[2257 disclaimer, BTS Intro, setting up]

(laughing offscreen)

OFFSCREEN: Alright – I’m good? Okay. And action.

LOUISE: Hi.

(giggling)

LYRIC: That’s our intro.

(laughter)

OFFSCREEN: From there take it wherever you want to go!

(laughter)

LYRIC: Yeah. Well because then I’m going to pat my lap and then just go from there.

OFFSCREEN: Okay. Stay right there for a moment and (unintelligible)

(laughter)

OFFSCREEN: That was awesome!

[Cut to interview 01:03]

LOUISE: How did you enjoy the shoot today?

LYRIC: I liked it a lot. I had a really good time. I was actually thinking about it because I felt nervous, and so it was like ‘oh it’s a new person, and I’m maybe doing things that I haven’t done on film before.’ But I really loved it. I felt very turned on, and I felt very present, and you’re a lot of fun. You have a lot of great energy, so I had a great time.

(giggling)

LOUISE: Thank you.

LYRIC: Yeah. How did you enjoy the shoot today?

LOUISE: I really enjoyed the shoot today. I was more nervous about if I was going to be nervous once we started, but I feel like I wasn’t nervous at all and it felt very – like in the middle of the scenes, it felt really natural. It didn’t feel like I was ‘oh now I have to get fucked’ or anything weird like that.

(laughter)

LYRIC: Okay!

LOUISE: Which was cool. Yeah! And I had a lot of fun. I felt like there was a lot of chemistry, which I was also a little worried about because we hadn’t met in person or talked, really. Talking on the internet is so much different than meeting up. Because you can talk on the internet and send paragraphs about how your kinks match up and things like that, and then you can meet up and it can be just awkward and weird.

LYRIC: Right.

LOUISE: And I’m really glad it wasn’t!

LYRIC: Yeah. No, me too.

[Cut to scene 02:44]

(Louise is sitting on Lyric’s lap, kissing)

(laughter)

LYRIC: You’re squirmy!

(Lyric slaps Louise on the chest several times)

LOUISE: Yeah.

LYRIC: Yeah?

LOUSE: Yes, your highness.

LYRIC: Oh yeah, good.

[Cut to interview 03:10]

LOUISE: What was challenging about the shoot for you?

LYRIC: Yeah, I guess feeling… well it’s funny. So when you emailed me about what I like to be called, a lot of my kinky names that I’m working with right now are very particular to me and my partner. So I have some that I’m really used to, and so I was like ‘these are the things.’ But I was wanting to try a different dynamic, because I’m kind of a princess bottom in a lot of ways. So it was challenging to try to be like – I was kind of trying to play with a princess top, but now I’m like ‘oh these are all these things I would have done differently,’ and would have been like ‘let me examine you,’ and I would have had a bustle skirt. I don’t know, there’s just a lot of stuff – it’s like I’m thinking about it, and I like the character of your highness, and I want to develop it, but I feel like it was very fresh today, so I felt a challenge to be not just ‘toppy in action’ but ‘toppy in personality’ because I felt like I was feeling you out and wanted to be gentle, and interactive, and check in about things. So I felt challenged by trying to stay in that mode, and also get to know you.

LOUISE: Yeah.

LYRIC: So that was what was challenging for me. Any new thoughts about that?

LOUISE: So recently, I have been spending a little bit too much time in high heels, and the ball of my foot is really sore. And, I mean I guess it was an option to not wear them, but it also kind of wasn’t.

LYRIC: It wasn’t for you!

(laughter)

LOUISE: So I think that was a challenge. Because there were brief moments when my foot was a little bit sore. But that’s about it. Those shoes are really nice, they’re really great shoes. It wasn’t too much of an issue.

(laughter)

LOUISE: And we weren’t really on our feet that much, so there’s that.

[Cut to scene 05:30]

(Lyric joins Louise on the bed)

LYRIC: Lay down. Thank you.

(Lyric spreads Louise’s legs, rubs her thighs)

LYRIC: You think you want to take them off just for me?

LOUISE: Yes.

LYRIC: Yeah? Okay.

(Lyric removes Louise’s underwear)

[Cut to interview 06:05]

LYRIC: What are your safe sex practices and why?

LOUISE: So I think it’s really important for me, and kind of for people in general, to get tested for STIs when they have a new partner, even if they’re having safe sex. Just in general, in case something slips through, in case something doesn’t quite work right, or completely. And I hold that as something that I always adhere to. And one of my doctors even scolded me for coming in and getting tested – which was rude. And I was pissed about it.

LYRIC: Oh, that’s not good.

LOUISE: Yeah, I was really upset about it. I had to battle to get tested for HPV one time. Because I was only twenty, but I had potentially been exposed. So that is really, really important to me. And eventually she did it, which was nice.

(giggling)

LYRIC: Medical advocacy is difficult but also important.

LOUISE: Yeah, exactly. And also, frequently checking in with partners, even if you had sex earlier that day, even if you’re in the middle of fucking. Checking in, like ‘is this still okay? Does this still feel good? I know that was great yesterday but do you still like that spot?’ Things like that; very important.

LYRIC: Yeah, I think that’s really important to consider that a safe sex practice too. How you’re communicating – whether or not it feels safe too.

LOUISE: How about you? Do you have any safe sex practices?

LYRIC: I have lots!

(laughter)

LYRIC: I feel like I actually have new information from last time I answered this question, which is cool. My partner and I became fluid bonded which is nice. So we still both get routinely tested no matter what, but we specifically use protection of all kinds with other partners. And if I have shoots, I think we’re still communicating about how shoots happen. Because some shoots make make sense for a lot of barriers, and some don’t as much. But I definitely want to be using barriers in all other practices with all other people. Barriers are becoming more and more exciting to me, which is fun. Being able to figure out ways that they feel good, and ways that we’ve been programmed to think about them as not fun, or a pain, or as ‘they don’t feel good and in the way.’ So I’m kind of undoing that, which is really nice. Also, consent and communication, and checking in, and body checks. Does anything hurt today? How does this feel? What kind of a headspace are you in? Things like that. Yeah.

[Cut to scene 09:22]

Louise and Lyric are preparing to use a vibrator]

LOUISE: Do you want me to put the condom on?

LYRIC: Yeah. I just like to see it buzz. Do it with the buzzing.

(laughter, squealing)

LOUISE: It’s inside out. Look at that.

(the condom breaks)

LOUISE: Oh no I broke it!

LYRIC: It’s okay! Maybe the buzzing makes it harder. That’s just a theory.

(laughter)

LYRIC: Do you want to leave that on there? It looks funny.

(laughter)

LYRIC: We’re going to have a really good bloopers reel!

(laughter)

LYRIC: In case you’re excited about that!

(laughter)

(Someone offscreen hands Louise a new condom)

LYRIC: Yeah I really want to see a compilation with a soundtrack.

OFFSCREEN: We’ve done it since 2011.

[Cut to interview 10:16]

LYRIC: If you have done porn, why do you continue to do it? Or if this is your first time, why did you choose to do it today?

LOUISE: So this was my first time doing a double-person video. Which I’m really excited about, and I had a great time. And I think I continue to do porn because, other than loving to have kinds of sex that aren’t generally represented in a lot of porn for people who typically look like me… I’m kind of a toppy-switch. Today I bottomed, which was very refreshing and nice. But I feel like usually, a lot of people who are topping are large, macho men topping small, dainty feminine people. So I really think it’s wonderful when I top because I’m not even five feet, and I’m tiny and I’m cute.

(laughter)

LOUISE: So I think that’s different and pleasant. And also because a lot of checking in takes place. And that’s an important thing that you don’t generally see in a lot of porn. So I wanted to come to Crash Pad specifically because I thought that was really special, the way barriers are promoted, and are completely okay, and you’re not going to potentially be told ‘oh sorry, we actually don’t want to cast you because you want to use a condom’ is really important and amazing. How about you, why do you continue to do porn?

LYRIC: I … just every reason. I’m trying to figure out how to not keep articulating the same reason over and over again because the biggest reason why I think I got into porn, specifically video, because I was doing still stuff for a long time, is because I wanted to see my body move. I wanted to force myself to see my body in all of the ways that it appears in life, rather than just like the ways that I can catch it like a wild animal in the mirror, and try to make it do something that I want. I was like ‘okay, well if I’m fucking, I’m going to see my body alive.’ And I think it’s really important for me to be able to do that. And for anybody to be able to really see their body living, and to be able to imagine that their body is a live body that has sex that’s worth fucking and being fucked. No matter who you are, or what you look like, or how your body feels, or even if you want to be fucked that day. You can watch something and feel embodied by who you see represented – I think that’s really important. And I just like it, I don’t know, it just matches something about my personality and lifestyle. It just feels good. I like being a porn performer, so I think I’m just going to keep doing it!

(laughter)

OFFSCREEN: And any closing statements? Anything that the previous questions didn’t address that you’d really like to say on film about porn in general or today (inaudible)…

LYRIC: [???]

[Cut to scene 14:00]

(Louise is using the vibrator with Lyric who is reclined, moaning)

(laughter)

[Cut to interview 14:29]

LOUISE: Something that I wish I would have said when all asked me ‘why are you choosing to do porn?’ is that I think it’s really important that queer porn is made by and for queer people, and not from straight cis-guys. Which I think a lot of porn that’s labeled as ‘lesbian porn’ is made for. And I think that queer interaction is largely made for straight men. So I think that’s really special about it also. And I just wanted to say that I thought it was really special when I was riding your cock.

(laughter)

LYRIC: I’m just so glad that you said it was really special. It felt really special to me too!

(laughter)

LYRIC: Yes!

LOUISE: How about you? Any closing remarks?

LYRIC: No, I had a lot of fun today. And I think you’re absolutely right about making porn the way we want to see it, and not having it be mitigated by anyone else. Also everyone should ask me questions and send them to my advice column! I have an advice column on Crash Pad and it’s called Slumber Party! And you should email ‘listentolyric@gmail.com,’ it’s now going to be in the East Bay Express. That’s my little promo, heart Lyric Seal.

(laughter)

LOUISE: Nice.

OFFSCREEN: Awesome, thank you!

(inaudible)

LYRIC: Thank you for shooting this with me today.

[2257 disclaimer]