Our Degenerate Obsession With Porn Began With The 1972 Film Deep Throat

Deep Throat (1972) was the first “blue movie” to become a major blockbuster. This film—and Supreme Court decisions tinkering with the legal definition of obscenity—became a game changer for the porn industry. Because of its considerable cultural significance, the story deserves (if you’ll pardon the expression) a deep dive.

Get thee to a nunnery

Not quite in the cards

Linda Boreman (stage name Lovelace) grew up in NYC, moving to Florida with her family at sixteen. Per the Daily Mail:

At high school they called her ‘Miss Holy Holy’ because she wanted to become a nun and always kept the boys at arm’s length.

However, her path didn’t exactly lead to a convent. She had a baby out of wedlock, who was put up for adoption. Her parents were pretty strict. The 2013 Lovelace film biography showed her mother slapping her for returning very late after a hot date.

Becoming the first big porn star might be considered the ultimate “Fuck you, Dad” moment. However, the reason wasn’t more rebellion, but rather her future husband, Chuck Traynor. Although Lovelace depicts her parents as “squares”, ultimately they were right about this topless bar owner, among other things.

A hell of a way to become famous

The happy couple in 1970. No, that’s not Charles Manson.

Under Traynor’s influence—what form that took is hotly disputed—she began acting in porn. Beginning in 1969, she starred in four known 8mm loops. The material is a little too exotic even for today’s mainstream porn (such as it is). She denied making them until the proof came to light. Besides that, the less said about these early productions, the better.

The big breakout was 1972’s Deep Throat. Unlike the typical porn of the time, this one actually had a plot. The premise is that her clitoris was in her throat—pretty silly, but it worked. The June 5 issue of Screw described it:

Lovelace, wrote Mr. Goldstein, “is almost a Ripley’s Believe-It-Or-Not as she takes the whole joint down her gullet. No, it’s not a small-potato penis but a roustabout rod of ten inches that plummets into the deepest recesses of our lady’s oral cavity. It seems a miracle. […] I was never so moved by any theatrical performance since stuttering through my own bar mitzvah.”

Apparently the movie itself doesn’t suck.

What’s truly remarkable is that it brought porn to new heights of respectability, for lack of better words. This one was shown not in little arcades with a slot for quarters and a hole in the wall, but on big screens. Millions saw it—even prominent celebrities—not just dudes in long raincoats haunting Times Square. It became the subject of late night comedy shows, and even was the codename for the Watergate informer.

After that, Confessions of Linda Lovelace appeared in 1973. Deep Throat 2 was released in 1974, but she refused a sex role as she began having second thoughts. Traynor forcing her into prostitution likely spurred along this decision. She had become the first major porn star, but certainly not the last one chewed up and spat out by the experience.

After Traynor

Soon they separated. Eventually she turned on Traynor and the pornographic industry with Ordeal (1980) and Out Of Bondage (1986), contrasting with two 1974 pro-porn memoirs. (Writing two more autobiographies than Obama is no mean feat.) The particulars have been disputed.

I’ll admit that I’ve never seen Deep Throat. However, accounts from the crew on that film (and other ones) indicate that the narrative in Ordeal was somewhat true, somewhat exaggerated. They note that there were bruises on her leg, and describe big fights off the set. Traynor himself admitted beating her, and this worm considered himself justified.

Even so, on the set, they say she seemed happy and under no duress. If there were a gun to her head (as she alleged), likely the degree of method-acting to maintain composure would’ve been impossible. Hugh Hefner himself met her and later said she seemed pretty enthusiastic. (I’ll leave out the specifics.)

Is it plausible that she became enthralled with a wretched knucklehead hooked on cocaine, controlling and insanely jealous even while pimping her out? Absolutely! Greasy charm alternating with smacky-face is an extremely effective Push-Pull strategy, though I certainly don’t recommend it. The sad truth is that many women—particularly with low self-esteem and family troubles—just eat up that bullshit like candy. Witnessing loser appeal is quite infuriating for any decent guy who works productively, treats women like proper ladies, and doesn’t commit crimes. For many guys who’ve done everything right according to society, that’s their first Red Pill, and the bitterest.

According to Linda’s later accounts, she wanted to leave for years. This seems implausible. Stockholm Syndrome cases can’t get enough of it, until one too many black eyes finally clues them into the utter irrationality. Apparently it’s all fun and games until things get real. Likely her own drug use was a contributing factor too. I’ll give her credit for wising up; everyone makes mistakes. Still, repentance is best when it includes fully acknowledging one’s role.

The 2013 biopic ends with Linda reconciling with her parents, together with her new husband and their children. She finally found happiness as a proper wife and mother. Things were surely orders of magnitude better than before, but didn’t go perfectly—they divorced in 1996.

The feminist connection

Andrea Dworkin, feminist and cheeseburger addict

After being the Sexual Revolution’s poster child, later she championed the 1980s anti-pornography cause. This brought her into the orbit of Gloria Steinem and other feminists. However, she became disenchanted. Per The Other Hollywood:

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.

Even so, although I really hate to agree with feminists about anything, they’re partially right. The “adult entertainment” industry was—and remains—pretty grubby. For this reason, I turned down a job supporting porn sites, although I desperately needed the money then. The business associate (shall we say) of one of my former girlfriends—it’s a long story—hit me up. However, I told this lady that it led to nowhere for the performers, and I couldn’t participate. That hurt her feelings, though it wasn’t my intention.

The aftermath of Deep Throat

This low-budget effort, a week-long shoot costing $22.5K, had the best return-on-investment ratio of any movie. Gross revenue was perhaps $100 million, though six times higher by another estimate. That was much more back then, thanks to politicians repeatedly swiping the unlimited Federal Reserve credit card. The lower figure is half a billion today, after adjusting for the inflation tax.

The New York Mafia, which financed and distributed it, screwed the actual producer out of his third of the profits. (Did I mention that the porn industry is grubby?) Linda herself earned merely $1250 for the acting role. However, this measly sum probably went straight up Chuck’s nose.

This film launched the so-called “Golden Age of porn”, starting an avalanche. The grainy 8mm loops in “24 hour news stands” became unfashionable. Soon, big-screen X-rated theaters littered bad neighborhoods everywhere. During the 1980s, VHS tapes became available for rental. However, the Internet enabled pornography’s critical mass, with millions of zombies fapping for hours over weird crap. It’s been a long race to the bottom since the 1970s. Today, skin flicks with plots that featured normal looking people doing fairly ordinary bedroom stuff probably wouldn’t sell.

Ultimately, Deep Throat—and the Burger Court’s decisions—paved the way for one enriching facet of the New, Improved America. Pornographers became “champions of the First Amendment”, in the way that Mafiosos are champions of the Fifth Amendment. Beyond what the feminists described, there are many other reasons why that was a wrong turn, but all that’s another story.

Read More: Is This Pornstar A True Friend Of Feminism?

31 thoughts on “Our Degenerate Obsession With Porn Began With The 1972 Film Deep Throat”

  1. OT: Antifa chick Evette Falarka was forced to pay $11,000 in fines for false allegations (stalking). She attacked a Trump supporter at a rally then attempted to sue him and it backfired. Ha……. Ha…….

    1. It’s kind-of related. How does a leftist free-thinking strong and independent (TM) make $11,000?

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    If anyone wants to read the preface of the new series, entitled The Ultimate Goal of Communism, look no further here: http://printarchive.epochtimes.com/a1/en/us/nyc/2017/12/01_The%20Epoch%20Times/A12.pdf
    And here: https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-epoch-times-exclusive-series-the-ultimate-goal-of-communism_2366899.html
    Here are some gems from the preface:
    “…Many other countries in Africa and South America have ruled under the guise of a republic or a democratic nation, but are in fact practicing socialism. What’s more, there are also countries in Europe and North America that are not aware how their values have been eroded by communism.”
    “After losing their culture, humanity will lose their standards for how to be human. In the eyes of gods, people will become mere animals covered in human skin—incapable of restraining themselves through morality—leading to their rapid descent toward depravity. They will be rendered unable to understand the heavenly message the Creator will reveal to save people. Consequently, people will lose their chance of being saved when calamity strikes. This is the biggest cataclysm awaiting all lives—to be forever destroyed—and the communist specter’s ultimate goal.”

    1. They are without excuse….
      20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
      21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were
      thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
      22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of
      the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and
      fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped
      and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

  3. Porn…the enemy of a man !
    it was meant to make you obsessed with sex and reduce your libido to some passive lazy beta. cause that way, will make the man more obedient and less critical thinker / adventurer.
    It’s a dopamine addiction. just like alcohol, gambling, social media…etc.

    1. Two of the earliest pioneers ( 1896 ) were Frenchmen Eugène Pirou and Albert Kirchner. and the Jews expand it in 1920’s.

    2. “The New York mafia” (or “the Kosher Nostra” if you have your They Live glasses on).
      But actually it was European gentiles who started it by embracing the Asiatic dead-jew-on-a-stick slave morality proto-communist religion. And by default elevating (((them)) to Chosen/master status and giving (((them))) a monopoly on banking/usury.
      Over the last 1700 years, the parasite has grown hideously fat, powerful and essentially inoperable exclusively thanks to men of European descent. Collective guilt and punishment dictate that Europeans must suffer for unleashing such an unprecedented scourge on mankind.
      As a European man who is watching his continent implode, I feel no pity for myself or my countrymen. We deserve everything we’re getting.

  4. Porn stars and studios complain that porn profits are being eaten away via piracy, yet it’s cheaper than ever to make and edit due to low cost HD cameras and 64GB memory cards which can be reused almost endlessly.
    Just pay the whores and rent out that damn mansion and outdoor patio you see almost repeatedly which is somewhere around LA. A little bit of FinalCut Pro and boom, that’ll be $29.99 for any sucker that still bothers to pay.

  5. “Even so, although I really hate to agree with feminists about anything, they’re partially right. The “adult entertainment” industry was—and remains—pretty grubby. ”
    No logic nor foresight. Feminist politics increases the demand for alternative sexual releases…such as porn. The fundamental problem is the fact that feminists don’t understand human nature, female nature in specific. If they hate porn (which they should) they should stop feeding it by creating a market for it.

  6. “Lovelace, wrote [b]Mr. Goldstein[/b], “is almost a Ripley’s Believe-It-Or-Not as she takes the whole joint down her gullet. No, it’s not a small-potato penis but a roustabout rod of ten inches that plummets into the deepest recesses of our lady’s oral cavity. It seems a miracle. […] I was never so moved by any theatrical performance since stuttering through my own [b]bar mitzvah[/b].”
    I had to check the source, because I legitimately thought that quotation was a joke.

  7. Wonderful short movie clip, about the first-ever sale of porn on the internet
    Apparently a somewhat roughly true story … Very early days of 1990s primitive internet connections … couple of low-life guys look for a way to get some cash, and think up the idea of scanning porn pix and selling monthly subscriptions to the pix … and to enable this, they actually invent the core of the software of taking credit card payments over the web, and became quite rich in a matter of weeks … all of global web commerce goes back to a 1st sale of porn for $9.99
    Hilarious scene, movie ‘Middle Men’, vid clip 2min42s

  8. I don’t think most people realize how recent mainstream pornography became available. Up until 1973 it was routine to be criminally prosecuted for making or even possessing pornography. That is why Playboy/Penthouse were edgy back in the day.
    Even after Miller v. California state courts would still routinely prosecute obscenity charges for pornography. It wasn’t till the late 70’s/early 80’s when the practice really stopped.
    Of course there was always underground stuff, but the thought of seeing a naked woman woman performing sexual acts on a big theater screen is really only 30-40 years old in the US. In societal terms that is brand spanking new.
    Sure on the internet you can readily access any form of depravity you like for free, but I don’t think most people realize that when it comes to analyzing the effects of such things on society it takes time. To give you an analogy, if porn were a human baby it would just be learning to walk.
    Same can be said about the effect on phones (pocket computers really) and what they will have on an entire generation that have never lived a single day without immediate access to one.
    These times are unprecedented. We have no idea, other then utter speculation, what is going to happen because of these things.

  9. (((Porn))) a great weapon to defile the gentiles and promote sexual dysfunction and mental disorders.

  10. Perhaps I date myself by this (born in 1944), or open myself to being sprayed by the entire SJW nosology of pejoratives, but in the social environment around my coming up; law, custom, religion, and orthodox psychotherapeutic opinion were united in a seamless condemnation of homo-erotism. As a result, I drew a conceptual thick black line between sex, intromissio penis in vaginam, and sodomy, including both buggery and fellatio irrespective of the sex of the receptacle. Although this attitude, morphed by observation of evidence and polished by clarification through writing it out and tracing its ramifications, is the result of early environmental conditioning, I ratify it today with the informed consent of a free man.
    So very sorry, “liberated” ones, but I still think fellatio is intrinsically male homo-erotic; and depictions thereof still disgust me.

    1. Hey Edward some of your comments are pretty good and I personally welcome you.. unfortunately ROK seems to have a HIDDEN reject power whereby the AUTHOR can request a particular level of Commentary CENSORSHIP… Meaning on one page you can swear and talk like a man yet on the very next article if you speak more vociferously than a child you will see ;FORBIDDEN’; and/or your comment is gone. Sometimes the R-man and his henchmen bluster their way thru a Comment section deleting the most absurd things.. but then other pages will be rampage-free. Basically this site wants your views and clicks but not your actual opinions because we live in Soviet-America.

    1. Hey Edward here is PART of my BANNED comment on “The Type Of Man That Korean Girls Desire” by the intolerant W Adams writer/commenter. He, and others here, are especially paranoid when it comes to outing TRNS in the worldwide media. Almost none of the clueless here understand the depth of the issue. Check out these links to see what KPOP (and all other) pop music really is. http://www.allkpop.com/article/2017/03/twice-members-greet-fans-with-their-natural-no-makeup-faces AND http://www.kpopmap.com/11-korean-celebs-without-makeup/

    2. Welcome to the club. I had 2 deleted recently which I wouldn’t have said were *that* controversial or troublesome. I’ve said much worse.
      So I won’t be participating in comments anymore, but in this case just wanted to let you know the unpredictable censorship has happened to myself and others.
      I’d also love to know who is downvoting your comments.

      1. Hey. You should check out (www).akingscastle(dotcom).
        Zero censorship. Lots of great people.

    3. Yeah, I occasionally get that censored Forbidden page too. Its why some of my comments have interesting misspellings in them to bypass the autocensor. Ocassionally too, cleared posts get pulled later, as well.

  11. Yes, probably having this much porn available for free on command at any time anywhere we want isn’t good for men.
    On the other hand, we celebrate all of our innovations that increase our material standard of living and make your lives easier. We scorn societies that haven’t made such innovations.
    So then why not with regards to sex too? Now you can ‘get it’ 24/7 anytime, anywhere. Right now it is virtual, but soon it will be life like and also available 24/7 anytime anywhere.
    That is the great beauty of capitalism and technological prowess.
    Seriously, there is great value for men to take a month off from technology. Go away and make it so you can’t log in. Give yourself a porn detox. But where could you do that? Any place you go wifi and the signal will be available. Best option then is a meditation retreat, a very strict one where there is no signal.

  12. When a youtube channel devoted solely to shaky out-of-focus clips of people squeezing blackheads gets 100+ million views, nothing really surprises me anymore.

  13. A little over ten years ago the Japanese porn industry struggled to get any actresses and they paid top dollar, take a look at Japan since – the rise of the herbivore man, Japanese women lining up to be porn stars and yet the per scene fee has dropped accordingly. there could be something in the fact that watching porn keeps men docile.

  14. Rumor has it that the movie got a big boost when Jackie O was seen leaving one of its showings. I’m sure more than one young American at the time thought to themself, “Well, if it’s okay for her…”

  15. “Beginning in 1969, she starred in four known 8mm loops. The material is a little too exotic even for today’s mainstream porn (such as it is).”
    Quick Google search.
    Wish I hadn’t done that.

  16. “Dog Fucker” Yes, that woman is an elegant angel. Probably the dog was a better screw than her husband, however.
    White trash (Chuck was a lowlife Floridian while Linda Boreman was an Irish-Catholic from Yonkers) have always done unpleasant things on film.

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