The Complete Linda Lovelace

I am not by any means defending the porn industry, I have a neutral position on porn whether if its truly harmful for our society. I purchased this book not because I agree 100% with how the author arranged this compilation of text headlines from decades ago going into 2002.Linda Boreman was abused by both the porn industry and Andrea Dworkin, Catherine Mackinnon and Gloria Steinem(anti porn feminists), Linda goes into detail on how she felt used by the anti platform to further their agendas and how they never were really interested in helping here.Linda in my opinion developed a fair attitude on porn despite the abuse. I believe she did porn because she truly wanted to entertain, and her boyfriend Traynor physically abused her and activists exploited her. She states in the book there's nothing wrong with "looking sexy in good taste"Nothing is black and white. There are a ton of Dowrkin supporters today that ignore the blatant exploitation of Linda by her so called heroines.

This book covers the life of Linda lovelace and answers the question of what became of Linda after she made the most popular porn film in the history of western civilization. I found myself totally engaged in the story.

I was looking forward to reading this, but not a fan of all the QR codes in the book. It doesn’t feel professional, and hard to get past. Why would I want to open my cell phone up to a stranger? Let me read my book.

This book has a lot of information about Linda Lovelace, the world's best known fellatrix! I'm going to purchase another copy soon.

It was a good book

everything about the purchase was positive

Initially I was unpleasantly surprised by "The Complete Linda Lovelace." The book didn't seem to be helping me unravel the mysteries of competing images of this woman. However, in the end, I was very glad I purchased it.My interest started in one of the college composition classes I teach. The theme for the course is "women as victims." One of my students asked me if she could read the book "Ordeal" by Linda Lovelace after she saw the movie based on it. I gave her permission, as I had seen the movie, too. I read and skimmed the book, as well--interesting and useful The student used the book appropriately in a research paper for which she provided additional sources. However, I couldn't help but wonder if "Ordeal"--the book and its movie--was the entire story.I ran across and decided to purchase "The Complete Linda Lovelace." When I opened it, I was at first alarmed that instead of a standard analysis broken into subjects by chapters, the book was just a collection of clippings, ads, reviews, and other articles about Lovelace grouped by time period.. <Much of the early information was useless because I already knew about it, so I skimmed the first half of the book, picking up a few new points here and there.On the other hand, as I read, I realized that the layout was, in fact, giving me a much more accurate historical account because of the first-hand documents. I learned, for example, that Lovelace had been in cheap early porn movies before her famous "Deep Throat," she'd made a porn clip so vile that most or all copies of it were destroyed, and her boyfriend really was, indeed, a cruel master manipulator and likely sociopath who twisted a highly susceptible and fearful person into deeds she hated.My most important discoveries came near the end through one of the last interviews with a then middle-aged Lovelace. By then, for over a decade, she had been a successful housewife and mother. She also explained how she believed that all pornography is always violent. This naivete was understandable to me, the reader, after seeing how she was trained twice to perceive pornography as being violent: first, she herself was cruelly forced to create pornography that she found unpleasant at best and terrible at worst; second, this training continued as people who were violently opposed to pornography used her as an image of how evil pornography can be. One example of this was Lovelace's testimony with--and learning from--activist Andrea Dworkin in Minnesota. Dworkin spread a gospel that all sex acts involving penetration by a male are by their nature inherently violent.In fact, Lovelace seemed to have led such a completely controlled and narrow life, through everything she did until the end of her public life, that she remained very naive about life in general and her own in particular. It is almost as if she spent the first half of her public life being totally controlled by proponents of violent and cruel pornography, and the second half by its opponents. Both images are mythic--neither is quite the full truth.The true Linda Lovelace, if you look carefully at parts of the last half of "The Complete Linda Lovelace," especially the final interview, was probably a very naive young girl who just wanted to be loved and to experience a great married life. My only doubt about this is that she possibly may have borderline personality disorder--which means she would always be testing, and speaking and living from, the borderlines of what is morally and socially acceptable; after all, dysfunction attracts dysfunction, and her her first boyfriend-manager-torturer was highly dysfunctional.However, from all that I can tell in the interview, she now seems to be a relatively normal human being living a rather normal life. If true, then the final version of sex icon Linda Lovelace--as revealed in the book's last interview--is of a still naive, middle-aged, and happy housewife who loves sex and is very liberal about it--as long as it is kind, loving, and fun.

A short and simple guide to the late Lovelace.