to the people who don't think she was a victim:
did she actually make any money from any of her films?
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Yes, yes she did. She was paid, just like performers today, for the work and that was that. She didn't make any royalties because, just like today, porn actors didn't receive royalties. Is that fair, not really, but that is how the business works.
shareNot to mention, she was paid well. She earned $1,250.00 in 1972 for six days worth of work. That's about $7k adjusted for inflation into today's money. When was the last time you earned almost twelve hundred dollars a day?
shareOP, using your logic, ALL porn stars from that era would qualify as "victims". None of them made big bucks off of the films they were in....someone did, but it certainly wasn't the actors/actresses.
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She did want to do it though. It may have been his idea but people who were actually there and have no reason to lie about it so many years later said that, especially when he wasn't around, that Linda was energetic and excited while shooting. Does that sound like someone who didn't want to do it?
shareHave you ever psyched yourself up to do something you weren't sure you wanted to do? Deep Throat is a performance not a reality.
One has to remember that before Deep Throat, hardcore pornography was legally and culturally and underground entertainment. There weren't "porn stars" before the seventies. There were sex workers who did loops, stag films, and photo shoots. Nobody knew who they were. What's more, nobody knew their stories. Linda Lovelace was one of the first "porn stars." We know Linda's story.
It is important not use blanket generalizations. Some women are indeed forced into sex work by bad circumstances. Some women do sex work because that's what they really want to do. And everything in between. I think Linda Boreman was somewhere in between. She was enticed at first and coerced later.
If all she was doing was "psyching herself up" then why wasn't she all chipper and energetic when he was around?
shareBy that logic, all male porn stars are "victims: since they make A LOT less money and pretty much anybody that has a crappy, low-paying job is a "victim".
shareAround 90% of all female sex workers were molested as children, so they are automatically victims.
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