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Deep Throat Was Only The Beginning

Linda Boreman was just twenty-one when she met Chuck Traynor, the man who would change her life. Less than two years later, the girl who wouldnt let her high school dates get past first base was catapulted to fame she could never have imagined in her wildest dreamsor worst nightmares. Linda Boreman of Yonkers, New York, had become Linda Lovelace, international adult film superstar. The unprecedented success of Deep Throat made porn popular with the mainstream and made Lovelace a household name. But nobody, from the A-list celebrities who touted the movie to the audiences that lined up to see it, knew the truth about what went on behind the scenes.

Enslaved by the man who would eventually force her into marriage so that he could control her completely, Linda was beaten savagely with regularity, hypnotized, and raped. She was threatened with disfigurement and death. She was terrorized into prostitution at gun and knifepoint. She was forced to perform unspeakable perversions on film. She made Deep Throat under unimaginable duress.

Years later, Linda would come out of hiding to relate her side of the storya modern horror tale of humiliation, betrayal, and violence that would rock the porn industry and put its teller in fear for her life...

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Linda Lovelace became a household name in 1972, when Deep Throat became the first pornographic movie ever to cross over into the mainstream. Due to the success of Deep Throat, she appeared in Playboy, Bachelor, and even Esquire between 1973 and 1974. Soon after, Lovelace joined in with anti-pornography feminists led by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, and she testified before Attorney General Meeses Commission on Pornography in 1986. She died in Denver on April 22, 2002, due to severe injuries in a car accident.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Citadel (January 1, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780806527741
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0806527741
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.08 x 0.71 x 8.74 inches

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Warren A. Lewis

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 8, 2023

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I've read some of the bad reviews on this book and I find it amazing that in this day with all the biographical movies and television shows where people are held against their will and threatened with death if they attempt to escape, that some readers show no empathy for this woman's situation. I don't doubt some of it may be embellished, but I believe a large part of it. Chuck Trayner should have gone to jail, and I find it truly amazing that some smart lawyer didn't find a way to put him there and recover a large part of the money he had stolen from her. The book is easy to read, but some parts are graphic enough to be hard to understand how anyone could treat another this way.

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Margaret Jett

Your side, their side, and the truth

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I believe that Linda went through a hellishly awful experience, I don't deny or question that. The facts make sense to a point. I say this as a survivor of domestic abuse myself, that I can 'feel' how true most of this story really is. However, you have to take into consideration the 'your side, their side, and the truth' part of the story. Linda comes across as very pious and judgmental throughout most of the book. Her right to be so. Some of the stories just lack a ring of truth that I can't explain. I think that if you have lived it you can feel what's real and what is...embellished. I'm not trying to diminish what she went through, I am just saying that it's a case of the three faces of the truth. No one tells the whole truth all the time, myself included. We don't like to expose our faults and failures, which is totally human. It is an eye opening read and a real look behind the curtain of the porn industry--at least as it was then.

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Very Eye Opening to read the truth

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Having read the two previous books that were supposed to have been written by, Linda Lovelace, I was surprised but enthralled by the truth in this book. I hope her son makes a lot of money off this book. It's well worth the reading to learn the truth and how bad people like Chuck Trainer can be.

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You never know what someone else is going through…

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Although this is not the most well written book, I was horrified while reading what this woman faced and had to overcome. I hope she’s resting in peace and her son benefits from the books proceeds.

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Kimberlie L.

Raw, graphic, and shocking.

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The horrors this woman went through are indescribable, though she does it well. The fact that she came out of this nightmare alive, able to have a family and a somewhat normal life speaks for her incredible strength. I myself cannot begin to imagine what brainwashing or Stockholm Syndrome is like. I've been lucky enough in life to never be in a situation where I would find out, but I do know that they are real and every single day countless young women are victims of it.

Those of us that have young women in our lives need to teach them the signs, the red flags, what to look for, what to do, and how to get out ... to do our best to give them the knowledge that will keep them away from the deviant and depraved men that treat women this way. This is a book I would recommend, to let them learn from others just how bad it can get, instead of them learning for themselves. The Chuck Traynors of the world will always be there to exploit and destroy, because so often there are no repercussions for their actions. Changing that is the only way to make it stop.

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A first hand look of sex-slavery

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What can one person, who only knows Linda Lovelace by name really say about her? Porn star. You will think twice of labeling her after reading this book. The book takes you on a wild ride re-telling what happened to her (the span of 3 years) after her first encounter Chuck Traynor through a mutual friend. Granted, she was quite naive, but the slow progression of Chuck Traynor slowly starting to groom her is quite frightening. If one ever reads or hears from first account tales of sexually abused childred discribing how their offender preyed upon them, then groomed them to go fo the attack, this was no different for Linda even though she was young adult when it happened. I'm quite sadden how her mother acted towards her, before Chuck Traynor and after Linda married him. Talk about being stuck in 1800s mentality. It also scared me to know how many sick and demented people are out there, even famous people if one can imagine that. Enter crazy explotation things I'm quite embarassed to say but I'm sure she was equally embarassed to hash up those memories. I will certainly never be able to think of a certain named celebrity the same again. Then again, he seemed to have inadvertanly help her without her knowing. It's also without a doubt that sex-slavery/trafficking has always existed, nothing new since the first reports in the 2000s and we have to really realize how huge of a problem it is. I"m glad she found the courage in herself to finally leave Traynor and uncover the horrible tales of her life with him. As she put it, if this happened to a girl from Florida with having a small dream of opening a store in NY, it could certainly happen to any of us.

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Linda's Story

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What prompted the interest in this book was seeing the movie Lovelace. If this is true, then Chuck Traynor is worse than a monster. Monster doesn't begin to describe him. At the moment depraved, insane and inhuman come to mind. This is the most vile book I have ever read, but I couldn't put it down. I read it in less than 24 hours. My heart bled for Linda as I was reading it. No human being should have to go through what she went through. The only thing that bothered me was that she never mentioned going to the hospital after the beatings. If Chuck was beating her as badly as she says, you would think that she would have had to go to the hospital at some point and there would be some hospitals records somewhere to corroborate her story. I'm not saying she was lying. It just seems odd, but I digress. After reading this book, the movie Lovelace was like watching a Disney movie compared to what really happened. That movie barely scratched the surface, but I think Amanda Seyfried did a great job playing her. Before reading this, I thought nothing in my 38 years could shock me anymore. Well this was shocking for me. Anyway, I think it is worth a read, but be warned it is very graphic!

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Eye opening!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 6, 2023

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It is mind blowing to read about these things that happened in the 70's. To hear about it straight from the source. There are some disturbing parts that make you think "no way" and then it gets even worse.

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Nora Estrada

Catching

Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on November 5, 2018

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The images that this novel describes are strong, but catching. Once you start reading you can't stop. Is light, continuous, well organised, with clean writing.

L Ruggles

Sad journey

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on September 3, 2018

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I had heard of her but never thought this book would reveal her true life ...very sad...not a good life

Mila

読み応えはない。

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on March 17, 2014

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結末に手抜き間を感じた。引退後の活動内容や生活の言及があると中身の濃い作品になると思ったので、もの足らなさを感じた。

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Anyone who wants to feel depressed and disgusted by porn of the nastiest kind.

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on April 16, 2019

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Wasted life, undereducated & over submissive, a very sad story

Holly Fisher

Speechless

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 5, 2022

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If you don’t read this and want to hug Linda and just look after her then there is something wrong! My heart hurt reading this and my brain cannot comprehend what is actually human evil. She was a survivor and what a story, really worth the read.

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