...so I watched the documentary, "Inside Deep Throat." Basically, it was a fairly even-handed look into the movie Deep Throat, and its effect on society.
If any of you are tempted to watch it, please be aware that it is loaded with many hardcore scenes (which guarantees that wheel will watch it).
I came away (yeah, I can hear the comments now) with the following insights:
1) Wealthy liberals loved it, and thought that watching it and defending it somehow made them better people.
2) Virtually everyone who was involved in the making of the movie got screwed both literally and figuratively.
3) All of the hopes and asperations of what the movie might produce - with the exception of money - never happened.
4) All of the people behind the movie never made a dime, except the mob.
5) Linda Lovelace is probably the most tragic figure of them all. She was pimped-out by her first husband (boyfriend?), then pimped-out by feminists, and eventually was forced back into porn in order to make a living. She died penniless.
6) All of the high-sounding rhetoric about freedom of expression turned out to be a whole lot of talk. "Porn Chic" eventually de-evolved into little more than continuous humping, grinding, and "films" with bad lighting.
7) It is altogether creepy to listen to a bunch of geriatric sexual revolutionaries talking about the intimite details of the Sexual Revolution, and the various things they did with bodily fluids. In fact, it was rather gross.
8) The only one who made anything of himself was the main actor in the movie, and he did so by converting to Christianity, and selling real estate.
9) Listening to Dr. Ruth Westinheimer (sp:?) talk about sex is the one sure way of making sure that you'll never get aroused by this documentary.
10) Deep Throat had so much an effect on society that modern-day porn stars admit that they've never seen the movie, don't know what it was about, or who was in it. Then again, they don't have to.
11) By the time you're done with the movie, you begin to wish the people defined as the "repressors" and prudes had gotten their way.
Let the feeding frenzy begin...