First Time Ever I Saw Deep Throat

Linda Williams
Author, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"

I saw Deep Throat when it came out.  My husband at the time and I drove with another couple to see it in Denver at one of those Pussycat theaters.  And it was an adventure.  It was definitely the sort of thing that one felt a little bit excited about doing. I remember almost nothing about the film.  I think I can remember the famous explosion, the bombs bursting, bells ringing scene. But as far as being in any way moved by it, my memory of that has been entirely displaced by other films that I saw at the time, a little bit later, that were more powerful.  They were more sexually arousing.  And that was an uncomfortable, interesting thing to feel in a movie theater.

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