A Throat by Any Other Name

The Telegraph has noticed that in all the excitement over the recent revelation of Deep Throat's identity, the origin of the code name is rarely mentioned. "But," says the article, "Deep Throat was a pornographic film of the time, and, as a new documentary to be released on Friday grippingly shows, a phenomenon that had profound effects on modern culture." Fenton Bailey is lavishly quoted in the article, which calls Inside Deep Throat "slick and glossy" with "a funky soundtrack," a documentary that "makes a striking contrast with the amateurish cack-handedness of the film that forms its subject."

Bailey argues that sex is simply a part of everyday life. He doesn't just point to the buffed bodies on every billboard in the Western world. He also mentions the mind-boggling volume of pornography churned out each year. You cannot ignore the statistics that end his documentary. In 2002, Hollywood made 467 movies. That same year, 11,303 adult films were released.