We open on a random dude – maybe Jay Ashley – on the phone. 

Dad: “I can’t believe she’s been gone over a week now. Have you talked to all her friends?” 
Mom: “Yes, I’ve checked everywhere.”
Dad: “Have the police called?”
Mom: “I checked with them this morning but there’s no news.”

Dad expresses regret over arguing with her, presumably his daughter, but they don’t have any other info. We then cut to Kitty Marie, who is asleep against the side of her suitcase at the top of a staircase in some urban area that is probably just the back patio of a porn producer’s home. 

Kitty, like most runaways sleeping outdoors, is dressed in her sexiest schoolgirl outfit. 

Herschel Savage comes into view holding a lunch pail and sits down next to her, which wakes her up. They introduce themselves and Herschel explains he works the graveyard shift and comes out here to eat his lunch.

He pulls out a paper plate and some kind of taco, and from the way he pulls it out, the paper plate was in there sideways and the taco was just lying unwrapped on the bottom of the cooler. That’s fucking disgusting. He offers her some, and she takes a teeny-tiny bite off the end of the tortilla. 

Herschel: “You look really hungry. Where do you live?” 
Kitty: “Nowhere right now.” 
Herschel: “What?”
Kitty: “I ran away with my boyfriend. I thought he – we got into an argument a couple of days ago. He left. I was hoping he’d be back.”
Herschel: “You mean you’ve been sleeping here the last couple of days?”
Kitty: “Yes sir.”
Herschel: “Why don’t you just go home?”
Kitty: “I can’t. My dad…he just wouldn’t understand.”
Herschel: “Well, you can’t stay here. C’mon, I’ll take you home with me.”

We go back to Dad, who’s dialing on a super-old phone. He asks to speak to the private investigator. The secretary is a bit annoying, but he gets through and explains that his daughter is missing. 

Back to Herschel’s house, he puts Kitty on the couch and tells her to get some rest, and doesn’t even offer her a blanket. What an asshole. Kitty then, like most girls who are sleeping in a stranger’s house without a blanket, strips down to her bra and panties and curls up on the couch to go to sleep. After a quick title card informing us ‘Later that night’ the music turns creepy and haunting. 

We get a creepy shot through the door of her sleeping, and then a silhouette of Herschel in his boxers watching her sleep. Major Edward Cullen vibes here.

He then comes up and starts touching on her without permission. No. NO!

Kitty: “What do you think you’re doing?”
Herschel: “You know what I’m doing.”
Kitty: “I’m leaving.”

Kitty grabs her things and gets up to leave, but Herschel grabs her (!!) by the arm. 

Herschel: “Nothing’s for free, [Kitty].”
Kitty: “Fuck you.”

Kitty storms out, but returns a few moments later. 

Kitty: “I forgot, I have nowhere to go.”

I mean. You could go back to the stairs. It will probably be slightly less immediately rapey than here in Herschel’s house. 

Herschel pulls her into his lap, takes off her bra, and begins stroking her body and all that. And Kitty does not look happy about it.

Then they fuck. It’s pretty standard stuff, nothing to write home about. Except here’s the thing: Kitty remains upset throughout it. Yeah, she does some moaning as she’s being fucked, but her face is sullen the rest of the way. 

Now, we know porn has massive problems with its depictions of consent. The setup here is very fucked up – Herschel picked up a homeless runaway, molested her in her sleep, grabbed her arm, implied blackmail with the ‘nothing’s free’, and is now exploiting her situation to get her to sleep with him. That’s very fucked up, but ‘exploiting a woman in a desperate situation’ is an incredibly common porn plot. However, usually after things get going, the woman turns out to actually be super into it and there’s an enthusiastic sex scene. Your standard bullshit.

Here, they didn’t. And that was a deliberate choice. Kitty Marie was in 105 pornos, this isn’t her first rodeo, and I checked out some of her other work, and in other things she’s smiling and enthusiastic about it all. So that’s a director and actor choice: your character, in this porno, is upset and angry about being blackmailed into sex, and you should play it in a way that you hate everything that’s happening.

That’s…weird. And fucked up. I’m sure I’ve seen something like this before, although nothing really egregious comes to mind. Maybe Destroyer of Worlds, although Elena had actual agency there, and also played like she was enjoying the sex, when it came down to it.

Maybe it’s time for a new porn category: Dark Porn Plots. 

Kissing: Yes

Oral Sex Reciprocity Scale:

• Fellatio: 2:18
• Cunnilingus: 3:09