Have You Had Your Sprinkle Today?

Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D, porn actress turned sexologist, addresses the question of whether Linda Lovelace was, as she later claimed, being raped when she made Deep Throat.

"While I do believe that Linda Lovelace was in a co-dependant, sometimes abusive relationship with her husband Chuck, I believe she was not being 'raped' when swallowing Harry Reems' penis on the set of Deep Throat. I swallowed Harry Reems' penis several times, both on film sets and off, and while it was never a particularly sensitive, loving, caring experience, it certainly was never cruel - just sexy fun. Also having been very close to Gerard Damiano, I know that he doesn't have a mean bone in his body. If he sensed that Linda was being 'raped,' he never would have filmed her. She said she had a very rough night with her husband before the filming of Deep Throat. But to blame others for that, like Damiano and Reems, was cruel and hurtful to them. She abused them! If you watch Linda having sex in Deep Throat, you will see that in those moments, she is relatively happy. Still, she will always be my favorite porn star, because she seemed to enjoy having sex so much. I sure do wish Linda Lovelace was alive today."