Porn Legend: Linda Lovelace
Once the top woman of the pornographic industry, her name is now synonymous with the adult entertainment industry's glamorous aspects. In fact, Linda Lovelace began the trend of becoming a genuine pornstar and not just a porn actress. But who was Linda Lovelace, how did she get into the pornographic industry. What were the events that led up to her death?
Linda Lovelace biography
The early life
The biography of Linda Lovelace starts out in New York City. Born on January 10th, 1948, her original name was Linda Boreman, and she lived in the Bronx with her family, who was of the working-class variety. Her father worked as a police officer while her mother was a waitress. In her biography, she often said that she wasn't happy in her childhood as her mother was cruel and oppressive. While she was in school, she attended a Catholic elementary school, middle school, and high school. In high school, Linda was given the nickname Miss holy moly by her fellow peers. She earned his nickname by always keeping a few feet away from any of her dates. She did this so that there would be no reason for sexual activities to begin. It is theorized that her mother taught her this rule.
A forced adoption
Around the age of 16, her entire family moved to the south in Florida. But Linda would not stay in the state for long, especially after how her mother treated her. She experienced the first true tragedy of her life while she was in Florida, as she gave birth to a baby boy in one of the local hospitals and then immediately turned around and gave him up for adoption. Her mother forced her to give up her child for adoption. In her biography, she even says that she unwillingly signed over the guardianship documentation to the couple who was taking her son away from her.
Contracting Hepatitis
Three years later, at the age of 19, she returned to New York City because she wanted to attend computer school. While studying in New York, she would be hit with the second tragedy of her life. One day, she was in a major car accident that caused her to lose blood. The EMTs in the hospital gave her a blood transfusion to recover from the extensive blood loss. However, the blood that they gave her was not adequately examined. So the blood that she was given contained hepatitis, and she contracted it through the transfusion.
She had no one that she could count on in New York City, so she moved back to Florida so our parents could take care of her.
And then she meets her husband
And then she met her boyfriend Chuck Traynor, which would be the third biggest tragedy of her life. At the beginning of the relationship, he showered love and affection upon Linda, and she fell for his actions hook, line, & sinker.
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Unfortunately for her, her boyfriend turned out to be extremely abusive and confiscate any money that she earned to use for himself. He made her move back up to New York City with him and eventually married her. After they were married, he decided to use her in his small-time pornographic films. These small pornographic films were called loops, which were made specifically for peep shows. Each Loop was about a few minutes long and was traditionally not that explicit. However, she acted in the hardcore version.
Shortly after she started filming loops, her husband trainer creative a created a bestiality film starring Linda along with a dog. The movie was called Dogarama.
Linda's attitude toward's starring in the film is debatable. Linda herself said that she definitely didn't want to be in the movie, but her husband kept forcing her to perform. However, her husband, the cameraman who shot the and the porn star Eric Edwards sad that Linda was wholly compliant and had no complaints. However, after the movie came out, she absolutely denied staring in the movie until she was confronted with actual video evidence of her performing in it.
After the bestiality movie, she also appeared in the adult film Piss Orgy.
It was while she was married to Traynor that she starred in the movie Deep Throat. Deepthroat made her a true pornstar as she became famous for it. However, she never wanted to be in the film in the first place. It was at the cruel hand of her husband that she was forced to be in the movie.
Unfortunately for her, the movie that she hated so much made her a household name. Even the New York Times gave a review of Deep Throat. For the next ten years, the theater chain called pussycat theater played deepthroat nearly every day. It was also the highest-grossing x-rated movie so far, as it got any revenue of over six hundred million dollars. Unfortunately, Linda never saw any of that money. She was only paid $1,250, and it was immediately taken from her by her husband.
After the movie Deep Throat, Linda was in a number of poorly performing adults and regular films. A few years later, she left her husband trainer and married David Winters. With Winters, she decided to have children and leave the pornography business forever.
In 1987, she had to undergo a liver transplant because the hepatitis was still ravaging her body. It was a success, and she lived on for 15 more years until she was in a major automobile accident that caused massive trauma along with internal bleeding. They took him off life support, and she died on April 22nd, 2002. She was finally put to rest at the Parker Cemetery in Colorado
Conclusion
Linda Boreman's story shows how much power and control abusive men have over women, no matter what industry they're in. By forcing her to do many pornographic movies against her will, it also shows the adult film industry is an industry that is ripe with sexual exploitation and manipulation.