Ordeal

New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1983. Second Edition. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 24 cm. 253, [3] pages. Red dot on top edge. DJ has some sticker residue on the front. Linda Lovelace (born Linda Susan Bozeman; January 10, 1949 - April 22, 2002) was an American pornographic actress known for her performance in the 1972 hardcore film Deep Throat. Although the film was an enormous success at the time, Bozeman later said that her abusive husband, Chuck Traynor, had threatened and coerced her into the performance. In her autobiography Ordeal, she described what went on behind the scenes. She later became a born again Christian and a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement. According to Bozeman, Traynor was charming and attentive at first, then became violent and abusive. She said he forced her to move to New York, where he became her manager, pimp, and husband. Allegedly coerced by Traynor, Bozeman was soon performing as Linda Lovelace in hardcore "loops", short 8 mm silent films made for peep shows. Bozeman starred in a 1969 bestiality film titled Dogarama. She later denied having appeared in the film until several of the original loops proved otherwise. In 2013, Larry Revene, the cameraman who actually shot the film, spoke about it for the first time, during which he asserted that Bozeman was a willing participant and that no coercion took place. Porn star Eric Edwards, who was present for the shoot, has similarly claimed there was no obvious coercion going on and that Bozeman appeared to be a cooperative performer. She also posed for Playboy, Bachelor, and Esquire between 1973 and 1974. In 1971, Bozeman also starred in the golden shower film titled Piss Orgy.[12] In 1972, Bozeman starred in Deep Throat, in which she famously performed deep-throating. The film achieved surprising and unprecedented popularity among mainstream audiences and even a review in The New York Times.[13][14] It played several times daily for over ten years at theaters in the Pussycat Theater chain, where Bozeman did promotions, including leaving her hand and footprints in the concrete sidewalk outside the Hollywood Pussycat. The movie later became one of the first, and highest-grossing, X-rated videotape releases. Linda Lovelace was the star of the pornographic film "Deep Throat. " Details how she was forced into prostitution and pornography, beaten, and raped repeatedly. Also includes information on her later relationships with Sammy Davis, Jr., Hugh Hefner, and others. Good Girl. Obedient Wife. Porn Slave. Deep Throat Was Only The Beginning Linda Bozeman was just twenty-one when she met Chuck Traynor, the man who would change her life. Less than two years later, the girl who wouldn' t let her high school dates get past first base was catapulted to fame she could never have imagined in her wildest dreams or worst nightmares. Linda Bozeman of Yonkers, New York, had become Linda Lovelace, international adult film superstar. The unprecedented success of Deep Throat made porn popular with the mainstream and made Lovelace a household name. But nobody, from the A-list celebrities who touted the movie to the audiences that lined up to see it, knew the truth about what went on behind the scenes. Enslaved by the man who would eventually force her into marriage so that he could control her completely, Linda was beaten savagely with regularity, hypnotized, and raped. She was threatened with disfigurement and death. She was terrorized into prostitution at gun and knifepoint. She was forced to perform unspeakable perversions on film. She made Deep Throat under unimaginable duress. Years later, Linda would come out of hiding to relate her side of the story a modern horror tale of humiliation, betrayal, and violence that would rock the porn industry and put its teller in fear for her life.