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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nDeep Throat<\/em> is as controversial as it is stimulating. Porn movies existed before Deep Throat, but mostly in underground circles where you had to know someone who knew someone else who\u2019s cousin had access to some footage and the equipment to show it. Keep in mind, this is before VCRs, so if you wanted to watch a movie, you needed a projector and reels of film. Certain things about human nature can be easily predicted and one of those things is that there is a faintly short amount of time between the development of a new technology and using it for pornographic purposes. So after the creation of moving pictures, it didn\u2019t take long for someone to take a camera someplace with the expressed intention of recording some fucking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So while Deep Throat wasn\u2019t nouveau, it was certainly different because it was the beginning of mainstream pornography. People talked about the movie at work around the water cooler. It became a darling of the celebrity set with people like Johnny Carson and Truman Capote acknowledging that they\u2019d seen the film. Beyond that, everything about the movie is controversial from its earnings to the performers. Linda Lovelace, the star of the film, famously decried the film in two books, which she wrote after writing two previous books where she glorified the production. Some of the people involved back her allegations of abuse and rape while others say that she was a willing participant and a woman who always had trouble taking responsibility for her actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even the earnings are controversial. Some figures claim the film made $600 million dollars, but that could be fabricated. The mafia was involved in the distribution of the film and it\u2019s likely they used proceeds from the film to launder money from other\u2026 projects. We might sneer at such activity, but keep in mind that there are certain Hollywood accountants who refused to pay Winston Groom, the author of Forrest Gump<\/em>, anything more because they claim the film hasn\u2019t made any money. Right now, there\u2019s an accountant in Hollywood who would tell you that Star Wars<\/em> lost money. Fudging the numbers is a long standing tradition in moving making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s not discuss that here because far more intelligent and better connected people than I have talked about it already. Let\u2019s talk about the film and look at it in the context of its era and this one. A lot has changed since 1972 both in the real world and in pornographic productions. How has Throat<\/em> held up? Is it as entertaining, stimulating, and controversial today as it was then?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well actually, that answer may surprise you.<\/p>\n\n\n Deep Throat<\/em> begins with a driving scene, literally. Linda drives an early 70s model land yacht while some professional camera work shoots in and around the car while it\u2019s on the move. Already this is better than your standard Redtube fare involving a couch, two people, and a nearly stationary camera. The background music is your standard 70s tune for pornography, but that doesn\u2019t automatically make it bad. At the time, some of the larger budget porn films commissioned original music. So while the song isn\u2019t the kind of thing you\u2019ll be whistling the next morning, it\u2019s not horridly irritating. The most eye catching part of the intro is the fact that the credits sync to the music, appearing in time with the melody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, somewhere, someone cared enough to do that and make it work. The credits weren\u2019t just a throw away thing you suffered through before the movie begins. They were trying to make it a part of the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unlike much of modern day pornography, the movie doesn\u2019t just open right up with sex. Indeed, the first sex scene doesn\u2019t even roll until after four minutes into the film. That doesn\u2019t sound like a lot, but keep in mind that three-quarters of that time was opening credits. They went out of their way to put names to occupations. Whether the names were fake doesn\u2019t matter, they bothered to do it at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first scene involves Dolly Sharp getting eaten out by some random guy that we\u2019ll never see again during the film. He\u2019s the grocery delivery guy and she\u2019s paying him with her pussy. Linda walks in on them, and it\u2019s obvious that she\u2019s unfazed by her roommate getting head on the kitchen table. There\u2019s a lighthearted play to this scene, definitely a nod to the sexual liberation the film is said to portray. They carry on their conversation and Dolly asks Linda for a cigarette. She takes it from Linda and pulls the man\u2019s head away from her snatch long enough to ask him a question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDo you mind if I smoke\u2026 while you\u2019re eating?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s still a funny line. It\u2019s a kind of classic line that\u2019s been done before, but before you dismiss it as clich\u00e9, remember \u2014 every clich\u00e9 has to start someplace and while this line didn\u2019t originate with this movie, it certainly became popular in mainstream parlance because of it. There\u2019s something about this film that you don\u2019t find in a lot of skin flicks these days, because it\u2019s really hard to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No, not the cinematography or the sex. Cinematography is easy and sex is even easier. I\u2019m talking about comedy. Tragedy is easy, comedy takes talent and that line is the start of a comic streak that runs throughout the movie. You can tell that the makers of Deep Throat<\/em> knew they were making a fuck film, and saw no reason to take it one hundred percent seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s not leave cinematography by the wayside so quickly, however. Because the climax of the scene, literally in this case, is a funny and intelligent bit of scene changing. Dolly is well into what she\u2019s doing and puts on a sexy, if subdued, performance as our hero buries his face between her thighs. Just as she hits her peak and cums, she flings her nearly spent cigarette toward a sink full of water and just as it lands\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jump cut scene change to Dolly swimming in a pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It works. It\u2019s not brilliant or anything, but the fact that someone gave a damn and made the decision to do that shows that they gave a damn at all. I\u2019d also be amiss to not mention the background music, which has lyrics and features a trippy Hendrix feel to the song. It may sound strange that I\u2019m talking about the music so much, but the fact is that it isn\u2019t bad, even for a porno film. Heck, pop over to Amazon and you can buy and download the soundtrack. How many sex reels can boast a sell-able soundtrack among their accomplishments? The song, Bubbles if you\u2019d like to sample it, has a Hendrix feel to it while the sound of bubbles plays through most of the song. And by \u201cthe sound of bubbles\u201d I mean \u201cthe sound of a bong.\u201d One of the lyrics is \u201cblowing bubbles from a rainbow pipe.\u201d Look, there may be some subtlety to Dolly Sharp\u2019s sexual performance, but there\u2019s none in that song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the close of the scene we find the two ladies, Dolly and Linda, at a pool discussing Linda\u2019s sexual troubles. She\u2019s getting plenty o\u2019 tool, sure, but she\u2019s not having orgasms. She enjoys sex, but shouldn\u2019t there be rockets bursting and dams breaking, she asks. Dolly listens very intently and offers the kind of advice you only hear in porn films and rock and roll biographies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, since you can\u2019t seem to have an orgasm let\u2019s have an orgy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sounds fair to Linda and the second sex scene isn\u2019t far behind with Linda on all fours on the couch getting drilled from behind. In the living room, Dolly\u2019s handing out numbers to guys who\u2019ve arrived to attempt to provide Linda\u2019s release, but that doesn\u2019t last long as Dolly feels she needs to warm them up. After all, any good hostess would do the same for her guests, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n They work something in, if you\u2019ll pardon the pun, that was a little odd for the time. We soon find out that Linda is not only getting it from behind, but getting it in<\/em> her behind. Anal sex wasn\u2019t something you saw in many adult films at the time and the fact that we seem to have gone straight for the ass is a little brazen, even for a porno. At least, it was brazen for an early 70s porno. The surprises don\u2019t stop there, however, as something else happens that you don\u2019t often see in today\u2019s mainstream pornography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Dolly is playing with her friends in the living room; performing brilliantly in a two male, one female threesome; she too gets on all fours to receive some anal attention from behind. That\u2019s not the surprise, but what happens soon after is. As one of the guys mounts her ass, the other slips underneath both of them to eat her pussy. In today\u2019s films, it\u2019s usually only in the bisexual realm where you\u2019ll see a guy place is mouth so close to another man\u2019s cock, especially when that cock is getting it in her rear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a woman who can\u2019t orgasm, Linda seems to have at least couple of them before the scene ends. Oh well, you can\u2019t fault them on continuity all that much I suppose.<\/p>\n\n\n Or can we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n After we\u2019re done with the at-home orgy, and Linda still hasn\u2019t had her rockets red glare, Dolly refers her to a specialist. One Dr. Young, hilariously played by Harry Reems. If there needed to be a comic relief in this movie, that\u2019s what he\u2019s there for. He\u2019s supposed to be a psychiatrist and you can tell that whoever set up the character might have read about psychiatry in a magazine and then forgot most of it as they set up the scene that was to be his office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s in this scene that Linda explains her problem to our good doctor as he flings bubbles in the air from a plastic bubble wand. A nurse, Carol Connors (more about her later), retrieves the bubble bottle at the doctor\u2019s behest and he gives Linda a physical. Of course this means getting undressed and he soon discovers the source of her problem, no clitoris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s why she hasn\u2019t had an orgasm. No clitoris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Funny, we saw quite a bit of it in the previous sex scene. I can forgive continuity errors in a porn movie, but jeez, when it\u2019s the overarching plot point\u2026 I mean, what the hell, man?<\/p>\n\n\n\n After a closer examination \u2014 and that\u2019s not a metaphor for anything, they\u2019re still not having sex \u2014 he discovers her clit is in her throat. So to stimulate it, she\u2019ll have to not only give a man head, but go all the way down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I say that this is \u201cthe blow job scene\u201d and put it in quotes like that, you have to realize that I mean this is the blow job scene<\/em>. This is the scene that caused the sensation all over America and gave the movie its title. Eager to find out if the doctor is right, Linda does the totally obvious thing and sucks his cock. After all, wouldn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s one of the many reasons I love pornography and porn films, they have a logical consistency in that everything that happens drives towards people having sex. In an action movie, everything that happens drives towards more action. In a comedy, everything that happens drives towards more laughter. In porn, everything is about fucking. While a porn movie may have a stellar plot line, that plot line revolves around sex and this opens up a state of affairs that we laugh about in the real world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s a joke, \u201cPorn movies start off like that.\u201d A friend might say, hey I ordered pizza and another friend says, \u201cporn movies start off like that you know.\u201d Everyone has a good laugh. That\u2019s weird, if you think about it. No one ever says \u201cHey, I need to go the bank,\u201d and receives \u201cHa! Thrilling heist caper movies start off like that!\u201d as a response. So yes, porn movies have odd logic that leads to sex in strange circumstances, just like action films have similar logic that leads to gunfights on rooftops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, getting back to the story. This is the blow job scene and Linda was a pro, so much so that her name became synonymous with the act for years. While Linda was a hell of a sexual performer in all rights, she will forever be remembered for one thing, her oral sex. She delivers a blow job in the same way Shakespearean actors deliver dialog. She gets her rockets, dams breaking, and bells ringing\u2026 literally. The scene is inter-cut with fireworks, dam busting, and steel men ringing bells. It\u2019s funny, and it\u2019s meant to be, and dammit it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh yes, this is where the film\u2019s title musical track kicks in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No, I\u2019m not making that up and, yes, you read that correctly. Deep Throat<\/em> has a title track that was written specifically for and geared to Linda Lovelace sucking a cock down her throat. It has lyrics, and they\u2019re horrible. Actually the song is the worst one on the soundtrack but, because of what\u2019s going on, and the fact that this is a classic scene of adult film history, you\u2019ll remember the damn song. I do, and it keeps me awake some nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After they wrap things up, Linda wants to marry the Doctor but the Doctor won\u2019t have it because, according to him, his nurse won\u2019t let him. However he takes Linda on as a \u201cphysiotherapist\u201d which is as good a reason as any to dress her in the standard \u201csexy nurse\u201d outfit and send her around to have sex with patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s at this point things start to go a little sideways with the film. It\u2019s not that the entire thing derails or the quality of the sexual performance starts to wane, but it’s like the writers hit this point in their process and then had no idea where to go. I picture someone sitting back, looking at the typewriter, re-reading the last bits of the blow job scene and thinking \u201cWell\u2026 shit. I just solved the problem but I\u2019ve still got to fill about 25 minutes of time.\u201d May as well have some random fuck scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And so they do. That\u2019s not to say the scenes are bad, either. They just feel added in at the end. Yet there is one thing completely worth mentioning because, damn, I\u2019ve never seen anything like it before or since. Remember, the doctor is a psychiatrist. So these patients he\u2019s sending Linda out to service have some weird mental hangup. One guy, he\u2019s obsessed with seeing if, indeed, everything goes better with Coke. Yes, Coca Cola. The doctor himself tells us this as he\u2019s speaking to a Dictaphone and fucking his nurse, the lovely Carol Connors. (She also happens to be the mother of Thora Birch.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Linda arrives at his place, they get undressed, and she blows him. Fine. Then he puts her on the table for some of the old in-and-out. Fine. Everything going according to tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then he takes a small, glass drinking vessel and gently inserts it into her vagina while, I presume, he takes her ass. Uhhhhhh\u2026 fine? I, um, well\u2026. Then he pours some Coca Cola into the glass, inserts a bit of clear surgical tubing, and starts drinking it as he\u2019s fucking her. The background suddenly switches to, I swear to god I\u2019m not making this up, the famous Hilltop Song from the Coca Cola commercials. You know the one, the \u201cI\u2019d like to teach the world to sing\u201d song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At this point, the rational world imploded for a little bit. Then he passes her the tubing so she could enjoy the tasty beverage as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So there\u2019s that, then. It\u2019s a testament to the changing times that Coca Cola or a songwriter didn\u2019t try to sue the distributors out of existence for pirating their song. Then again, that would\u2019ve meant someone at the company had to admit to watching porno. Actually, this is the first of two small acts of musical advertising piracy in this film. The other shows up near the end.<\/p>\n\n\n Throughout the rest of the film, the doc slowly starts to go a tad crazy because he\u2019s getting oversexed, both from Linda and Nurse Carol. However, it\u2019s never really clear if that\u2019s what\u2019s going on because there are times he\u2019s going crazy where otherwise he’s acting okay, speaking to his Dictaphone, and fucking Carol. So who knows? I\u2019m sure someone looked at this and figured, look, do the people want more, plot or pussy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then they answered their own question and moved on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Frankly, I\u2019d love to have seen more of Carol Connors because she\u2019s stunning and has this quiet sexuality about her. She plays well with Reems as the doctor and adds a little more comedy to the movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wrapping up the movie is a scene with Linda doing something quite risqu\u00e9 for the times \u2013 shaving her pussy. Keep in mind that this is the early 70s. If a woman has massive breasts, you can safely assume that they\u2019re real. There wasn\u2019t the big push towards Barbie doll style body images that you see far too much of in modern porn. So throughout this entire film, Linda Lovelace is the only woman with a shaved pussy. Every other woman is completely au natural. Here\u2019s where our second bit of advertising piracy occurs because, as she\u2019s lathering up and shaving off, you can clearly hear the Old Spice whistling jingle tune worked into the background music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This scene sets up the final bit where the doctor explain to his recorder that she\u2019s meeting with Wilbur, a man who likes to pretend to be a rapist\/burglar. Linda flubs her part of the role, but they manage to come to an agreement that they could still have some fun together. Wilbur confesses his love for Linda and asks her to marry him. Sadly, she turns him down. Because of her own condition, she explains, the only a man with a nine inch cock could make her happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He sadly lopes off toward the bed bemoaning that he\u2019s only four inches away from happiness. Linda suggests he calls the Doctor and see if there\u2019s anything he could do. After a brief conversation, Wilbur is delighted to find out that yes, the doctor can fix his problem and cut him down to nine inches. He pulls down his pants and we find out he\u2019s better endowed than some large forest mammals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I suppose we\u2019re to assume he\u2019s got a 13 inch dick, but I\u2019m of the belief that\u2019s wishful thinking. Either way, the movie ends with a bang, or at least with oral sex, and everyone comes away satisfied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After 40 years, the movie holds up surprisingly well. It\u2019s still sexy, still hot, and would still get you and your partner going if you popped it in before sexy times. The controversy surrounding the movie and the use of its title to bring down a President gave it more fame than it was probably due, but then again, it\u2019s controversy makes the mundane into a the classical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the end, Throat<\/em> keeps up its end of the deal. It\u2019s hot, steamy, and just a little funny. It\u2019s the kind of light-hearted fuck flick that\u2019s perfect for couples and the humour makes it so that you too can have a playful sexual experience during or after the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As things go, 1972 was a landmark year. President Richard Nixon ordered the development of a project that seemed right out of the science fiction magazines, something called a Space Shuttle programme. 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