her throat muscles in order to minimize the pain o f deep
thrusting to the bottom o f her throat. She was brought into
prostitution and pornography through seduction and gang
rape, a not uncommon combination. Her lover turned her
over without warning to five men in a motel room to whom
he had sold her without her knowledge. Neither her screams
nor her begging stopped them. She was beaten on an almost
daily basis, humiliated, threatened, including with guns, kept
captive and sleep-deprived, and forced to do sex acts ranging
from “ deep throat” oral sex to intercourse and sodom y to
being penetrated by objects both vaginally and anally to
bestiality. Her escape from sexual slavery and her subsequent
life as a mother, school teacher, and antipornography activist
is a triumph o f the human spirit— part o f an unambiguous
discourse o f triumph. See Linda Lovelace with Mike
M cGrady, Ordeal, Citadel Press, 1980; see also Lovelace with
M cGrady, Out of Bondage, Lyle Stuart Inc., 1986.