In Search of the Wild Kingdom is from indie auteur Shine Louise Houston, whose earlier releases The Crash Pad

and Superfreak garnered her accolades from feminist porn fans and queers of various persuasions. Like her

previous movies, In Search of the Wild Kingdom is a tour-de- of lesbian sex, featuring lots of hot

butches and femmes from the San Francisco area. This is the pure product. There are no gay-for-pay bottle

blondes with scary fake fingernails engaged in perfunctory open-mouthed tongue kissing here _ except in a

brief, hilarious scene that parodies such moments in mainstream porn movies.

The basic premise is clever and used to very funny effect. A documentary film crew follows around another

documentary film crew as they attempt to film the mating habits of San Francisco lesbians. So In Search of

the Wild Kingdom is a (fake) documentary about a (fake) documentary about (real) lesbians. (Follow all that?)

Imagine one of those National Geographic programs, with cameras watching lions from the distance, only

instead of lions, they're watching lesbians. The fundamental joke is that the people having sex don't notice

the camera crew in their apartment or in the bar, and there's a really funny bit of business with a "decoy

lesbian," a mannequin dressed up and sent out to attract the natives. All that's cute and innovative, but

what about the sex? This is a film made by and for lesbians, but given the tastes of most heterosexual men,

they're likely to enjoy this, too, and it might even dispel some silly misconceptions about how women have

sex. (Short answer: they have sex in all sorts of awesome ways.) The sex scenes are often really intense,

especially a long three-way with two women wearing strap-ons. The most important thing: this is real fucking,

messy, gasping, sweaty, improvisational, impetuous, spirited, and beautiful. It's a very funny mockumentary,

but there's nothing mock about the sex. Don't miss it.

Winner of Best Trans Sex Scene at the 2007 Feminist Porn Awards!