Deep Throat - 1972

Okay, class. Time for a pop quiz.

Deep Throat, the infamous 1972 release produced by Gerard Damiano, starring Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems:

1. Pushed porn into the mainstream in the United States
2. Made 10's of millions of dollars
3. Became the target of multiple criminal charges
4. Was a love story
5. All of the above.

The most infamous porno of them all

The answer is 5. Raise your hand if number 4 tripped you up. Until watching it again this week, it would have tripped me up, too. Most of us who saw Deep Throat back in the day remember Linda's impressive talent (and I am not referring to her acting ability), Harry Reems' lunacy and the cars and hairdos that made the early 70's so memorable. The sentimental sub-story line is forgotten.

The movie opens with Linda wandering around town, then cruising in her stylish Cadillac Eldorado.

In fact, we get 5 minutes of wandering and cruising while the opening credits role. Linda finally arrives at home to find her roommate lighting up a cigarette as the delivery boy eats her out on the kitchen counter.

One of these activities  has been determined to be hazardous to your health

We soon find that Linda and her roomie, Helen, apparently do little more than move from one party to the next, but Linda is growing frustrated with her life. As she puts it, "There's got to be more than life to just screwing around." She has reached the point in life that she is ready to settle down, but she doesn't enjoy sex. (Some would argue that when you reach the point of settling down, you are probably looking at giving up sex, for the most part, anyway. But that is a different discussion.)

Helen suggests that perhaps Linda just hasn't found the right guy, so obviously the answer is more meaningless sex with strangers, until she finds a guy that can create those fireworks and exploding bombs that Linda says she is looking for. So she calls every willing guy she can and invites them over to take turns with Linda. Among the crowd is Gerard Damiano himself, playing a comic bit.

Gerard Damiano

Linda fucks multiples guys, even taking it up the ass, while Helen warms the others up in the living room. Soon every one is drained, and poor Linda still hasn't found love. So off she goes to the good doctor Harry Reems who discovers the root of Linda's problems.

Harry Reems and Linda Lovelace

It seems that her clitoris is in her throat. No wonder she can't cum! What she can do, however, is open wide and swallow deep. Very deep. So deep that the Doctor's "probe" is able to elicit those fireworks that Linda has been searching for.

Soon, he makes her a "physiotherapist" and sends her out to make several patients feel much better.  Meanwhile, he stays back at the office and dictates into a machine while he does his busty nurse, played by Carol Connors. Carol, of course, went on to greater fame in her own series of "Candy" movies. I should also mention that one of the lucky invitees to Linda's gang bang was Jack Birch, whom Carol later married. Their union produced the lovely Thora Birch, whom you may know from mainstream movies.

A surprisingly unditzy Carol Connors

Eventually Linda falls for one of her patients, and he has all the necessary requirements to make Linda a very happy girl.

So, a lonely girl's search for true love to rescue her from her empty life concludes with a fairy tale ending. See, I told you it was a love story. Watch it for yourself here.