Inside Deep Throat Page #9

of Mr. Traynor's.

I wasn't permitted to go to

the bathroom by myself.

I was never allowed

out of his eyesight.

If he took a shower,

I had to take a shower

with him.

If I did have

any kind of communication

with my friends or my family,

he was on the extension

with a.45

or an M-16

semi-automatic machine gun

pointed at me.

And there are those who say

you can see the bruises

on her in the film.

You tell me if the bruises

are visible in the film.

(Tom Snyder)

How did Linda Lovelace and

Gloria Steinem join forces?

How did the two of you

get together?

(Gloria Steinem)

I saw Linda

on the Phil Donahue Show.

And she was

being questioned by Phil,

who I think is usually

a more sensitive questioner

than he was this time,

uh, and by the audience,

with enormous disbelief.

And I still find it

very hard to believe

that you have become

a changed person.

I had always heard

that to be hypnotized,

you had to be willing.

Is there something about

the way you were raised,

in your view,

that made you

vulnerable to this?

And yet

she was still being asked,

uh, what in her background

had led her to become

essentially a hostage.

(Snyder)

What did lead you

to become a hostage,

if we can-- if we can now

ask the question?

Does it go back beyond that

to your childhood,

that you were

a susceptible person?

No.

See now what you're doing,

you're doing what--what

made me so angry.

You know,

because we don't say

to the hostages in lran:

"What in your-- what in

your background led you

to--to be in that embassy?"

Yeah.

(Snyder)

The situations are not

nearly comparable.

(Steinem)

They are. It's force.

(Damiano)

Linda needed somebody

to tell her what to do.

And as long as

she had somebody

telling her what to do,

she--she was happy.

So when she

made the movie,

she was happy

making the movie.

After the movie,

somebody said,

"Hey, you shouldn't have

made that movie."

So she became unhappy

about making the movie,

which wasn't true.

She was very happy

about making the movie.

(Hopper)

Linda's new fame as

a crusader against pornography

culminated with her testimony

before the Meese Commission

in 1986.

(Lovelace)

My ordeal still goes on.

The film Deep Throat

still shows

and virtually every time

someone watches that movie,

they're watching me

being raped.

(Hopper)

Once again,

the government had set out

to determine

the effect of pornography.

This time,

instead of relying on

scientific data,

they relied on

personal testimony

to prove that pornography

was a social evil.

Well, the other day

my 8-year-old son said to me:

"Mommy,

if this country is so great,

how come people

are still hurting you?"

(Jon Lewis)

It's sort of like

the Oprah Show.

It's, um, much more anecdotal.

Much less professional.

So what Nixon starts

in the '60s and '70s

by stacking the court,

Reagan finishes

with the Meese report.

(reporter)

In its most controversial

finding,

the commission concludes

there is a relationship

between violence

and pornography.

The commission conducted

no scientific studies.

(Hopper)

Finally,

after decades of struggle,

politics triumphed over

pornography.

But the victory was hollow.

The success of Deep Throat

created enormous demand

for hardcore,

that new technology

could now satisfy

and avoid all regulation.

The phenomenal sales of

home videocassette machines

have opened up a new market

for erotic films.

It's a market

that barely existed

a couple of years ago.

But today,

available for play

in these machines

are hardcore pornography.

Gerry Damiano,

I think, really thought

that porn was going to

merge into, kind of,

Hollywood films.

(Annie Sprinkle)

That porn movies

were gonna just get

bigger and bigger budgets

and become more like

feature films

with hardcore sex.

Looked like it was going to

burst itself into something,

into an art form.

That didn't happen.

In fact,

just the opposite happened.

Instead, it dwindled in-into

a mediocre commodity.

(Damiano)

With the advent of

the video camera,

it got to be so easy

to--to shoot X-rated video

that ev-everybody could do it.

And then, the only ones

that did it

were the ones that could do it

cheaper and cheaper,

for less and less

and less money.

(Damiano)

They were--

they were nothing.

It was just

one sex scene after another.

And it--it sort of

killed itself.

I couldn't make

that kind of film.

Because there was--

there was no reason to.

It became a--

it became a factory.

It was over.

You didn't need

filmmakers anymore.

[seagulls cawing]

(Hopper)

As the adult industry grew,

it neither needed

the rebel filmmaker

who had pioneered it

nor heeded

the feminist protest

against it.

So finding herself redundant,

Linda Lovelace

moved with her family

to Denver

to try and start a new life.

(Lindsay)

Um, that's Mom at her desk.

Uh, she was the manager

of the mailroom.

She was proud of her new desk.

Um...

They fired her

when they found out about LL.

It happened a lot.

(Lovelace)

You know, I've lost two jobs

because of the name

Linda Lovelace.

And, uh,

that-that's kind of...

That hurts.

You know,

I was always defending myself

after, what, 25 years.

I don't have to do that

too much anymore.

So I've decided

it's time for me

to do what I can

to earn an income

from, uh, the abuse that

I went through from the name.

(Hopper)

Broke and out of work,

Linda returned to the world

she had once condemned.

(Lovelace)

You know, I think it's kind of

nice looking sexy

and--and still

looking attractive at 51.

So, I didn't feel

there was anything wrong

with doing it.

Many feminists

who have written,

you know, books...

And they're always using

the name Linda Lovelace,

and what happened to me.

I don't get

any royalties from that.

And it doesn't take much

to keep me happy.

You know?

I get to be with

my grandchildren,

around my children,

and that's my joy.

She died penniless.

Didn't have a dime.

Didn't have a dime.

(Boreman)

And they all got rich.

They all got

their hands in the pocket.

(woman)

F*** me harder,

harder, harder.

(Mailer)

Sex is a force,

it's a force like lava.

And there haven't been

too many successful

engineering projects

about diverting

the flow of lava.

Did I ever see

the movie Deep Throat?

No.

Should l?

No. That's with, um,

that lady who died.

What's her name?

No, I have not seen it.

Deep Throat forged

the sexual revolution

for good or bad.

(Waters)

It led to the porno business.

Linda Lovelace turned it,

and Deep Throat turned it,

into an industry.

And like it or hate it,

that's what she's gonna be

remembered for, forever.

(Bart)

Porn really does have

a yucky feel to it today.

Part of it, I think,

that was lost is this,

a certain innocence.

For that brief moment,

porn was part of

discovery, curiosity,

change.

Today it's different.

(Jong)

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