Porter - Inside Linda Lovelaces Deep Throat

WHOWASLINDA LOVELACE?

A Sex-Crazed Nymphomanic? Or a Tragic Victim of Rape and Abuse?

Deep Throat, strange as it may seem, changed Americas sexual attitudes more than anything since the first Kinsey Report in 1948. It altered the lives of everyone associated with it. It super-charged the feminist movement. It gave the Mafia its most lucrative business since Prohibition. And it changed the nations views on obscenity forever.

Journalist Joe Bob Briggs

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Somebody told me that the two best-known names of 1973 were Henry Kissinger and Linda Lovelace. We each made notable breakthroughs: The distinguished Mr. Kissinger helped open the doors to Red China and Russia. I opened my throat for all the world to enjoy Ive learned to do things with my mouth and my vagina that few women anywhere can ever hope to achieve.

Linda Lovelace

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Norman Mailer and I had a competitive relationship. Frankly, he wanted to be Hemingway but never made it. He always had to top one of my stories. One night at a party in Brooklyn, he told me that he came home, woke up his wife, and bragged to her that he had just fucked a black drag queen. He also told me that one night he hired Linda Lovelace, who brought him to three climaxes without removing his penis from her throat. Oh, that Norman.

Author Gore Vidal

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My initiation into prostitution was a gang rape by five men, arranged by Chuck Traynor. It was the turning point in my life. He threatened to shoot me with the pistol if I didnt go through with it. I had never experienced anal sex before, and it ripped me apart. They treated me like an inflatable plastic doll, picking me up and moving me here and there. They spread my legs this way and that, shoving their things at me and into me. They were playing musical chairs with parts of my body. I had never been so frightened, disgraced, and humiliated in my life. I felt like garbage.

Linda Lovelace

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The biggest status symbol this year is to have your cock sucked by Linda Lovelace. You guys had better book a date with her, or else youll no longer be the Kings of Cool.

Sammy Davis, Jr ., to fellow Rat Packers at theSands Hotel in Las Vegas in February, 1973

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Sammy Davis,Jr. was subject to bouts of debauchery and dissipation that nearly wrecked his life and threatened to compromise his career. For instance, he spent periods of his life hanging out with the denizens of the hard-core porn industry and with practitioners of Satanism. He even suggested marriage to Linda Lovelace when she was at the height of her career, cruising Hollywood and Las Vegas as a sex toy for the very rich and famous.

Gerald Early , from The Sammy Davis, Jr. Reader

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I have met stars who were my idols when I was littleElvis Presley, Warren Beatty, Hugh Hefner, Elizabeth Taylor, Ann-Margret, and Frank Sinatraand Ive been keeping a diary.

Linda Lovelace

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Steve McQueens seduction of Linda Boreman marked a turning point in her life. Upon the sensational release of Deep Throat, she became the reigning Queen of Porn. Not only that, she became the party favor [her words] to movie stars, sports figures, one U.S. senator, and one vice president of the United States. In all, she estimated that she performed fellatio on more than fifty household names who range from Frank Sinatra to Joe DiMaggio, from Elvis Presley to Desi Arnaz, from Marlon Brando to Johnny Carson.

Columnist James Bacon at a stag roast for Ed McMahon in Palm Springs, 1978

The reason I attended a showing of Deep Throat in Los Angeles was because I suspected that Desi had had a fling with her. Frankly, I wanted to see the girls technique. I didnt want to lose Gary Morton the way Id lost Desi. After I saw the movie, I knew I could never top her. You see, I have this gag reflex.

Lucille Ball to Ethel Merman

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I went to see Deep Throat at a movie theater on Duval Street in Key West. I dont know what all the excitement is about. I can swallow bigger cocks than that.

Truman Capote to Tennessee Williams

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I was the Queen of Porn and John C. Holmes was the King of Porn and known for his 13 inch penis. A private film collector offered me $5,000 on a bet, claiming that he knew for sure I couldnt swallow the whole thing. He paid Holmes $1,000 and I won the $5,000. Yes, indeed, I did it! Down to the last inch. That was a private film. Porn collectors should try to find a copy of Exotic French Fantasies if they want to see John and me together.

Linda Lovelace

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Linda Lovelace has the air of fresh carnality, the air of thoroughly debauched innocence, the sense of a woman exploring the limits of sexual expression and feeling. Linda Lovelace is the girl next door grown up into a shameless woman.

Kenneth Turan and Stephen F. Zito in their book, Sinema

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Linda kept staying at my house, and I was having sex with the three or four other girls living with me. We had a giant waterbed, and Linda just sort of became one of the girls on the giant waterbed. She now says that the orgies went on there were actually setups for hooker deals, and that she hated that. She said Id beat her up if she didnt do it, but that was bullshit. Everybody just got stoned and partied.

Chuck Traynor in The Other Hollywood

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Giving more head, she became franticher tongue and lips were everywhere. Then I felt the muscles in the back of her throat opening up. Her head lowered over me. Suddenly, I could feel my cock go right into her throat. I couldnt believe she ate the whole thing. My cock and balls and half my pubic bush were all engulfed in that cavernous, deep throat of hers.

Harry Reems , co-star of Deep Throat

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Throughout most of the 1970s, I was used as a sex toy in New York, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, and Hollywood. I was treated like a cheap whore. Once Id satisfied a client, I was shown the door. Dozens of celebritiesmostly men, but also Katharine Hepburnwanted to date me. For the most part, they requested only one thing. My specialty.

Linda Lovelace in a speech before feminists in Denver, 1984

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Imagine: A major adult star like Linda Lovelace in a bestiality movie. It was very graphic. Linda is indeed having sex with the dog in nearly every position one can imagine in a porn flick. Bestiality is illegal in most states now, so one must take care to view it. It was made in a time when things were more liberal.

Csmineatlasts online review of Dogfucker

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In a memoir, I wrote about a famous movie star and his son who did all sorts of perverted things at the same time with me. My publisher wouldnt let me reveal their names. But I can tell you who they were. Paul Newman and his son, Scott. Okay, Newman does a lot for charity, and I give him credit for that, but hes not so squeaky clean. He can get down and dirty. Ive gone to bed with enough Hollywood stars to know that their image is one thing, reality the other.

Linda Lovelace

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All of us do that kind of stuffbut not all of us want to be on camera.

Shirley MacLaine , after viewing Deep Throat

If youre having a male sexual experience, after you have your orgasm, your next impulse is not to bend down and look over and watch someones scrotum pounding against someones shaved beaver or whatever.

Jack Nicholson during an interview with Screw magazine regarding his viewing of Deep Throat

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By the time I got around to sampling the specialty of Linda Lovelace, her throat was too loose. I turned the bitch over and fucked her in the ass. She was real tight.

Gangster Mickey Cohen to Liz Renay

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Linda Lovelace said she was forced into sex. Like hell she was. She couldnt get enough of me. She wore me out, and Im what is known as a sex maniac.