Linda Lovelace

Boreman was born on January 10, 1949,{{cite news|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/10/UPI-Almanac-for-Friday-Jan-10-2020/8011578535365/ |title= UPI Almanac for Friday, Jan. 10, 2020 |work= United Press International | date= January 10, 2020|access-date=February 1, 2020 |archive-date= January 15, 2020|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200115192229/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/09/UPI-Almanac-for-Thursday-Jan-9-2020/6871578415895/|url-status=live|quote=… X-rated film actor Linda Lovelace in 1949}} in The Bronx, New York, into a working-class family.Standora, Leo (April 23, 2002). [http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/ex-porn-star-lovelace-dies-crash-article-1.489218 "Ex-Porn Star Lovelace Dies After Crash"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130715061043/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/ex-porn-star-lovelace-dies-crash-article-1.489218 |date=July 15, 2013}}. Daily News. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090904031323/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2002/04/23/2002-04-23_ex-porn_star_lovelace_dies_a.html WebCitation archive]. She described her upbringing in an unhappy family, as the daughter of John Boreman, a police officer who was seldom home, and Dorothy Boreman (née Tragney), a waitress who was harsh, unloving, and domineering.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1391959/Linda-Lovelace.html "Linda Lovelace"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180524155836/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1391959/Linda-Lovelace.html |date=May 24, 2018}}. The Daily Telegraph. April 24, 2002 She attended private Catholic schools, including Saint John the Baptist (Yonkers, New York) and Maria Regina High School. Linda was nicknamed "Miss Holy Holy" in high school because she kept her dates at a safe distance to avoid sexual activity.{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-briggs042502.asp |title=Linda's Life |access-date=March 16, 2007 |last=Briggs |first=Joe Bob |date=April 25, 2002 |work=National Review |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070329001130/http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-briggs042502.asp |archive-date=March 29, 2007 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}} When Boreman was 16, her family moved to Davie, Florida, after her father retired from the New York City Police Department.{{cite web |url=http://www.arlindo-correia.org/linda_lovelace.html |title=Linda Lovelace |publisher=Arlindo-correia.org |access-date=2013-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121111505/http://www.arlindo-correia.org/linda_lovelace.html |archive-date=January 21, 2013 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}}

At the age of 20, she gave birth to her first child born out of wedlock, whom her mother tricked her into putting up for adoption. Shortly afterwards, she returned to New York City to live and go to computer school. There, she was in a car crash, sustaining injuries that were serious enough to require her to undergo a blood transfusion. The transfused blood had not been properly screened for hepatitis contamination, which caused her to need a liver transplant 18 years later.

While recovering at the home of her parents, Boreman became involved with Chuck Traynor. According to Boreman, 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,Lovelace, Linda; McGrady, Mike (2000). Ordeal. Citadel Press. p. 110–114. {{ISBN|0-8065-0687-3}}. Boreman was soon performing as Linda Lovelace in hardcore "loops", short 8 mm silent films made for peep shows.[http://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/05/12/podcast-010-larry-revene-loops-and-organized-crime-2/ Larry Revene: Loops and Organized Crime] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731030225/http://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/05/12/podcast-010-larry-revene-loops-and-organized-crime-2/ |date=July 31, 2013}}, [http://www.therialtoreport.com/ The Rialto Report] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727225038/http://www.therialtoreport.com/ |date=July 27, 2013}}, May 12, 2013.

Boreman starred in a 1969 bestiality film titled Dogarama (also known as Dog 1, Dog Fucker and Dog-a-Rama).{{cite journal |last1=Bourke |first1=Joanna |title=Bestiality, Zoophilia and Human–Animal Sexual Interactions |journal=Paragraph |date=March 2019 |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=91–115 |doi=10.3366/para.2019.0290 |url=https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/22369/ |access-date=20 May 2024 |issn=0264-8334}}{{cite book |last1=Saraccino |first1=Carmine |last2=Scott |first2=Kevin M. |title=The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here |url=https://archive.org/details/porningofamerica0000sarr_n7d5 |url-access=registration |year=2008 |publisher=Beacon Press |location=Boston, MA |isbn=978-0807061534 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/porningamericari00sarr/page/n35 15]–16}} She later denied having appeared in the film until several of the original loops proved otherwise.Linda Lovelace, Ordeal, pages 105–113 and 194, cited by [https://web.archive.org/web/20021211211529/http://www.farinc.org/newsletter/v8_n3-4_94/petaporn2.html "PETA and a Pornographic Culture, II"]. by Carol Adams, Feminists for Animal Rights, April 1994. Retrieved July 17, 2007. In 2013, Larry Revene, the cameraman who actually shot the film, spoke about it for the first time, during which he asserted that Boreman 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 Boreman appeared to be a cooperative performer.{{cite web |url=http://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/10/06/eric-edwards-twilight-of-a-shy-porn-star-podcast-22/ |title=Eric Edwards: Twilight of a Shy Porn Star |date=October 6, 2013 |access-date=August 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810090028/http://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/10/06/eric-edwards-twilight-of-a-shy-porn-star-podcast-22/ |archive-date=August 10, 2016 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}}

In 1971, Boreman also starred in the golden shower film titled Piss Orgy.{{cite book |last1=Saraccino |first1=Carmine |last2=Scott |first2=Kevin M. |title=The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here |url=https://archive.org/details/porningamericari00sarr |url-access=limited |year=2008 |publisher=Beacon Press |location=Boston, MA |isbn=978-0807061534 |page=[https://archive.org/details/porningamericari00sarr/page/n36 16]}}

In 1972, Boreman starred in Deep Throat, in which she performed deep-throating. The film achieved surprising and unprecedented popularity among mainstream audiences and even a review in the New York Times.Canby, Vincent. New York Times. January 21, 1973Bronstein, Carolyn. [https://books.google.com/books?id=EYheMTwz2qIC&dq=vincent+canby%2C+deep+throat&pg=PA75 Battling Pornography: The American Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement, 1976–1986] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729194303/http://books.google.com/books?id=EYheMTwz2qIC&pg=PA75&dq=vincent+canby,+deep+throat&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wC6nT9jRCLGf6QH-tsynBA&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=vincent%20canby%2C%20deep%20throat&f=false |date=July 29, 2014}}. 2011. Cambridge University Press. Page 75. Archived at Google Books. Retrieved May 6, 2012. It played several times daily for over ten years at theaters in the Pussycat Theater chain, where Boreman 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. While Deep Throat grossed over $600 million, Boreman was paid only $1,250, which was later confiscated by her husband Traynor.{{Cite web|date=2002-04-23|title=Linda Boreman, 53; Star of 'Deep Throat' Became Advocate Against Porn|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-23-me-linda23-story.html|access-date=2020-06-29|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}{{Cite book|last=Segaloff|first=Nat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5KtuDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Deep+Throat%22+she+was+paid+only+%241%2C250&pg=PT71|title=Screen Saver Too: Hollywood Strikes Back|date=2017-10-08|publisher=BearManor Media|language=en}}

In December 1973, Boreman made her theater debut in Pajama Tops at the Locust Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The production suffered disappointing box office performance, which led it to close early, and Boreman's performance was panned.{{cite news|last1=Collins|first1=William B.|title=Critic Raps Linda's Latest Acting Effort|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/anonymous-celebrity-clipping-dec-29-1973-434993|access-date=26 October 2017|agency=Knight Newspapers|newspaper=Willoughby News Herald|date=29 December 1973|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027024846/https://newspaperarchive.com/anonymous-celebrity-clipping-dec-29-1973-434993|archive-date=October 27, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}{{cite news|title=Play is Closing|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/anonymous-celebrity-clipping-jan-15-1974-437676|access-date=26 October 2017|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=Uniontown Evening Standard|date=15 January 1974|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027024844/https://newspaperarchive.com/anonymous-celebrity-clipping-jan-15-1974-437676|archive-date=October 27, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}

In 1974, Boreman starred in the R-rated sequel, Deep Throat II, which was not as well received as the original had been; one critic, writing in Variety, described it as "the shoddiest of exploitation film traditions, a depressing fast buck attempt to milk a naïve public."

In 1975, Boreman left Traynor for David Winters, the producer of her 1975 film Linda Lovelace for President, which co-starred Micky Dolenz. The film showed her on the campaign trail following a cross-country bus route mapped out in the shape of a penis. However, her career as an actress failed to flourish, and her film appearances add up to five hours of screen time. In her 1980 autobiography Ordeal, Lovelace maintained that those films used leftover footage from Deep Throat; however, she frequently contradicted this statement. She also posed for Playboy, Bachelor, and Esquire between 1973 and 1974.{{cite book |last1=Saraccino |first1=Carmine |last2=Scott |first2=Kevin M. |title=The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here |url=https://archive.org/details/porningamericari00sarr |url-access=limited |year=2008 |publisher=Beacon Press |location=Boston, MA |isbn=978-0807061534 |page=[https://archive.org/details/porningamericari00sarr/page/n35 15]}}

During the mid-1970s, she took to smoking large quantities of marijuana combined with painkillers, and after her second marriage and the birth of her two children, she left the pornographic film business.

In 1974, she published two "pro-porn" autobiographies, Inside Linda Lovelace and The Intimate Diary of Linda Lovelace.

In 1976, she was chosen to play the title role in the erotic movie Forever Emmanuelle (also known as Laure). However, according to the producer Ovidio G. Assonitis, Lovelace was "very much on drugs" at the time. She had already signed for the part when she avowed that "God had changed [her] life", refused to do any nudity, and even objected to a statue of the Venus de Milo on the set because of its exposed breasts. She was replaced by French actress Annie Belle.Statement by producer Ovidio Assonitis in the featurette "Emmanuelle Exposed" on the 2007 DVD release of Laure (1976), Universal Product Code 891635001230

In January 1977, she briefly returned to theater acting in a Las Vegas production of My Daughter's Rated X, but the show closed early and her acting performance was criticized.{{cite news |last1=Kerrigan |first1=Mike |title=Linda in Vegas: Name's the Game |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43361752/the_los_angeles_times/ |access-date=31 January 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2 February 1977}}

In her suit to divorce Traynor, she alleged that he forced her into pornography at gunpoint and that in Deep Throat bruises from his beatings can be seen on her legs. She alleged that her husband "would force her to do these things by pointing a rifle at her head." Boreman said in her autobiography that her marriage had been plagued by violence, rape, forced prostitution and private pornography. She wrote in Ordeal:

{{Blockquote|When in response to his suggestions I let him know I would not become involved in prostitution in any way and told him I intended to leave, [Traynor] beat me and the constant mental abuse began. I literally became a prisoner, I was not allowed out of his sight, not even to use the bathroom, where he watched me through a hole in the door. He slept on top of me at night, he listened to my telephone calls with a .45 automatic eight shot pointed at me. I suffered mental abuse each and every day thereafter. He undermined my ties with other people and forced me to marry him on advice from his lawyer.

My initiation into prostitution was a gang rape by five men, arranged by Mr. Traynor. It was the turning point in my life. He threatened to shoot me with the pistol if I didn't go through with it. I had never experienced anal sex before and it ripped me apart. They treated me like an inflatable plastic doll, picking me up and moving me here and there. They spread my legs this way and that, shoving their things at me and into me, they were playing musical chairs with parts of my body. I have never been so frightened and disgraced and humiliated in my life. I felt like garbage. I engaged in sex acts in pornography against my will to avoid being killed ... The lives of my family were threatened.{{cite book |first=Catherine A. |last=MacKinnon |title=Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues |publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |date=2006}}}}

Boreman's accusations provoked mixed responses. Traynor admitted to striking Lovelace but said it was part of a voluntary sex game. In Legs McNeil's and Jennifer Osborne's 2005 book The Other Hollywood, several witnesses, including Deep Throat director Gerard Damiano, state that Traynor beat Boreman behind closed doors, but they also question her credibility. Eric Edwards, Boreman's co-star in the bestiality films and other loops that featured her urinating on her sex partners, similarly discounts her credibility. According to Edwards, Boreman was a sexual "super freak" who had no boundaries and was a pathological liar. Adult film actress Gloria Leonard was quoted as saying, "This was a woman who never took responsibility for her own ... choices made; but instead blamed everything that happened to her in her life on porn." Corroboration for Lovelace's claims came from Andrea True, Lovelace's co-star in Deep Throat 2, who, on a commentary DVD track of the documentary Inside Deep Throat, stated that Traynor was a sadist and was disliked by the Deep Throat 2 cast. Andrea Dworkin stated that the results of polygraph tests administered to Boreman support her assertions.{{cite book |title=In Harm's Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |first1=Catharine |last1=MacKinnon |author-link1=Catharine MacKinnon |first2=Andrea |last2=Dworkin |author-link2=Andrea Dworkin |date=1997 |url=https://archive.org/details/inharms_xxx_1997_00_8191 |url-access=registration |isbn=0-674-44578-3 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/inharms_xxx_1997_00_8191/page/206 206]–213}} Moreover, psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman notes that many details in Lovelace's memoir Ordeal are consistent with a diagnosis of complex PTSD, such as Lovelace's description of a fragmented personality in the aftermath of alleged abuse.{{cite journal |first=Judith |last=Herman |title=Complex PTSD: A Syndrome in Survivors of Prolonged and Repeated Trauma |journal=Journal of Traumatic Stress |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |location=Hoboken, NJ |volume=5 |issue=3 |date=1992 |pages=377–391|doi=10.1002/jts.2490050305 }}

Eric Danville, a journalist who covered the porn industry for nearly 20 years and wrote The Complete Linda Lovelace in 2001, said Boreman never changed her version of events that had occurred 30 years earlier with Traynor. When Danville told Boreman of his book proposal, he said she was overcome with emotion and saddened he had uncovered the bestiality film, which she had initially denied making and later maintained she had been forced to star in at gunpoint.[http://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/09/08/deep-throat-damiano-lovelace-and-lovelace-podcast-20/ Deep Throat: Damiano, Lovelace.. and “Lovelace”] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929144542/http://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/09/08/deep-throat-damiano-lovelace-and-lovelace-podcast-20/ |date=September 29, 2013}}, The Rialto Report, 8 September 2013

Boreman maintained that she received no money for Deep Throat and that the $1,250 payment for her appearance was taken by Traynor.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=20020424&id=MatAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9SAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=5389,6849030 "Linda Lovelace dies at 53 of injuries suffered in car accident"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517064240/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=20020424&id=MatAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9SAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=5389,6849030 |date=May 17, 2017}}. Lodi News-Sentinel. April 24, 2002. Page 15. Archived at Google News.

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In 1976, Boreman married Larry Marchiano, a cable installer who later owned a drywall business. They had two children, Dominic (born 1977) and Lindsay (born 1980). They lived in Center Moriches, a small town on Long Island. Boreman was then going through the liver transplant that her injuries from the automobile accident had necessitated, owing to the poorly screened blood she received in the transfusions. For a while, marriage and particularly motherhood brought her some stability and happiness. However, Marchiano's business went bankrupt in 1990, and the family moved to Colorado.

In The Other Hollywood, Boreman painted a largely unflattering picture of Marchiano, claiming he drank to excess, verbally abused their children, and was occasionally violent with her. They divorced in 1996 but remained on good terms and were in contact until the end of her life.

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With the publication of Ordeal in 1980, Boreman joined the anti-pornography movement. At a press conference announcing Ordeal, she leveled many of the above-noted accusations against Traynor in public for the first time. She was joined by supporters Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, Gloria Steinem, and members of Women Against Pornography. Boreman spoke out against pornography, stating that she had been abused and coerced. She spoke before feminist groups, at colleges, and at government hearings on pornography.

In 1986, Boreman published Out of Bondage, a memoir focusing on her life after 1974. She testified before the 1986 Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, also called the "Meese Commission", in New York City, stating, "When you see the movie Deep Throat, you are watching me being raped.{{Cite web |title=A revolutionary movie or an 'artifact of abuse'? The landmark porn film 'Deep Throat' turns 50. |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/deep-throat-linda-lovelace-debate-legacy-anniversary-180022714.html |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=www.yahoo.com |date=July 9, 2022 |language=en-US}} It is a crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my head the entire time." Following Boreman's testimony for the Meese Commission, she gave lectures on college campuses, decrying what she described as callous and exploitative practices in the pornography industry.

Boreman had contracted hepatitis from the blood transfusion she received after her 1970 car accident{{cite book|last1=Lovelace|first1=Linda|last2=McGrady|first2=Mike|title=Ordeal|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=6vWTP4QMsncC&q=Linda+Lovelace+hepatitis&pg=PA7| year=2006|publisher=Citadel Press|isbn=0-8065-2774-9|page=7}} and underwent a liver transplant in 1987.{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9B0DE4DD1F3AF934A35750C0A961948260 |title=New Liver for Linda Lovelace |access-date=March 16, 2007 |agency=Reuters |date=March 7, 1987 |work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220155348/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9B0DE4DD1F3AF934A35750C0A961948260 |archive-date=December 20, 2008 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}} In 2001, she was featured on E! True Hollywood Story and did a lingerie pictorial as Linda Lovelace for the magazine Leg Show.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/porn-again-christian-29541028.html|title=Porn-again Christian|author=Whitington, Paul|work=Irish Independent|date=September 1, 2013|access-date=September 5, 2020}}

On April 3, 2002, Boreman was involved in another automobile accident, suffering massive trauma and internal injuries. On April 22, she was taken off life support and died at the age of 53. Marchiano and their two children were present when she died.{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/linda-lovelace-dies/ |title='Linda Lovelace' Dies |last=de Vries |first=Lloyd |date=April 23, 2002 |work=CBS News |access-date=August 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006004022/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/23/entertainment/main506940.shtml |archive-date=October 6, 2013 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }} Boreman was interred at Parker Cemetery in Parker, Colorado.Smith, Lori (February 1, 2012). [http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_19859990 "People: 'Big' wants scene with Sarah Jessica Parker in 'Lovelace'"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006004858/http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_19859990 |date=October 6, 2013}}. The Denver Post.Peterson, Eric. [https://books.google.com/books?id=eJvSOzkr5pcC&dq=boreman%2C+Parker+Cemetery&pg=PA25 Ramble Colorado: A Wanderer's Guide to the Offbeat, Overlooked, and Outrageous] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316130322/https://books.google.com/books?id=eJvSOzkr5pcC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=boreman,+Parker+Cemetery&source=bl&ots=d-atZKS0c6&sig=C6mls1rq37K2D9BoojTnLoxURao&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WySnT9X4PMjN6QHomISaBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=boreman%2C%20Parker%20Cemetery&f=false |date=March 16, 2017}}. Archived at Google Books. Retrieved May 6, 2012.

The computer processing coordination system Linda was named after Linda Lovelace. This name choice was inspired by the programming language Ada, which was named after computer pioneer Ada Lovelace.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/19/business/david-gelernter-s-romance-with-linda.html?scp=1&sq=David%20Gelernter%20began%20doctoral%20studies%20Stony%20Brook&st=cse&pagewanted=all |work=The New York Times |title=David Gelernter's Romance With Linda |first=John |last=Markoff |date=January 19, 1992 |access-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422151243/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/19/business/david-gelernter-s-romance-with-linda.html?scp=1&sq=David%20Gelernter%20began%20doctoral%20studies%20Stony%20Brook&st=cse&pagewanted=all |archive-date=April 22, 2016 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}}

Boreman's participation in Deep Throat was among the topics explored in the 2005 documentary Inside Deep Throat.

Indie pop singer and songwriter Marc with a C released a 2008 album titled Linda Lovelace for President, which contained a song of the same name.{{cite web |url=https://marcwithac.bandcamp.com/album/linda-lovelace-for-president |title=Linda Lovelace For President |author=Marc with a C |website=Marc with a C Official Page |access-date=September 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918090539/https://marcwithac.bandcamp.com/album/linda-lovelace-for-president |archive-date=September 18, 2016 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}}

The country songwriter and singer David Allan Coe wrote a song called "Linda Lovelace"{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/David-Allan-Coe-Band-The-Nothing-Sacred/release/6864166 |title=The David Allan Coe Band* - Nothing Sacred |website=Discogs |access-date=2016-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230090315/https://www.discogs.com/David-Allan-Coe-Band-The-Nothing-Sacred/release/6864166 |archive-date=December 30, 2016 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}} which is featured on his 1978 album Nothing Sacred. The same song appears on his 1990 album 18 X-Rated Hits under the title "I Made Linda Lovelace Gag".{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/David-Allan-Coe-18-X-Rated-Hits-The-Best-of-Both-X-Rated-Albums/release/8140576 |title=David Allan Coe - 18 X-Rated Hits - The Best of Both X-Rated Albums |website=Discogs |access-date=2016-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230090515/https://www.discogs.com/David-Allan-Coe-18-X-Rated-Hits-The-Best-of-Both-X-Rated-Albums/release/8140576 |archive-date=December 30, 2016 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}}

In 2008, Lovelace: A Rock Musical, based on two of Boreman's four autobiographies, debuted at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles. The score and libretto were written by Anna Waronker of the 1990s rock group That Dog, and Charlotte Caffey of the 1980s group the Go-Go's.{{cite web |author=Verini, Bob |url=https://variety.com/2008/legit/markets-festivals/lovelace-a-rock-opera-1200471275/ |title=Review: 'Lovelace a Rock Opera' |publisher=Variety |date=October 27, 2008 |access-date=September 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916034000/https://variety.com/2008/legit/markets-festivals/lovelace-a-rock-opera-1200471275/ |archive-date=September 16, 2016 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}}

Lovelace is one of the main characters of the 2010 stage play The Deep Throat Sex Scandal by David Bertolino. The play follows the life and early career of Harry Reems as he enters the pornography industry, eventually filming Deep Throat and its resultant infamy and obscenity trial in Memphis, Tennessee, and Lovelace is a central figure. In July 2013, an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to make a film version of the play raised over $25,000.{{cite web|url=http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-deep-throat-sex-scandal-movie--13/|title=The Deep Throat Sex Scandal Movie|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807011446/http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-deep-throat-sex-scandal-movie--13|archive-date=7 August 2013|website=Indiegogo}}

As of 2011, two biographical films on Boreman were scheduled to begin production.[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/04/linda-lovelace-lindsay-lohan-movie-inferno.html A Linda Lovelace movie (or two) fights on] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131101638/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/04/linda-lovelace-lindsay-lohan-movie-inferno.html |date=January 31, 2012}}, 24 Frames (blog), Los Angeles Times, April 28, 2011.[http://business.avn.com/articles/video/The-Race-to-Release-the-First-Linda-Lovelace-Biopic-434843.html The Race to Release the First Linda Lovelace Biopic] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208103720/http://business.avn.com/articles/video/The-Race-to-Release-the-First-Linda-Lovelace-Biopic-434843.html |date=February 8, 2012}} by Mark Kernes, AVN, May 2, 2011. One, titled Lovelace, went into general release on August 9, 2013, with Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman directing, Amanda Seyfried as Lovelace, and Peter Sarsgaard as Chuck Traynor. Lovelace received a limited release in 2013, but ultimately, despite drawing many positive reviews, it was a box-office failure. The other, titled Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story,[http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/malin-akerman-hoping-her-lovelace-film-is-finished-before-kate-hudsons_1214921 "Malin Akerman Hoping Her Lovelace Film Is Finished Before Kate Hudson's"], ContractMusic.com, April 25, 2011. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121102215452/http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/malin-akerman-hoping-her-lovelace-film-is-finished-before-kate-hudsons_1214921 WebCitation archive]. starring Malin Åkerman, was to be directed by Matthew Wilder and produced by Chris Hanley and was scheduled to begin filming in early 2011.{{cite web |last=Pham |first=Thailan |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20444040,00.html |title=Lindsay Lohan Loses Porn Biopic Role to Malin Akerman – Lindsay Lohan, Malin Akerman |work=People |date=November 21, 2010 |access-date=February 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131102730/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20444040,00.html |archive-date=January 31, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}{{cite web |author=Finke, Nikki |author-link=Nikki Finke |url=https://deadline.com/2010/11/lindsay-lohan-dumped-for-malin-ackerman-in-matthew-wilders-linda-lovelace-biopic-85939/ |title=Lindsay Lohan Dumped For Malin Akerman In Matthew Wilder's Linda Lovelace Biopic – |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=November 20, 2010 |access-date=February 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122133617/http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/lindsay-lohan-dumped-for-malin-ackerman-in-matthew-wilders-linda-lovelace-biopic/ |archive-date=January 22, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}} Due to a lack of financing it never went into production.

Tina Yothers, who was a child actress on Family Ties, was cast as Lovelace in Lovelace: The Musical.

• Dogarama (1969)
• Piss Orgy (1971)
• Deep Throat (1972)
• The Confessions of Linda Lovelace (1974)
• Deep Throat Part II (1974) as Nurse Lovelace
• Linda Lovelace for President (1975)

• {{cite book |last1=Lovelace |first1=Linda |title=Inside Linda Lovelace |date=1973 |publisher=Pinnacle Books |isbn=978-0-902826-11-3 |language=en}}
• {{cite book |last1=Lovelace |first1=Linda |last2=Wallin |first2=Carl |title=The Intimate Diary of Linda Lovelace |date=1974 |publisher=Pinnacle Books |isbn=978-0-523-00394-8 |language=en}}
• {{cite book |last1=Lovelace |first1=Linda |last2=McGrady |first2=Mike |author2-link=Mike McGrady |title=Ordeal |date=1980 |publisher=Bell Publishing Company |isbn=0-517-42791-5 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Selby |first1=Mike |title=The autobiographies of Linda Lovelace |url=https://www.cranbrooktownsman.com/opinion/the-autobiographies-of-linda-lovelace/ |access-date=12 May 2023 |work=Cranbrook Townsman |date=17 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627234655/https://www.cranbrooktownsman.com/opinion/the-autobiographies-of-linda-lovelace/ |archive-date=2022-06-27 |location=Cranbrook, British Columbia}}{{cite book |last1=Marlowe |first1=Ann |author1-link=Ann Marlowe |editor1-last=Marcus |editor1-first=Greil |editor2-last=Sollors |editor2-first=Werner |editor1-link=Greil Marcus |editor2-link=Werner Sollors |title=A New Literary History of America |publisher=Harvard University Press; Belknap Press |isbn=9780674064102 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1msswhj.207 |access-date=13 May 2023 |chapter=1970; 1972: Linda Lovelace|year=2009 |pages=973–977 |doi=10.2307/j.ctv1msswhj.207 |jstor=j.ctv1msswhj.207 }}{{cite web |title=Greil Marcus - Notes on the making of A New Literary History of America - Part 5 - "The speech of our time" |url=https://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2010/05/greil-marcus-notes-on-the-making-of-a-new-literary-history-of-america-part-5.html |website=Harvard University Press Blog |access-date=13 May 2023}}
• {{cite book |last1=Lovelace |first1=Linda |last2=McGrady |first2=Mike |author2-link=Mike McGrady |url=https://archive.org/details/outofbondage1987love |title=Out of Bondage |date=1986 |publisher=Lyle Stuart |isbn=0-425-10650-0 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Harvey |first1=Brett |title=IN SHORT: NONFICTION |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/06/books/in-short-nonfiction.html |access-date=13 May 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=6 July 1986 |quote=By Linda Lovelace With Mike McGrady (Lyle Stuart, $14.95.) In her 1980 book Ordeal, Linda Lovelace, star of the pornographic movie ...}}

Other books:

• Jack Stevenson (ed): Fleshpot: Cinema's Sexual Myth Makers & Taboo Breakers (Headpress, England 2000), features an interview with Lovelace.

• Women Against Pornography
• Ordeal (autobiography)

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• [http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2010/jun/29/pussycat-theaters-a-comprehensive-history-of-a-cal/ Pussycat Theaters – a Comprehensive History by Jay Allen Sanford, published 6-30-10]
• [http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/07/pussycat-theater-history-when-cathouses-ruled-ca-n/ Pussycat Theater History – San Diego Reader]
• [http://www.arlindo-correia.org/linda_lovelace.html Linda Lovelace (1949–2002)] @Arlindo-Correia.org– Collection of Linda Lovelace obituaries and other articles.
• [http://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/05/12/podcast-010-larry-revene-loops-and-organized-crime-2/ 'Larry Revene: Loops and Organized Crime'], [http://www.therialtoreport.com/ The Rialto Report] An interview with the cameraman on one of Linda Lovelace's loops.
• [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/126933242 Life after Deep Throat], The Canberra Times, 5 July 1992
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• {{iafd name|id=Lovelace|gender=female|name=Linda Lovelace}}
• {{afdb name|id=9235|name=Linda Lovelace}}
• [http://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/09/08/deep-throat-damiano-lovelace-and-lovelace-podcast-20/ Deep Throat: Damiano, Lovelace.. and “Lovelace”] at [http://www.therialtoreport.com/ The Rialto Report], 8 September 2013

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