Inside Deep Throat
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:02:03
I was once out strolling
one very hot summer's day

:02:07
Oh, yeah, there was
a screening in some
psychoanalyst's apartment

:02:11
and everybody
watched and smoked dope.
Oh, yeah.

:02:14
I dreamed I was
in a Hollywood movie

:02:18
That I was the star
of the movie

:02:22
This really blew my mind
:02:24
(Dr, Westheimer)
I thought, ''Fantastic,

:02:26
''This is going to change
the climate

:02:29
''of talking about
issues of sexuality

:02:32
in these United States.''
:02:34
Spill the wine
and take that pearl

:02:39
(Dick Cavett)
I'm one of the handful
of people who never saw it,

:02:42
l didn't intend to not see it.
:02:44
[clattering]
:02:46
Perhaps you could
arrange for me to see it.

:02:49
Now.
:02:50
[machine humming]
:02:51
[projector whirring]
:03:01
(Camille Paglia)
Deep Throat was
an epochal moment

:03:04
in the history
of modern sexuality.

:03:06
lt is the first time
that respectable
middle-class women

:03:09
went to porn theaters,
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It really broke down,
:03:15
uh, traditional codes
of--of decorum,

:03:20
(Hugh Hefner)
Linda Lovelace,

:03:22
and conversations,
and jokes about Deep Throat,

:03:25
appeared
on network television,

:03:26
lf the film
became mainstream,

:03:29
conversation about it
became truly mainstream.

:03:31
lt's kind of
a strange country, isn't it?

:03:33
Judges can see Deep Throat,
but they can't listen
to those tapes.

:03:36
[audience laughing]
:03:38
(Hefner)
I think the major thing
that set, uh,

:03:40
Deep Throat apart was,
:03:42
it had a gimmick.
:03:43
Ah! Ah--ah!
:03:45
well, there it is,
you little bugger,
there it is.

:03:48
what?
:03:50
Your clitoris, it's deep down
in the bottom of your throat.

:03:53
[crying]
:03:54
The clitoris
hidden in the throat

:03:56
was something
you could talk about
and laugh about.

:03:59
lt's better than having
no clitoris at all.


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