Inside Linda Lovelace's Deep Throat: Degradation, Porno Chic, and the Rise of Feminism
Darwin Porter
Language: English
Pages: 640
ISBN: 1936003333
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The notorious Linda Lovelace was America's first Queen of Porn, presiding over a fast-developing multi-billion-dollar film industry during the decadent 1970s. Her movie, Deep Throat, redefined the nation's views on obscenity and was credited with changing America's sexual attitudes more than anything since the 1948 Kinsey Report. But at decade's end, Linda, in a complete about-face, emerged as one of the more compelling voices in the feminist movement, denouncing the degradations of her cinematic past.
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exercises to keep them buffed, the young men agreed to submit to being fellated at least once a day. Very few cash-strapped bodybuilders ever turned the Earl down. Arriving at the Earl’s sumptuous villa, Linda likened the building to the abode of a Sheik from Morocco. “It was straight from the movies,” she said. Ushered inside, they were given two bedrooms in which to freshen up and make themselves ready for a lunch at one o’clock. “Gerard and I had lunch alone on a terrace overlooking the
still have your tonsils, Miss Lovelace?” Since Linda had been such a smash hit with (mostly male) college students, Winters booked her on a tour of some two dozen college campuses, including Northeastern University in Boston, where she participated in a debate on pornography. She charged $4,000 for each appearance. Winters wrote all her lines. On every campus she advocated sexual freedom, which was a very popular idea with the students. For the film industry, Linda had some advice—“Make love,
mainstream men who flocked in droves to see the film?” In London’s The Guardian, Jill Tweedie wrote: “What no one questions or contemplates or gives any thought to at all, is simply this: Never mind that Linda Lovelace did what she did—why, why, a thousand times why did her husband, Chuck Traynor, do what he did? Why did other men, including celebrities, do what they did, with his contrivance?” Beyond press critiques, the big question was what would be the reaction of the limited numbers of men
her execution by a firing squad. After embalming, it was donated to the Museum of Anatomy in Paris, which placed it in storage, at least until 1954. During the process of moving artifacts from that museum to a new location, the head disappeared. Amazingly, its theft was not discovered until 2000, when archivists were compiling an inventory of the museum’s possessions. Today, the head is believed to rest in the private collection of a billionaire in Connecticut. *** After all the guests had
bloodied back. To Linda, it looked ridiculous, causing her to wonder what kind of man would get turned on by this obviously posed still. Surely, the allure of the picture derived from whatever fantasies the viewer brought to it—perhaps a mental replication of the beatings that had caused the whiplashes that had disfigured the backside of their victims. As he arranged the onstage props around them, Cording said, “Our customers range from merchants who hawk diamonds to U.N. diplomats from Nigeria.
