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By Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne, Peter Pavia

We all know the grownup movie is a multimillion pound company. What most folks don't be aware of is how the porn received began - with a USD22,000 Mafia funding in a movie known as Deep Throat - or the way it mushroomed over the subsequent quarter-century regardless of efforts through politicians, the FBI, and others to deliver it down. the opposite Hollywood tells that tale, via 1000's of interviews by means of the folks who lived via it. within the riveting oral-history layout that made his first ebook, Please Kill Me, some of the most memorable money owed of Nineteen Seventies underground tradition, Legs McNeil now pulls again the dirty satin sheets on probably the most incredible good fortune tales within the heritage of industrial. Careening backward and forward among teams - the actresses, administrators, and others who made the flicks and the shady underworld figures who financed them - the opposite Hollywood deals rankings of never-before-told stories.

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A guy that worked in a bank down in Miami told me about it. He said, “Remember that guy, Chuck Traynor? He got two girls, and they put on an act. ” CHUCK TRAYNOR: See, in Miami, a $100 trick isn’t that easy. Unless you’re tied to a hotel or something, you had $20 tricks, maybe, or $25 tricks, but Linda was limited because she wasn’t really glamorous. She didn’t have any clothes. She couldn’t go to the beach and talk with anybody because, you know, she is not really a talker. In Miami, if a guy’s going to pay $100 or $150, he wants a chick he can take out to a club and carry on a conversation with.

My erection dropped like an express elevator. ” I asked Jason. “Nope. ” “Because Tina and I have done too many together. Caprice thinks a new face and bod are needed. ” I was confused and embarrassed. All the blood in my system rushed to my face. “But . . but,” I stammered, “they told me I’d have to have . . relations . . with . ” 40 The Other Hollywood Jason laughed. “Relax, man. You’re trying to ask me if it’s okay to fuck my wife. ” TINA RUSSELL: Jason had to convince Harry that it was all right for him to fuck me.

Even if a woman stank to high heaven, Jamie would eat her right up. JAMIE GILLIS: Those guys who had seniority, Harry, Sean, and Fred—who had been around a little while—got the prettier girls. Sean, of course, would get the top one. Then Harry got some, too. It took a while before you could lay claim to the really hot ones. But one time there was one girl, Lucy, who was so, so cute, that I just kept fucking her. I pretended that I couldn’t come. So I just kept fucking her and fucking her—for I don’t know how long.

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