Posts tagged with Gerard Damiano

Deeper than Deep, Your Cooler

Now fans of the late Gerard Damiano’s porn classic Deep Throat can satisfy their oral fixations in another way: by drinking a mixture of juices, extracts, and vitamins out of a big can bearing the image of Linda Lovelace.

And for the real fans, there’s even better news on the horizon.

The company that distributes the porn-themed libation is giving away a cooler that comes in three different designs, all bearing Linda’s iconic image.

Now you can have something to put next to your Deep Throat pinball machine to keep your fuel cool during those marathon sessions.

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Orally Obsessed Obscure Oration of Overt Onanism Opens Other Orifices

In 1994, forty years after its publication, the world learned the identity of the woman who wrote the famed erotic novel of dominance and submission The Story of O, the most masturbated-to work of literature ever to win the Prix des Deux Magots.

Anne Desclos, the novel’s author, was a respected journalist and literary figure linked to writers like T.S. Eliot and Evelyn Waugh. She was a bisexual in life, and wrote the novel when her boyfriend, Jean Paulhan, suggested to her that women couldn’t write pornography.

Two years later, using the nom-de-porn Jeanne de Berg, another French woman, Catherine Robbe-Grillet (wife of Alain Robbe-Grillet, father of the Nouveau Roman), wrote the similarly-themed The Image, which inspired Radley Metzger’s The Punishment of Anne.

In 1975, Emmanuelle director Just Jaeckin made a film version with Corrine Clery as O, Li Sellgren as her lesbian lover Jacqueline, Udo Kier as her first master Rene, and (after Christopher Lee turned down the role), Anthony Steel as Sir Steven, the man to whom Rene gives her as a slave.

Just as his Emmanuelle did one year ago, Just Jaeckin’s The Story of O will get a special edition release on Blu-ray November 11.

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Mr Skin Remembers Director of Deep Throat

Gerard Damiano, the man behind Golden Age classics Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones and the mainstreaming of hardcore in the early 1970s dubbed “porn chic,” passed away this past Saturday from complications caused by a stroke.

Over his time in the industry, Damiano worked with stars like Linda Lovelace, Gloria Leonard, Harry Reems, Jamie Gillis, Peter North, George Payne, Sharon Mitchell, Annie Sprinkle, and Sharon Kane.

The director had retired in 1994 after making a total of 47 movies, including the BDSM-themed The Story of Joanna, Let My Puppets Come, and Splendor in the Ass with early anal queen Rachel Ryan.

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After beginning her career on Broadway, Georgina Spelvin became an overnight sensation in the world of porn chic when she starred in the X-rated classic The Devil in Miss Jones in 1973. Over the course of making 70 adult movies, Ms. Spelvin worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, including Harry Reems and Gerard Damiano. Georgina retired after a storied career, and now she’s written a book about her experiences, The Devil Made Me Do It. She recently took some time out to discuss porn with our own Maximilian Mueller.