Deep Throat (1972)
Directed by Gerard Damiano
Linda's frustration with her inability to achieve orgasm causes a friend to recommend that she see a sex therapist about her problem. During the exam the therapist discovers that Linda's clitoris is located in her throat and recommends deep throating as a treatment to her ailment. Linda then goes on to experiment with this new technique as she searches for a husband.
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And there's nary a word about John Schlesinger's Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy (1969), Mike Sarne's Myra Breckinridge (1970), Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) or Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) -- all of which were X-rated, mainstream, part of the same cultural revolution and happened to predate Deep Throat.
And there's nary a word about John Schlesinger's Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy (1969), Mike Sarne's Myra Breckinridge (1970), Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) or Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) -- all of which were X-rated, mainstream, part of the same cultural revolution and happened to predate Deep Throat.
All too often, however, their documentary’s stabs at inflating Deep Throat‘s reputation as an instrument of taboo-smashing change is undermined by its sound bite-ready participants’ more juvenile and unwarranted interest in discussing a notorious sex film as if it were Citizen Kane (or even Playboy magazine).
And there's nary a word about John Schlesinger's Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy (1969), Mike Sarne's Myra Breckinridge (1970), Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) or Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) -- all of which were X-rated, mainstream, part of the same cultural revolution and happened to predate Deep Throat.