Linda Lovelace Biopic

There is a biopic is in the works about the life of Linda Lovelace.  Amanda Seyfried, who is to play Linda, is said by the article to "dirty up" her image as an actor.  Though said more in context to the biopic than as an insult to Amanda it still says something about how acting as a porn star while not even participating in any actual sex is considered dirty.  The story of Linda Lovelace is interesting as it can show the horrible things people can do in the sex industry.

Linda Susan Boreman, otherwise known as Linda Lovelace, was a pornographic porn actor in the 70s who starred in a very successful film called "Deep Throat."  What makes her story one of note is that she claimed that she was forced at gunpoint to work in pornography and even prostitution by her husband at the time.  She claimed she was drugged, raped, and beaten and was even forced into a bestiality film.  While the porn film Deep Throat was said to have earned over 600 million dollars (of which a mafia family profited off of), she claimed that she did not make any money off of it.  She claimed that she was forced into the film and that it was basically footage of her getting raped.  After Linda left the porn industry she became involved in an anti-pornography feminist movement.

I think the story can make you wonder how many other women are forced into porn but don't manage to get free of it or have their stories told.  The term, "Linda Syndrome" was coined to refer to women who were once in porn but have come to decry the industry.  I also wonder, perhaps pessimistically, if some men watching porn would abject if the idea that the actors in the porn they watch may have a gun to their heads, or if some men would like it even more.