Linda Lovelace was obviously a liar

Damn right Laz!

I'm a proud male feminist: I believe in the equality of women and that dictates that they are not little children/undeveloped pseudo adults who are powerless to the exploitation by men and certain power structures (like the porn industry) because of their supposed mental/emotional/psychological inferiority but are their own self actualizing free agents and authentic adults on the very same level by any measure as men. It is utterly repugnant to treat/view women as if they are less than this, that they are often "victims", especially in the name of feminism. That is blatantly in direct contradiction to feminism and degrades the status of females.

Also, women, uh, enjoy sex. And some truly desire to be porn stars and are very happy and psychologically healthy with this career choice. Only in repressed societies do woman have to feel badly about enjoying sex, so much so that the guilt they feel over doing so or becoming a porn star drives them to play the "victimhood" get out of jail free card.

The real culprit of Lovelace's psychological stress was the sexually repressed society stemming from the harmful patriarchal religious outlook that makes so many think of something as wholesome and wonderful as enjoying sex as something bad and sinful. She wasn't of sufficient independent mental spirit to overcome this anti-life draconian nonsense in the end (and that has nothing to do with her sex! many males can't enjoy sex because they feel guilty about it), she didn't posses a healthy enough ego to not care about what society thought of her actions.

This whole movie was morally repugnant because it is anti-woman and also anti-sex...it must have been written by a sexual repressed loser and funded by the anti-woman and anti-life fundamental religious traditions. Lovelace was no victim (and again most women are not victims just as most men are not) and she was not some innocent naive girl: she loved sex, loved what she did (including bestiality which is a lot more common than most know), spent years doing it, and did a lot of drugs as well...then denied it all later and blamed others because she bought into the unhealthy attitudes about sex too much of the repressed US holds and lacked the intellectual honesty and strength of character to just "blame" herself (for doing nothing wrong in the real world, but only in her mind and the mind of other unhealthy people). That is the real tragedy here, that she couldn't embrace what is morally justified and psychologically healthy: that sex in any form, whether private or public, between consenting adults is a good and life affirming thing, not something corrupt, sinful, immoral, or anything otherwise.

So lovely to see another anti-female/anti-sex movie; again I'm offended as a proud male feminist and rational/psychologically healthy person.

PS: About nothing in this movie was accurate, even a brief look at Wiki will tell you that.

I have to agree with most of the people here who say you can't believe everything Linda said once she became an anti-porn activist. This movie is quite interesting though as they show both sides of the story.

The true story lies somewhere in the middle though. Did Chuck beat and abuse Linda when they were together, I have no doubt that he did. Did he force her into doing porn movies. Perhaps but I think she was more willing to do it than the second half of this movie showed (that is based on accounts from people on the set that said Linda was much more relaxed and energetic about her scenes when Chuck wasn't there).

As others have said. I believe that Linda was pissed that she didn't get any mainstream success after Deep Throat and once she left Chuck she fell into the anti-porn feminist crowd and they convinced her that she was forced into the industry against her will.

i am sorry but almost everyone hated chuck and most people said that he was very abusive to her

Please look up feminism, this goes againist what it is all about.

I believe that she wanted fame and she did want to be a star and I think the stardom that came after the movie was something she genuinely enjoyed. I think she probably exagerated her story to make it seem like she was against pornography from the very beginning but she was extremely young at a time when women had a smaller voice. They were products of their husbands an she came from a family who taught her to do as her husband asked.

I think she was very naive and married this guy who found it easy to manipulate her into doing things in the beginning. She was probably happy to do them as well to please him. But I ccan tell you the porn industry today is still sketchy and it was even worse back then. So I dont find it hard to believe that it wasnt just her husband holding a gun to her head. There are still women today willingly signing on to do porn and walking into a dangerous situation where they are raped against their will. Just because a woman agrees to do porn, or dances naked on a stage, or even takes money for sexual favors doesnt make her a blow up doll someone can use and abuse. They still deserve a level of respect.

I cant say whats true and what isnt true, I do think there was a part of her in the beginning that was ok with doing the porn film but I do believe she was heavily abused, manipulated and pushed beyond her limits until she broke and finally got out. She probably felt she had to say that she was against it all from the beginning because had she said she quite enjoyed being a pornstar at the time everyone would have turned round and said she deserved to be raped, she deserved to be abused because shes a slut...thats how women were treated back then. If they wore short skirts, dressed a little risque, flirted incessantly they deserved what they got/ People still have that mindset over women today who get raped down back alleys or outside clubs and just because they are wearing a short dress they deserve what they get. Its disgusting.

There is no blame on any woman who marries an abusive man unknowingly. You cant know that the man your marrying is an abusive nut job and its not as simple as to get out straight away sometimes, they are very good at manipulating you into believing its your fault.I know ive been in such a relationship and luckily I got out when I did because I found out some years later the girl he was with after me didn't leave and she ended up hospitalized nearly dead. Its not easy. Theres that fear of what they ight do if you leave, because you see theres nothing left for that person to loose. And even if they dont kill you or hurt you for leaving, theres been cases of long term stalking well after the relationship has ended. These men and women because women can be abusive the same way too, are just that sick minded they shouldnt be allowed to walk around in the light of day! But anyways I dont like the mindset of the woman or the man whose been abused having to take responsibility. No they dont because they are a victim of a crime nothing more. Theres no responsibility on them unless they knew the person was violent and married them because they wanted to be abused then they would have to take responsibility for that, but who in the world wants to be abused?

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This movie is based on Linda Lovelace's "autobiography" that was written in the early 1980's when she was embracing a idealogy I call "victim feminism". This almost completely discredited idealogy, which most self-respecting women and even most feminists, would probably consider insulting today, basically supposes women have no free will, so if they end up working as strippers, porn stars, prostitutes, etc., it MUST BE because they were forced into it by men. Worse, Lovelace wasn't even sincere about this. She only became a "feminist" some years AFTER she failed to parlay her infamy from "Deep Throat" into main street celebrity.

I read the book when it came out, and I found it compelling. At the time I believed it. But now, not so sure. Apparently, though, she passed a couple polygraph tests. That should count for something. And if it means anything else, I think the movie believes her.

I have seen an interview with Chuck Trainer and he did seem to confirm Linda's version of events.

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