"When you see the movie Deep Throat, you are watching me being raped," she said.

[redqueen]

"It is a crime that movie is still showing. Chuck kept a gun in his pocket and would click the trigger, letting me know what would happen if I did not look convincing."

Deep Throat cost $30,000 to make back in 1972 and it made more than $600 million dollars, making it the most lucrative film ever made. Linda Boreman only got a paltry $1,200 out of it. But her ex-husband and his mafia buddies sure as hell lived large. They suffered none of the health consequences to their bodies and damage to their psyches that the women they chewed up and spit out in their filthy industry did and continue to do. In her middle-aged years, Linda Susan Boreman suffered a double mastectomy as a direct result of the “boob jobs” and silicone injections that she was coerced into getting by the men who profited handsomely off of the degradation and abuse of her body for other men’s entertainment.”

The people who can't seem to stop spewing the word 'consent' as if they have any deeper understanding of what it means beyond the frighteningly facile 'well there's no cops there! she'd be screaming no if she didn't want it! she signed a contract! she got paid! so it must be legal and she wanted it so shut up lol!' kind of shit... well I'll just stop there. Don't want to get a post hidden.


(Oops, this was supposed to be a reply to the "Lovelace" thread.)

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1. Do you have a link, redqueen? I'd like to read the rest and show it to

a couple of people I know. Thanks

[redqueen]

3. I just saw it on tumblr.

The quotes from her are from her testimony during an official inquiry of the sex industry in 1986.

[enough]

4. The quote and links to her testimony appear on her Wikipedia page.

Lots of information there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lovelace

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With the publication of Ordeal in 1980, Boreman joined the feminist anti-pornography movement. At a press conference announcing Ordeal, she leveled many of the above-noted accusations against Traynor in public for the first time. She was joined by supporters Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, Gloria Steinem, and members of Women Against Pornography. Boreman spoke out against pornography, stating that she had been abused and coerced. She spoke before feminist groups, at colleges, and at government hearings on pornography.

In 1986, Boreman published Out of Bondage, a memoir focusing on her life after 1974. She testified before the 1986 Attorney General's Commission on Pornography in New York City, stating, "When you see the movie Deep Throat, you are watching me being raped. It is a crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my head the entire time." Following Boreman's testimony for the Meese Commission, she gave lectures on college campuses, decrying what she described as callous and exploitative practices in the pornography industry.[15][16]

In The Other Hollywood, Boreman said she felt "used" by the anti-pornography movement. "Between Andrea Dworkin and Kitty MacKinnon, they've written so many books, and they mention my name and all that, but financially they've never helped me out. When I showed up with them for speaking engagements, I'd always get five hundred dollars or so. But I know they made a few bucks off me, just like everybody else."[17]

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[seabeyond]

2. ooops? ya. point. and far from the only.i believe we have had the conversation and our pro porn

simply dismiss what the woman says. only listen if it validates position on porn. where is that picture of the litttle boy with fingers in the ear

[historylovr]

5. I read her autobiography years ago.

Very disturbing stuff. The people spewing how harmless porn is should read it, too. Not that it would make it past their shields of denial.

[seattledo]

10. Exactly

That's why CONservatives are always so pro-porn.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. I wish this had been a reply to that thread. I know it can stand alone but, together it is even

more powerful. There are some women on this board who aspire to be just like Linda. Linda is their role model. really? really.

[ismnotwasm]

7. A clitoris in my throat?

The source of my sexual pleasure? Uh, no thank you.


OT, but one of my pet peeves are those supposedly romantic beach scenes where a man and a woman are making out on a beach with the waves crashing around them. I tell my husband we ever do that he's on the bottom because I don't want sand in my neithers. He can deal with it.

[seabeyond]

8. And I always thought it assumed he would be on the bottom. So fuckin lmao. Lol. Nt

[intaglio]

11. Watch out for alfrsco field sex as well

A gay mate told me of the time he was enjoying the fresh air and intimate contact and then realised he had picked up an oat grain (spikey) under his foreskin.

He needed to have it extracted by a nurse ....

[MadrasT]

12. Yeah I did the beach thing exactly once.

Like so many other romanticized things... it wasn't nearly as much fun as it seemed like it would be. Fucking sand... ugh.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. tacking this on for more info about the film that is out on DVD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125532608