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When Linda Williams, professor of film studies at UC Berkeley, went to see Inside Deep Throat at an advance screening at the Act 1 Theater in Berkeley, she took a few graduate students along.

"They liked it. They really enjoyed watching it," she said. "When I teach courses on pornography, students are always there and are always interested in Deep Throat.  There are many better porn films of that era, but this was the one that everyone saw and that everyone remembers. I think it deserves the place it has been given by [Inside Deep Throat]."

Williams is the author of various books, including Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible, which devotes an entire chapter to the impact of Deep Throat. "It was almost a rite of passage to be able to say you were there and watched and were willing to be seen as sexually interested. In other words, you don't go to a movie like that without letting the people around you know you are interested in sex."

Williams is currently writing a book about sex-watching in American culture. Inside Deep Throat is sure to get a mention.