As in Cronenberg's latest films, homosexuality has its place. The director seems to have a weakness for subjects which have it as the icing on the cake. Unlike in Naked Lunch or M. Butterfly, it seems artificial; but, in Crash, what doesn't? In all three films the main characters are heterosexual and only occasionally (in one case even unwittingly) practice lesbian or gay sex. But in Crash this is reduced to a triviality and is only there to breathe new life into a tired heterosexual existance.

It is impossible to judge whether Crash is to be pepped up by lesbian and gay sex, or whether it wants to distance itself from gender-specific sex. In any case, it is not the intention of the film to break the exclusivity of heterosexuality, or else it would have had real lesbian or gay characters.

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