Linda Lovelace
Linda Susan Boreman, better known by the name Linda Lovelace, (January 10, 1949 - April 22, 2002) was an American former pornographic actress, and later a feminist, evangelical Christian, and author who fought against the pornography industry.
Quotes
[edit]- Virtually every time someone watches that movie, they're watching me being raped.
- Linda Lovelace about Deep Throat (film), testifying before the Meese Commission.
- It is a crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my head the entire time.
- Linda Lovelace, interviewed in the Toronto Sun, March 20, 1981.
Ordeal (1980)
[edit]- When in response to his suggestions I let him know I would not become involved in prostitution in any way and told him I intended to leave, [Traynor] beat me and the constant mental abuse began. I literally became a prisoner, I was not allowed out of his sight, not even to use the bathroom, where he watched me through a hole in the door. He slept on top of me at night, he listened to my telephone calls with a .45 automatic eight shot pointed at me. I suffered mental abuse each and every day thereafter. He undermined my ties with other people and forced me to marry him on advice from his lawyer.
My initiation into prostitution was a gang rape by five men, arranged by Mr. Traynor. It was the turning point in my life. He threatened to shoot me with the pistol if I didn't go through with it. I had never experienced anal sex before and it ripped me apart. They treated me like an inflatable plastic doll, picking me up and moving me here and there. They spread my legs this way and that, shoving their things at me and into me, they were playing musical chairs with parts of my body. I have never been so frightened and disgraced and humiliated in my life. I felt like garbage. I engaged in sex acts in pornography against my will to avoid being killed ... The lives of my family were threatened.
- MacKinnon, Catherine A. (2006). Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
