Page 87 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 14 February 1990
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People have called Linda Lovelace the "Queen of Porn" yet no one realized I was her greatest mourner. I did not choose to be involved: violence, threats and Mr Traynor chose for me.
(Extension of time granted)
I thank the Assembly. The letter continues:
The people in the pornography industry are not kind people. When I tried to say I was being forced, they were aroused, not compassionate or helpful.
The people in the pornography industry did not care about me, who I was or what I felt. They wanted to make a movie and to make money.
After the 1st day of shooting DEEP THROAT I suffered a brutal beating. The entire cast and crew were in the adjoining room having a party.
Mr Traynor started yelling at me, hitting me and bouncing me off of walls and furniture. I decided to scream for help knowing those in the next room would hear me.
The next room became very quiet but no one came to help. They were involved in the pornography industry.
The next day they were all very angry, not about my physical abuse but at the fact that I had bruises on my thighs.
They felt their "sweet, innocent, girl-next-door image" had been damaged.
No one ever asks how the bruises got there, they just always say I had "such a smile" on my face.
I was struck, probed, bruised, poked, beaten, threatened, degraded and used.
I was Linda Lovelace, the victim of DEEP THROAT, not the star. Psychiatrists say the only difference between my story and what is going on in society today is that I lived to tell about it.
How many stories will you never hear? How many times will women be molested and photographed for videos and sex magazines? How many times will we allow children to be influenced by pornography and photographed for sex magazines?
Do you think people got those ideas from watching GONE WITH THE WIND or Walt Disney's BAMBI? Or
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