When it comes to modern porn, it seems everyone can find something to their liking. It might take a while, certain trends do infiltrate, as they do in all media. And God knows we have suffered through an avalanche of “celebrity sex tapes” to last us a lifetime (really, who makes money better for a Vivid or a Wicked then naked celebs doing the nasty?). But in time even porn producers catch on to what the wide and wonderful audience out there might want to see.
Thus the rise in popularity and the sudden availability of queer porn.
Online and even DVD porn makers have delivered girl-on-girl and guy-on-guy triple-X entertainment for years. But when gay women and gay men search for authenticity in what they are watching, very often they want more than just some hetero director’s idea of what straight men like to see when two women get together, or bi men coupling. With all the outlets available for one to quickly click by, this authenticity is really what sells, for queer and trans folk as well as for anybody else. This is why movie’s directed by and starring queer and trans folks, no matter their gender, are suddenly rising in popularity.
Everybody these days is having their voices heard, or at least talking louder than they ever have before, why wouldn’t porn reflect this change?
One of the better outlets out there presently is The Crash Pad Series, an Award-Winning feminist, queer porn site based on the famous The Crash Pad movie. Shine Louise Houston, the main director, and producer here, offers viewers find a broad range of femme on femme scenes, be they featuring genderqueer or trans-masculine or transwomen performers (and a whole lot more), engaging in strap-on sex, BDSM, gender play, etc. And always, as the CrashPadSeries.com site boasts, the action here includes authentic orgasms.
There is that word, ‘authenticity’ again.
Yes, gay men and anyone who identifies as a man can find their counterpart of filmed entertainment on the web, but Houston’s fare is considered the gold standard in this regard. Maybe the time has come for queer women, whether one was born a woman or presently identifies as one, to have their say over what has always been a male dominated, and certainly a hetero male–dominated field?
Whatever the case may be, it certainly seems porn is starting to get hip and serious to all people looking to enjoy a little visual naughty entertainment.
