Ex-porn actress says the
industry victimizes many

By Alicia Beard
The Metropolitan

Linda Marchiano starred in an adult movie, playing a woman who could orgasm only from performing fellatio.
But she was strung out on drugs, beaten and forced at gunpoint to play the part and appear as if she liked it.

Marchiano a.k.a. Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat, talked to students March 2 as part of the Towering
Issues of Today series about her life experiences and the degradation she suffered from her involvement in the pornography industry.

Marchiano, 49, said she doesnât advocate censorship, but she thinks people should be aware that pornography often goes hand in hand with violence.

She told the crowded audience in the Tivoli that her ex-boyfriend, Charles Trayner, held her prisoner for two and a half years and didnât let her out of his sight. Trayner acted as Marchianoâs ãagent,ä marketing her as a prostitute, nude model and pornography actress, she said. Marchiano said Trayner beat her and mentally abused her while he forced her to use her body as a commodity.

ãHe thought it was cool to stick a garden hose inside a womenâs rectum and turn the hose on,ä Marchiano said of her life with Trayner. ãThat was one of my punishments for not being the super-sex freak he wanted me to be.ä

Marchiano said her involvement with Trayner led to the 1972 filming of Deep Throat.

Marchiano said she met Trayner in New York when she was 21 and naïve, and he first appeared to be a
ãgentlemen.ä It wasnât long before they moved in together, but thatâs when his gentle facade crumbled.

Marchiano said the abuse that ensued was like a horrible nightmare that she never woke up from.

ãA womanâs body in (Traynerâs) opinion was made to please a man and to be used by a man so a man would never have to work again,ä Marchiano said.

After three unsuccessful attempts, Marchiano said she finally was able to find someone who helped her escape and protected her from Trayner until she could get herself together again.

She wrote an autobiography, titled Ordeal, in 1980 to share the pain and bruises of pornography. Marchiano said victims of pornography can be anyone of any age. She said child porn is the biggest selling type of pornographic video.

ãWe actually produce an instrument here in the United States ... that you put inside of an infant to make a baby large enough to consume a man,ä she said. ãThat baby ruptures and dies.ä