Deep throat
sandyman
Tennessee
The local cable rebroadcast a documentary “Inside Deep Throat”. It had a lot of interviews with the people involved with the film and the impact on their lives, and the impact the film had on the porno industry and the changing social values. It really was one of the first explicit adult movies that made the crossover to general release. If you don’t know the story, the male star was convicted under the existing obscenity laws and would have done jail time if it hadn’t been reversed. This would have a chilling effect on the whole porno industry.
The other thing that saved the industry was the release of VCR’s, which allowed porn to be viewed at home. This had a detrimental effect on the “adult” movie theaters, but allowed the explosion of the video market.
I remember seeing it on a twin bill with “The devil in Miss Jones “ in the mid-70’s. Pretty daring stuff for those days and times.
Political joke of the time. Why did President Nixon go see Deep Throat twice? He wanted to get it down pat! (His wife’s name was Pat.)
Any of the other oldsters remember seeing it in a theater?
The other thing that saved the industry was the release of VCR’s, which allowed porn to be viewed at home. This had a detrimental effect on the “adult” movie theaters, but allowed the explosion of the video market.
I remember seeing it on a twin bill with “The devil in Miss Jones “ in the mid-70’s. Pretty daring stuff for those days and times.
Political joke of the time. Why did President Nixon go see Deep Throat twice? He wanted to get it down pat! (His wife’s name was Pat.)
Any of the other oldsters remember seeing it in a theater?
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Interracial, blow jobs, multiple simultaneous partners, bondage....that movie pretty much had it all.
BTW the star of Deep Throat her name was Linda Lovelace came out and said she was trafficked a number of years ago I remember something about her commiting suicide.
She didn't commit suicide, she was taken off life support after a bad car accident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Love…
Porn certainly has come a long way since I was a kid in the 70s, when I was introduced to it by a friend whose dad had an amazing collection of porn mags. I remember the American mags, like Playboy and others, didn't compare to the raunch he imported from Europe. That was some great shit.Just goes to show how far advanced Europe was, and still is, in matters of sex and porn, than the USA, with its holier-than-thou evangelicals and politicians who secretly pay for sex and molest boys and who knows what else.
I went with a couple of co-workers to see it at some "theater", I believe it was on the beach. Didn't pay that much attention as I wasn't driving.
Good one!
But never about richard nixon starring in a porn film lol!