January 10
Linda Susan Boreman's Birthday

 
   
 
   

Linda Susan Boreman, better known as Linda Lovelace, was born on January 10, 1949. According to one of her four biographies, she had a son at the tender age of twenty while still living with her parents, but her mother put up the child for adoption. Soon after, Boreman was seriously injured in a car crash. She needed a blood transfusion, which gave her hepatitis.

Ironically, Boreman didn’t catch the disease from the career that made her famous. Boreman gained fame as the star of one of the most successful and famous hardcore pornography films of all time – Deep Throat (1972) and which has earned more than $500 million and is one of the highest grossing films of all time.

Now, not that we’ve seen the movie, but Boreman, as Linda Lovelace, supposedly stars as a woman who finds sex joyless and unexciting. During the film, she discovers that due to a bizarre medical condition she is only able to attain orgasm through the titular sex act. Not that we’ve seen the movie.

The film was a huge success, becoming the first explicitly sexual film to gain a mainstream audience and launching the fad of porno chic. In fact, Deep Throat had such a huge cultural impact that it inspired the nickname for the Washington Post’s Watergate informant.

Sadly, Boreman was not so positive about the impact the film had. She later claimed that her involvement in Deep Throat and pornography in general was the result of coercion and abuse by her first husband, Chuck Traynor. Although the extent and severity of this coercion was argued by those who had worked with her in the industry, by 1976 Boreman wanted out of pornography. In fact, by 1980 and with the publication of her third autobiography, Boreman officially joined the anti-pornography movement, a principle she stood by until her death by car accident in 2002.

So, how to commemorate the birthday of the girl who had to go so far to untangle her tingle? Here's a cocktail that that you can enjoy while watching her biopic Lovelace (2012), and indi film that details her abusive marriage and how she was forced into working on Deep Throat.
 
 
 

 Deep Throat Cocktail

   

Ingredients
 

1/2 oz Bailey's Irish cream
1/2 oz Kahlua coffee liqueur
 

1/2 oz whipped cream

 
   
Instructions

Pour the Bailey's and Kahlua into a shot glass. Top with whipped cream, and serve.

   
© 2011 Gordon Nary and Tyler Stokes