a couple of people I know. Thanks

The quotes from her are from her testimony during an official inquiry of the sex industry in 1986.

Lots of information there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lovelace

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With the publication of Ordeal in 1980, Boreman joined the feminist anti-pornography movement. At a press conference announcing Ordeal, she leveled many of the above-noted accusations against Traynor in public for the first time. She was joined by supporters Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, Gloria Steinem, and members of Women Against Pornography. Boreman spoke out against pornography, stating that she had been abused and coerced. She spoke before feminist groups, at colleges, and at government hearings on pornography.

In 1986, Boreman published Out of Bondage, a memoir focusing on her life after 1974. She testified before the 1986 Attorney General's Commission on Pornography in New York City, stating, "When you see the movie Deep Throat, you are watching me being raped. It is a crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my head the entire time." Following Boreman's testimony for the Meese Commission, she gave lectures on college campuses, decrying what she described as callous and exploitative practices in the pornography industry.[15][16]

In The Other Hollywood, Boreman said she felt "used" by the anti-pornography movement. "Between Andrea Dworkin and Kitty MacKinnon, they've written so many books, and they mention my name and all that, but financially they've never helped me out. When I showed up with them for speaking engagements, I'd always get five hundred dollars or so. But I know they made a few bucks off me, just like everybody else."[17]

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simply dismiss what the woman says. only listen if it validates position on porn. where is that picture of the litttle boy with fingers in the ear

Very disturbing stuff. The people spewing how harmless porn is should read it, too. Not that it would make it past their shields of denial.

That's why CONservatives are always so pro-porn.

more powerful. There are some women on this board who aspire to be just like Linda. Linda is their role model. really? really.

The source of my sexual pleasure? Uh, no thank you.


OT, but one of my pet peeves are those supposedly romantic beach scenes where a man and a woman are making out on a beach with the waves crashing around them. I tell my husband we ever do that he's on the bottom because I don't want sand in my neithers. He can deal with it.

A gay mate told me of the time he was enjoying the fresh air and intimate contact and then realised he had picked up an oat grain (spikey) under his foreskin.

He needed to have it extracted by a nurse ....

Like so many other romanticized things... it wasn't nearly as much fun as it seemed like it would be. Fucking sand... ugh.