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The notorious Linda Lovelace was America's first Queen of Porn, presiding over a fast-developing multi-billion-dollar film industry during the decadent 1970s. Her movie, Deep Throat, redefined the nation's views on obscenity and was credited with changing America's sexual attitudes more than anything since the 1948 Kinsey Report. But at decade's end, Linda, in a complete about-face, emerged as one of the more compelling voices in the feminist movement, denouncing the degradations of her cinematic past.
The female star of the most famous and profitable porno flick of all time was a sex slave, prisoner of a sadistic pimp who rented her out for rape. She became the party faour of Hollywood stars, including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Teddy Kennedy and Sammy Davis, Jr., who wanted to ''buy'' her throat for the night. She reigned as the the Queen of One-Night Stand until she liberated herself, turning on her abusers. The world's most famous sexual performer ended her life in obscurity and poverty, hounded by law enforcement officers, the IRS, and vengeful members of right-wing religous groups. Even then, she was hailed as an icon who changed America's attitudes about sexuality.
Her uncensored, unapologetic, and ultimately tragic story is the subject of a new major motion picture, made by Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (documentary makers of Common Threads, The Celluloid Closet, and directors of Howl) and starring Amanda Seyfried as Linda Lovelace. in this overview of her life and times by celebrity dirt-dasher Darwin Porter, new insights pour forth about the bizarre saga of the world's most famous porno star and the dark side of the American Dream.
Paperback, 640 Pages, Published 2013
Author: Darwin Porter