Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring Linda Lovelace, a shy girl manipulated by a controlling husband, was released in 1972 and divided audiences, who began to talk openly about sex, desire and female pleasure; but also about violence and abuse; and about pornography, until then an almost clandestine industry, as a revolutionary cultural phenomenon.

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• Hauteville Productions
• Anna Sigalevitch
• Annie Sprinkle
• Gerard Damiano Jr.
• Larry Revene
• Whitney Strub
• Nine Antico
• Paulita Pappel
• Didier Philippe-Gérard