Linda was a porn actress; but she died as an anti-porn feminist. Lovelace is one of the best-selling autobiography among celebrities in the United States. She has summarized her resume four times so far.
On April 24, 2002, news agencies announced the news that Linda Boreman, known as Linda Lovelace, died as a result of a traffic accident. Linda was 53 years old. She became famous by playing the lead role in Deep Throat, one of the hardest porn movies ever made, then met feminism and reconsidered her life between prostitution, drug addiction and the porn industry with her pen and words. Linda died as an anti-porn feminist. She was the most convincing anti-porn. She had spent the last years of her life writhing in the desire to be accepted and loved. Linda's life story is a great document.
Deep Throat is the most profitable and well-known movie the porn industry has ever produced. Even today, the movie, shot in one of the cramped, musty motel rooms in Miami, is considered a symbol of the porn revolution. Many surveys reveal that Deep Throat, which provides huge financial resources to the mafia, is one of the top three elements that changed America's view of sexuality. Deep Throat is said to have earned $600 million. This makes the film one of the most lucrative productions in the history of cinema. However, Linda Lovelace, who was seen as a female actress, did not receive a penny from this movie.
In 1972, US celebrities were present at the cinema premiere of Deep Throat. Frank Sinatra, Warren Beatty, Truman Capote, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis Jr have all expressed their admiration for the film. Sammy Davis Jr's adoration was so extravagant that that same year, Lovelace and her husband were invited to a group orgy with Sammy and his wife.
Lovelace is one of the best-selling autobiography among celebrities in the United States. She has summarized her resume four times so far. While she celebrated free sexuality in the first two books, she exposed the aspect of pornography that attacks women in the last two and emphasized that the transformation of pornography into this form is a danger to humanity. Linda's unhappiness stood out in the last two books. The last two books have naively described the good/evil contradiction of the sexual revolution and the ways it has taken women.
A tough and disciplined family
Linda's childhood had been difficult. She had grown up in Yonkers to a police father and a homemaker mother. Her family was tough, disciplined, and fascistic. Linda had attended Catholic schools, her nickname was Miss Holy, because she never let boys touch her. When she was 16, her father retired and the family moved to Florida. Linda had no circle of friends. At the age of 19, she had her first relationship, got pregnant. The baby was adopted into a family under pressure from her mother, almost without Linda's knowledge or consent. Linda returned to New York after this event, planning to enter a computer school and open a boutique in the meantime. She was in a car accident just then, and she met a pimp during her rest period. Chuck Taynor, a bar owner and pimp, invited Linda, who was sunbathing with her injured bruised body by the pool, to smoke pot in his Jaguar. Linda was 21 years old. She moved into Traynor's house a few weeks after they met. Traynor had the opposite personality: tough, possessive, angry. Traynor taught this inexperienced girl everything she knew about sex.
Prostitution
Traynor wanted to cash in on what he had taught Lovelace. With beating and death threats, she forced the young woman into prostitution for three years between 1969 and 1972. Eventually, Traynor married her to prevent her from testifying against him about the drug trade. During this period, Linda also got used to drugs. Linda was rejected by all the big brothel bosses because of her silicone boobs and her not-so-attractive physique. Linda's charms were her hippie feelings and her casual cute girl-next-door look. Chasing money, Traynor introduces Linda to the porn kingdom held by a mafia group. Linda has acted in all kinds of porn movies. She once acted in a movie with animals. In her autobiography, she told that she was acted at gunpoint in this movie. This dark world led Linda to the makeshift set of Deep Throat. In later years, theorists such as Andrea Dworkin and Gloria Steinem would explain that her roles were symbolized during the portrayal of women as a sex slave.
Linda has been on the cover of many men's magazines. During this period, she wasn't afraid to reveal her love for sex. She was an ideal as the shameless female figure of the porn industry. However, she didn't have a penny in her pocket. She was completely propertyless, she. Everyone was getting richer because of him.
Linda's attempts at innocent movies failed and her requests to dance in nightclubs were always turned down. Everyone thought of nothing but seeing her naked.
Feminism
Linda was finding herself as she moved away from Traynor. She was like a country girl lost in the big city. In an interview with She penthouse, she was telling that she loves cinema and theater and enjoys dance performances. “I have a hunger to be cultured,” she was saying.
She was a mother of two, married to a construction worker in the 1980s. She was involved in the feminist movement. While writing her third autobiography, she was hooked up to a polygraph for 11 hours, revealing for the first time the terrifying truths about her life. She said pornography is "legalized rape". She called out to the audience of Deep Throat: "You're watching me get raped!". She was a speaker at serious anti-porn seminars in the mid-1980s. Although her ex-porn friends tried every way to make her a liar, no one was able to prove that the horrific events she described were untrue. Linda has given sworn testimony and personally testified on the relationship of pornography to trafficking in women and drug trafficking at many legal platforms. Gloria Steinem wrote the foreword to her fourth book.
Meanwhile, her health had deteriorated. Her lungs, which were damaged in a traffic accident when she was 21, were causing problems. She had surgery, she survived with drugs. Traynor's beatings had also done other permanent damage to her body. While Linda was getting worse and worse, her family was getting poorer. She divorced in 1996. She was explaining that she had put up with her married life just because of her children, and in fact, marriage was close to prostitution. Her greatest strength in life was her children. She had grandchildren thanks to her eldest daughter. Their children explained that they were never ashamed of their mothers.
Linda syndrome
Linda Lovelace also gave her name to a slang phrase describing former porn stars' later encounters with feminism in the USA: Linda Syndrome.
Linda was badly injured in a car accident. She was in intensive care for three weeks, accompanied by her parents and two children. She met the porn industry after a car accident, she met death from another accident. She had a rough life, may she rest in peace.