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January 10 |
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Linda Susan Boreman
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Linda Susan Boreman, better known as Linda
Lovelace, was born on January 20, 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). 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?
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©
2011 Gordon Nary and Tyler Stokes |
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