Linda Lovelace - Out of Bondage
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When Ordeal became a national bestseller in 1980 it was an event that had meaning beyond the success of a single book. It is clear now that it was one of the early signs of a new awareness that the sexual revolution was not all that it first seemed. Some of its results now include growing awareness of sexual exploitation, battered women and child abuse. The author of Ordeal was swamped by letters and calls from women who immediately understood her story from having suffered similar experiences.
Written frankly, openly and in a style that struck such a chord in the heart of American public, Out of Bondage is an important addition to Linda Lovelace Marchianos story. In it Linda gives details of the agony she suffered in facing the public with her story the first time.
Tell me, Linda, what in your background led you to a concentration camp? is the ironical but extremely apt sentence that Gloria Steinem used to describe the new ordeal that Linda faced on television. She had to sit in a court room where a judge arbitrarily insisted on a screening of Deep Throat, for evidence, and she had to live as a person in fear for her life, on the run from men who had made millions of dollars from her degradation.
Linda makes clear that the dirty movie business is very much a dirty business. The people who run it, with the typical arrogance of real criminals, routinely enforce a form of slavery on its performers.
But things are a lot different for Linda now. She has had the warm support of feminists such as Gloria Steinem and Susan Brownmiller and she has participated in the campaigns of Women Against Pornography. She has even had the satisfaction of seeing some of her former tormentors arrested and punished by the law.
She has also had the warmth and portection of her marriage. Much of Out of Bondage is, in fact, a love story. Here Linda tells how she finally was able to share the burden of her past with her husband Larry. It was not easy. Larry is the kind of man who tells another man to get away from his wife, not caring that the man happens to be mafia boss Joe Colombo. But much of what happened was too tough even for him.
Linda, in her candid, unaffected way, andmits that she had much more to learn after she set out to control her own life, and she is still learning. In Ordeal she wrote, I could be happy just vacuuming my home. In this book she tells us, Well, that was the truth. Then. The truth now is that it is much more important to her that she is not totally dependent on anyone. Instead of vacuuming the house she prefers the picture of herself testifying before the Senate Subcommittee investigating the effect of pornography on women and children, bringing her message to the world.
Following publication of her book Ordeal, Linda Marchiano traveled extensively, speaking out against pornography in all parts of the country. The story of her victimization caught the attention of many feminist leaders who have since become her friend. Linda is particularly concerned with helping other women who have suffered from coercion and commercial sexual exploitation. She lives in a quiet Long Island community with her husband and two children, a son and a daughter.
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