"Deep Throat" Director Passes Away

Posted by: ragnaroknroll

"Deep Throat" Director Passes Away - 10/28/08 05:41 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/28/director.obit.ap/index.html

Now here's my question: did Deep Throat REALLY launch the pr0n industry as we know it today? Since I was born in 75 I have no perspective on this. Thoughts on this?
Posted by: safado

Re: "Deep Throat" Director Passes Away - 10/28/08 09:04 AM

Quote:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/28/director.obit.ap/index.html

Now here's my question: did Deep Throat REALLY launch the pr0n industry as we know it today? Since I was born in 75 I have no perspective on this. Thoughts on this?



I'm not too much older than you but I believe that Deep Throat was the first and still one of the only XXX films that got play in main stream theaters.

I seen a docu about it once, when it came out it became phenomenon, every one was talking about it openly, admitting they went to go see it (this was at a time when you would NEVER admit you went to see a XXX Porn film).

Because of all of the main stream attention, it made Porn somewhat legit. Up until then Porn was pretty much an underground business and the Talent for the most part were nameless, especially to the general public. Linda Lovelace was probably the first PW who became a "household name"
Posted by: zenman

Re: "Deep Throat" Director Passes Away - 10/28/08 09:32 AM

I was just a kid when it came out, but I remember it was something of a sensation. My mother told me she knew a couple of people talking about how weird it was going into a movie house filled with people watching a porn movie, because most had never seen one much less seen one (only perverts went to porn movies houses in those days)

...and they left the lights on during the whole thing which added to the creepiness!!
Posted by: SexDJ

Re: "Deep Throat" Director Passes Away - 10/28/08 10:22 AM

I was 18 when it came out. I grew up near the city of Binghamton, NY..the only city in the state of NY to NOT declare it illegal at one point or another.
Posted by: Bon Vivant

Re: "Deep Throat" Director Passes Away - 10/30/08 04:40 AM

Gerry Damiano was more than a one trick pony -- he made a lot of great, boundary pushing porn back in the day. The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue and Beyond Your Wildest Dreams were two of his hotter titles. And the Devil in Miss Jones was probably his best acted film.