Earlier this year Linda Boreman died. Linda
Boreman is best known under the alias Linda
Lovelace, an alias that she used when she stared in
the film Deep Throat (1972). Deep Throat tells the
story of a woman who cannot get sexual satisfaction,
until a doctor (after thorough examination)
discovers that she has her clitoris
in her throat, and suggests that
Linda should get into oral sex. Linda
develops a preference for oral sex, and
this theme is put on view in the rest of the
film. Deep Throat was one of the first pornographic
movies to be shown to a broader
audience at cinemas in the US, it challenged
American obscenity laws, and ‘liberated’ Americans
and soon enough the rest of the Western world with
its pro-sex message and its explicit sexual content.