Deep Throat: Difference between revisions

====Date: [[:Category:1951 - 1975|1951 - 1975]] [[:Category:1975 - 1984|1975 - 1984]] [[:Category:|]]====

====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|{location3}]]====

====Subject: [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]====

====Medium: [[:Category:Film Video|Film Video]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]====

'''Description of Artwork:''' "Deep Throat" is the most financially successful pornographic film ever made.  In the movie co-star Linda Lovelace plays a woman who does not experience orgasms, so she consults a doctor, played by Harry Reems.  He discovers that the patient's clitoris is in the back of her throat so fellatio is the only way she get get an orgasm.  Throughout the film she returns to the doctor for "therapy". <P>

'''The Incident:''' "Deep Throat" was the target of more prosecutions than any film in the United States since "Birth of a Nation" in 1915.     "Deep Throat" was judged as obscene in the case Sanders v. Georgia in 1975.  A more famous case in 1976 took place in Memphis, Tennessee.  The film was not being shown in Memphis but it was chosen as the place for the trail because of its conservative attitudes and an enthusiastic local prosecutor.  Co-star Harry Reems became the first actor ever to be charged in a US court with obscenity.  Eleven other defendants and five corporations were also charged.  They were convicted after the judge had told the jury that the First Amendment did not apply. <P>

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