Beyond Vaginadome: “The Return Of Post-Apocalyptic Cowgirls”

You can have your Mad Maxes and umpteen resettings of MacBeth; Me? When I envision a postapocalyptic future, I want to know the queers survived.

The Return of Post-Apocalyptic Cowgirls

Studio: Bleu Productions
Director: Maria Beatty
Starring: Arcana, Billy Rough, Surgeon Scofflaw, Sophia St. James
Music by Lydia Lunch and John Zorn

"The sins of the flesh are just a sacrifice to Venus."

In a dusty pueblo dooryard outside Bisbee, AZ, be-turquoised desert domme Surgeon Scofflaw spanks her Boi Friday Billy Rough and then sodomizes her for what, in my opinion, was a crappy job chopping wood.

This is the opening scene to Maria Beatty's "The Return of Post Apocalyptic Cowgirls," a series of exchanges opening a window on the world of sex in places with saguaros nearby. We hear the desert wind, see dust devils in the distance, and imagine there must be some sex-positive or otherwise Libertarian reason reason none of these performers can bear to live adjacent to a Del Taco or galleria.

Scofflaw and Rough have a charming relationship and, even after this initial hiccup, we get the feeling that Scofflaw is tough but fair. When the duo encounter pale shopkeeper Arcana soaping up her washboard, why, Scofflaw saws on a 3-string violin while she lets Rough go at the new prize.

But the tide turns for everyone when the three embark on a vision quest to a Tucson airplane salvage yard. There Rough is punished for taking too many liberties and Scofflaw herself is taken down a peg by Sophia St. James, desert wanderer. But the two fist and piss their way into a reconciliation.

"The Return of Post-Apocalyptic Cowgirls" is undoubtedly an ensemble movie, like an experimental theatre piece mounted on a masive canvas. This vision of "what the world will look like when queers rule it" doesn't offer much hope to breeders like me, but to a fan of porn movies with a narrative, a vision, and a cast that looks like it's having a great time, it's perfect.

It's also a treat to see that Surgeon Scofflaw graduated from cramped AMC Spirits to aeroplanes in her life of fisting crime.

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