Ordeal Author: Mike McGrady | Language: English | ISBN:
B0094IVLE8 | Format: EPUB
Ordeal Description
Good Girl. Obedient Wife.
Porn Slave.
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 wouldn’t let her high school dates get past first base was catapulted to fame she could never have imagined in her wildest dreams--or 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 story--a modern horror tale of humiliation, betrayal, and violence that would rock the porn industry and put its teller in fear for her life...
Ordeal
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 Meese’s Commission on Pornography in 1986. She died in Denver on April 22, 2002, due to severe injuries in a car accident.
Journalist and former syndicated columnist Mike McGrady(Newsday, Los Angeles Times) has written many books, and he was the chief catalyst for the bestselling novel Naked Came the Stranger.
- File Size: 434 KB
- Print Length: 288 pages
- Publisher: Citadel (October 2, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0094IVLE8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,032 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #44
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Actors & Actresses - #44
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Entertainers - #56
in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Leaders & Notable People > Rich & Famous
- #44
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Actors & Actresses - #44
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Entertainers - #56
in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Leaders & Notable People > Rich & Famous
Linda Lovelace's third book (and the first to be directly quoted from her, instead of other sources) unwinds a horror tale of abuse at the hands of her crudely ambitious husband, Chuck Traynor. Chuck appeared at a time in Linda's life when she was feeling restricted by her parents at age 21, and had a poor self-image. She lapped up his flattery and "star treatment" at first, since he seemed to be an "important businessman". Later, his behavior was straight out of a "cult recruits" manual: get girl to rebel against her parents, remove her (symbolic) umbilical cord, then attach your own cord and make her your love slave. After this, Chuck's methods went from pouring on the charm to veiled threats to outright abuse (classic pimp profile). Linda relays nightmarish stories in which she was regularly subjected to rape, prositution and physical pain. One day, Chuck just happened to trot her out to another crudely ambitious filmmaker, who was fascinated by Linda's talent for oral sex. The movie "Deep Throat" was born, and the rest, as they say, was history. Linda maintains that she never had the strength or courage to leave Chuck until all of these celebrities (like Hugh Hefner and Sammy Davis, Jr.) became part of her life, and in effect, took away some of Chuck's power over her.
Some skeptics have suggested that Linda's book is a potboiler to make money now that she can't get any more pornography work (because of her age). There are certainly sections that I felt Linda could have elaborated on, such as her getting pregnant as a young adult, and giving up her baby for adoption.
I'm an ex-sex worker. I now belong to Sex Workers Anonymous. I've lived this industry and I know the crowd Linda spoke about in her books. She had the courage to write about what wasn't just her experiences - but also many of ours experiences - but we go off into hiding and fear once we leave rather then speak out like she did knowing what it could and did cost her. I watched while people who knew nothing of this industry attacked her for speaking out about this industry doing what men do - always blame the woman/victim. Speaking out about what really goes on in this world affected her health deeply from the stress and contributed to her early death I'm sure. She's not the only one who had lasting health problems to deal with after having left the sex industry though no fault of her own. In America - a man can go to jail for raping his wife - but not for raping a sex worker. What people don't realize is that many of these men, women and children are living out Linda's story - they can't get out without fear of themselves being killed or their family members. I knew a pimp once who would hold a woman's child hostage until she came back each night with "his" money. One night she got arrested and wasn't able to come home on time. The pimp cut off the left arm of this six year old girl. Anyone who thinks you can't be held in this business against your will - obviously hasn't been there and should shut up about something they know nothing about. I consider Linda a martyr for taking all the guff she took to tell our stories and to try to enlighten people about what goes on every day - but we don't have the guts to tell about our stories ourselves. Anyone who wants to know what this industry can really be like - should read her stories.
Ordeal Preview
Link
Please Wait...