Ex-Porn Star Linda Lovelace dies at 53

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020423/D7J2D62O0.html

Sad news, really. She didn’t have it all too good during the days she was involved in porn, as it seems her first ex-husband has pushed her into it.

I hope she’s finally been able to find some peace. :frowning:

For some reason I thought she’d choke to death.

Marc

Wanna borrow my flameproof suit, Marc?

Lovelace has been claiming for years that she was “forced” or “tricked” into porn. Riiiiiigghhhtt. That’s why she appeared in dozens of movies over a period of years. There’s no outside evidence besides her own say-so that she ever underwent any ordeal that was anybody’s fault but her own. Nobody else from the porn community of that era has come forward to support her claims. You never hear from the husband that “forced” her into porn. And there have been a lot of people who got caught up in lives of excess who WEREN’T involved in porn.
All in all, I think she just wanted to create as much distance as possible from the person she used to be to who she is now. “Spiritual” conversions that cause a person to do a complete 180 in their world-view are not uncommon.

I never believed she was forced or tricked into performing. I sometimes wondered if she continued to practice her “art” with her new husband after having renounced her life as a porn star.

I’m sorry for her family’s loss, and for any pain she suffered before her death.

But, to be completely honest, my first thought was, “Wow, she looked a lot older than 23 in that movie.”

I read her book Ordeal and just couldn’t shake the feeling that everything she wrote was either false or highly exaggerated. It came across like she desperately needed everyone to believe she really didn’t like what she had participated in.

Sheri

Well she took the high and mighty road for a long time…but I do remember her posing in Hustler after all that heavy postulating against the pron industry.

I dunno. In my mind, its not the job you do but who you are that makes a person. If she was a good person, so be it.

Oh my sweet Jesus, there’s an ASCII version of Deep Throat on the web…

I’d post the URL but it might be considered a link to porn… although I can’t tell what the hell’s going on (I have it open as we speak).

Sorry, but random green characters just don’t turn my crank. :wink:

  • s.e.

So is Linda’s next performance going to be Deep Tract? :wink:

C’mon, guys, that is not cool. If you have to make cracks about someone who just died (relatively) young, at least have the decency to make them really funny . . .


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umm… i thought those cracks were really funny.

although, I did have to look up ‘tract’ in the dictionary before I connected “burial tract” to “digestive tract”. :slight_smile:

Does anybody else find it disturbing that, in a news report of somebody’s death from injuries sustained in a traffic accident, there’s a huge advert for autoweb.com?

As far as Ms. Boreman/Lovelace’s past, I never believed she was forced into anything. Still, it’s pretty clear from her post-porn life that she was traumatized by something that happened during her career. She’s as entitled as anybody else to have a change of heart.

I remember reading sketchy accounts of her doing bestiality movies, namely dogs. Anyone know if that’s true?

While I can find it believable that maybe she was say, pressured by her first husband, I highly doubt she’d be forced at gunpoint.

Well, no way is her death going to make the cover of People magazine. That’s reserved for women who have never put ANYTHING in their mouths.

Apparently so.

  • s.e.

A quick Google search turns up the ascii version. A straight “video to ascii” conversion. Now there’s the ultimate in lossy compression. Not nearly as inspired or hilarious as the ascii Star Wars[sup]TM[/sup]

Yes, 'tis true. I’ll have to look up the paper I wrote on Porn Chic, but in my research, yes, she did make loops with dogs.

I guess we can call of that search for what might have traumatized her so badly.

FOUND!