like it or not!” pro-same-sex marriage soundbite was played over and over to incite fear among a homophobic populace to ban gay marriage in California, lesbians in a Bay Area apartment were secretly taping each other in direct violation of their civil rights.

Blowfish Video’s The Crash Pad series is an especially compelling collection of vignettes about an apartment with a finite number of keys but an endless supply of Sapphic hookups that, like Netflix rentals, are limited to a few units at a time.

While a shadowy figure videotapes the women’s lusty encounters and reports back to an unseen benefactor, keys to the Crash Pad are well-guarded commodities.

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Ani DiFranco

What’s great about this series is that certain things aren’t explained on purpose, leaving it up to the viewer to wonder who changes the toilet paper, who buys the milk, and who pays the gas bill. Why are the trysts being digitized and uploaded? Who are they being sent to? Maybe it’s you.

If you have ever been to San Francisco, you know that the rafters are dripping with lesbians having sex everywhere. On the trains, in the coffeeshops, in the park. They are as close-knit now as when they landed in 1978’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In San Francisco, if you are not a lesbian, you are Donald Sutherland, and Donald Sutherland is not the person to be in San Francisco, let me tell you. (Brooke Adams is another story.)

Among the Crash Pad‘s visitors are Princess Donna and Lorelei Lee. Following Lee’s de facto retirement from Porn Valley, she has become Lesbiandom’s forbidden fruit bombshell, appearing here and in Madison Young videos as a resident femme temptress, or femmeptress.

“This feels more natural than five guys coming on your face,” said Lee. Ouch.

If you are a straight porn consumer and feel like having your sensibilities upended all the while comforted by a few familiar faces and the confident directing of Shine Louise Houston, buy one of the Crash Pad movies.

Watch The Crash Pad here.

Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Her First Lesbian Sex; Even professionals benefit from dildo etiquette; Being for the benefit of Visual Blurr
See also: Blowfish Video

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