Reviled by many and celebrated by others, the surviving children of those involved speak about a complicated legacy. I t intrigued celebrities, mortified conservatives, divided feminists and changed pornography forever. Deep Throat, which premiered in New York 50 years ago on Sunday, is probably the most controversial — and profitable — film of all time. The X-rated movie starred Linda Lovelace as a sexually unfulfilled woman whose long-lost clitoris is found by a doctor buried in her oesophagus, prompting long, surreal and, some would say, boring scenes of fellatio with a series of men. Deep Throat provoked a fierce backlash from an unlikely alliance of feminists and religious groups and drew scrutiny from the FBI.
The Harrowing Post-‘Lovelace’ Story of Linda Lovelace
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Linda Lovelace: Inside the life of the 'Deep Throat' star - CNN
It's an unlikely distinction given that Lovelace -- by her own estimation -- only spent a total of two and a half weeks working in the adult film industry. More Videos New film explores 'Deep Throat' star Story highlights More than 10 years after her death, Linda Lovelace remains a porn icon Over the course of her career, she embraced and denounced "Deep Throat" Some, like Larry Flynt, believe Lovelace was used as a sex slave by her husband. But those two and a half weeks included shooting "Deep Throat," the X-rated film that turned into a pop culture phenomenon after its release in
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Deep Throat is a American pornographic film that was at the forefront of the Golden Age of Porn — One of the first pornographic films to feature a plot, character development, and relatively high production values, Deep Throat earned mainstream attention and launched the "porno chic" trend, even though the film was banned in some jurisdictions and was the subject of obscenity trials. Lovelace later wrote that she was coerced and sexually assaulted during the production, and that the film is genuine rape pornography. Linda Lovelace , a sexually frustrated woman, asks her friend Helen for advice on how to achieve an orgasm.
Photos from negatives and transparencies have surfaced and are on exhibit. Today, "Deep Throat" is most associated with Woodward and Bernstein's anonymous news source in the Watergate scandal. But then, the plot-driven story of a woman who could achieve orgasm through only oral sex, was a cultural moment that forever changed Americans' view of pornography, according to curators at the Museum of Sex in New York City. Some have said, in retrospect, that it improved marriages.
