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Linda Lovelace was obviously a liar

posted 12 years ago by lazarillo
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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.

Of course, some women ARE forced into prostition, but she was the only mainstream porn star to claim this, and strangely she never did so in the early 70's when she was at the height of her minor fame and had lots of mainstream exposure. Instead she started a revue in Las Vegas and made "Linda Lovelace for President". Her stories are also contradicted by everyone she ever "worked" with back then--Harry Reems, Gerardo Damiano, Thora Birch's mom--many of whom are not otherwise still friendly with the porn industry. She's also contradicted herself numerous times. She allegedly took a polygraph at her publisher's request after this book came out, but if THAT story is even true, the machine probably exploded or she passed it only because she was a sociopath.

It's not hard to believe she was in an abusive relationship with her then-husband Chuck Traynor, but then she turned around and made outrageous claims about mild-mannered director Gerardo Damiano holding a gun to her head. This is typical "victim feminism"--instead of blaming ONE man and assigning ANY responsibility to a woman for her poor romantic choices, they blame some kind of "patriarchal" male conspiracy, even though the larger "patriarchy" back then was definitely against women being in porn. Moreover, that was a strange time when porn was largely still illegal, but porn stars were quasi-celebrities; porn producers were outlaws flying under the radar, yet there were probably thousands of liberated young hippie girls willing to go all the way on screen (it was the height of the Sexual Revolution). And in the midst of all this, a large conspiracy of people chose to risk kidnapping rape and felony menacing charges (a gun to the head) to force one, only marginally attractive woman to make a porno movie? Pardon the pun, but this whole story is VERY hard to swallow.

[–] fede_4488 9 years ago

Stopped reading after the opening sentence. Couldn't finish reading the rest of your misogynist drivel written by some douchebag who can't accept that the woman your jerk off to was the victim of abused

If I don't reply, you're probably on my ignore list for something I forgot already

[–] 9 years ago

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[–] luna-guthrie 8 years ago

I completely agree, OP. I've read Linda's books (definitely ghost-written - her spoken vocabulary was nowhere near as broad as that in her books), and her entire existence has been one lie or contradiction after another.
'Inside Linda Lovelace' paints a pretty interesting image of Linda, indulging in such past times as flashing elderly strangers and going to the cinema with a vibrator inside her. Her sex parties and the like were commonplace for her age and location, and were corroborated by many different sources, none of whom had any reason to lie.

Once she was leeched upon by that odious Steinem woman, she did the most exaggerated one-eighty imaginable, and dressed up as a bespectacled frump. And sorry, but why would all of those people, who were each trying to get on in their own filmmaking careers, conspire together, on more than one picture, to get this particular woman to comply? Although she had a 'talent', Chuck taught it to her, and could do it again if need be, and NY in 1971 was crawling with hippie chicks doing that sort of movie already, only underground.

Now although Traynor was a slimy bastard at the best of times, his marriage to Marilyn Chambers throws everything off. Marilyn did everything Linda should have if she wanted longevity - she negotiated herself smart contracts, presented herself well in public and was very well spoken, and really was what Linda claimed - a figurehead of free sexuality, and she never turned her back on it. Because of this, despite breaks and numerous setbacks, she had a long and pretty successful career. Moreover, she never once made any such allegations about Chuck, and still held him in high regard after their divorce.

Years later, once Linda had ridden the feminist bandwagon with nothing to show for it, she went back to being the Deep Throat star and doing conventions and photoshoots.
It seems that Linda was a pretty dumb thing, and only ever attached herself to whatever cause served her own needs. It's very typical behaviour today unfortunately. I speak with no bias when I say that as a 24 year old woman, I remember well what teenage girls are like, and regretting some sexual antic can always be healed by alleviating the blame and claiming rape. I knew several people to pull this very lie, and even knew one innocent guy who ended up in prison because of a manipulative young woman. Seems to me that Linda Lovelace popularised the 'victim card', and we all know how that goes down today.