Pornography While recovering at the home of her parents, Boreman became involved with
Chuck Traynor. According to Boreman, Traynor was charming and attentive at first, then became violent and abusive. She said he forced her to move to New York, where he became her manager,
pimp, and husband. Boreman was soon performing as Linda Lovelace in
hardcore "
loops", short 8 mm silent films made for
peep shows. Boreman starred in a 1969
bestiality film titled
Dogarama (also known as
Dog 1,
Dog Fucker and
Dog-a-Rama). She later denied having appeared in the film until several of the original loops proved otherwise. In 2013, Larry Revene, the cameraman who actually shot the film, spoke about it for the first time, during which he asserted that Boreman was a willing participant and that no coercion took place. In 1971, Boreman also starred in the
golden shower film titled
Piss Orgy. In 1972, Boreman starred in
Deep Throat, in which she performed
deep-throating. The film achieved surprising and unprecedented popularity among mainstream audiences and even a review in the
New York Times. It played several times daily for over ten years at theaters in the
Pussycat Theater chain, where Boreman did promotions, including leaving her hand and footprints in the concrete sidewalk outside the Hollywood Pussycat. The movie later became one of the first, and highest-grossing, X-rated videotape releases. While
Deep Throat grossed over $600 million, Boreman was paid only $1,250, which was later confiscated by her husband Traynor. On December 20, 1973, she was inducted into the Golden Age of Porn Walk of Fame.
Media career after Deep Throat In December 1973, Boreman made her theater debut in
Pajama Tops at the Locust Theatre in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. The production suffered disappointing box office performance, which led it to close early, and Boreman's performance was panned. In 1974, Boreman starred in the
R-rated sequel,
Deep Throat II, which was not as well received as the original had been; one critic, writing in
Variety, described it as "the shoddiest of
exploitation film traditions, a depressing fast buck attempt to milk a naïve public." During the mid-1970s, she took to smoking large quantities of
marijuana combined with painkillers, and after her second marriage and the birth of her two children, she left the pornographic film business. In January 1977, she briefly returned to theater acting in a
Las Vegas production of ''My Daughter's Rated X'', but the show closed early and her acting performance was criticized. ==Charges against Chuck Traynor==