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"So I was stunned when I first saw the pictures of Monica Lewinsky on every TV program -- the big wide smile, the nicely relaxed lips with all those teeth -- and I thought, Oh my God, here we go again! We heard years ago that Clinton seemed to believe that he was never unfaithful to his wife as long as he just having oral sex. I think that's what he wanted from Paula Jones and that's what was going on here. In his own mind, he really believes, "I'm not doing anything wrong. All we were doing was having a little fun." He was being sexually serviced during his busy day."

In February of 1998, Pistol offered Monica Lewinsky and President Clinton $2.5 million each to perform sex in an Arrow remake of Deep Throat. "This is a dead serious offer," said Pistol. "The checks are on my desk already made out to President Clinton and to Monica. All they have to do is give me a call. They are each being offered the same amount because we pride ourselves as being equal opportunity pornogrpahers. We don't discriminate against Presidents or their lovers… It's clear that Monica possesses all the natural talents needed to be the new Linda Lovelace - if she can keep the President of the United States happy for this long with oral sex alone, obviously she knows exactly what she is doing. And with the President's reputation for being a ladies' man, I don't think he'll have any problem performing live in front of the camera with Monica. With all the talk of impeachment and resignation going on around the country it's possible that President Clinton will soon be unemployed and in search of a job. We have a job here for him, one that pays well, that he will enjoy, and that based on his reputation, he will be very good at."

Arrow's offer tops the Penthouse bid to have Lewinsky bare all for $2 million. "Just having Monica take her clothes off by herself would be ripping off the public. The President didn't keep her around to see her naked, he kept her around because she knew how to please him orally. That's what the public wants to see, and that's the offer we are making to Monica and Bill - to tell their story in words, pictures and action," says Pistol. "The President is obviously worried about his place in history, and we can't think of him doing anything more historic than being the first President of the United States to star in a porn movie. No will ever forget his name then."

Gerard Damiano's movie Deep Throat made popular oral sex.

In 1972, Al Goldstein, editor of Screw magazine, called Deep Throat "the best porno ever made.

"Up and down, up and down, to the very depths of cosmic truth I saw that two-inches-short-of-a-foot-long cock engulfed like some soft vacuum cleaner taking vengeance on man for eons of past suckfulls. Then the climactic moment I was poised and ready for appeared! Hot white cum shot out and Our Lady of the Lips lapped it up. I was never so moved by any theatrical performance since stuttering through my own Bar Mitzvah. "Stupendous" was all I could shout as I stood up and spent my applause on the glory that mine eyes had just seen."

Reviewed by major New York film critics, Deep Throat eventually received unprecedented recognition for a porno movie, attracting "a whole new audience of seemingly regular folks who were willing to pay $5 each to see oral sex performed on a 40 foot screen. For acts once considered unspeakable, Linda Lovelace became a national celebrity - deemed suitable for the talk show circuit and slavered after by some Hollywood deal makers." (LA Times)

Director Gerard Damiano admits Throat was a joke. As a movie, it's above average. Why then all the hype from mainstream reviewers? Porn historian Jim Holliday says the critics cheered for explicit sex far superior to the loops they may have seen on the side. "They went ga-ga over routine filmmaking and opened the door for public acceptability."

Bill Rotsler: "One of the things I liked best about the film was Linda's obvious delight in what she was doing. It was infectious and made the entire film more palatable.

"Right now the language of porno cinema is baby talk - but inevitably some of it will become poetry."

Deep Throat arrived after the sexual revolution peaked and fewer real girls were easy. But men frustrated by reality could now turn to X-Rated movies and find flesh for fantasy - vivid images on a silver screen of beautiful women sucking and f---ing.

Sucking was particularly a treat as fewer nice girls gave head in the world before Deep Throat.

"Most people who watch porn fear and mistrust women," Jim Holliday told Dr. Robert Stoller. "By sheer lack of personality they've become subjugated to the women in their lives. If I was going to write a book, a cute title would be "What Porn is all about: Blowjobs and Losers." The blow job is the one thing the average American guy wants from his woman, but she won't give it to him. So he seeks release in a porno.

"At the extremes are people who fear and hate women, who will never be able to relate to women in real life. But they are not the threat to go out and do the damage. The Pussycat theaters have a fantastic slogan that I'm surprised the anti-porn forces haven't capitalized on. It's like, "For those who never knew and for those who will never forget." Does that not smack of losers and old guys?" (Porn)

While Deep Throat did not originate the "money shot" - sperm ejaculated all over a woman, particularly her face - it gave millions their first sight of it - again and again.

The initial purpose for the cum shot was to prove that the sex on film was real.

Pornographer Bill Margold says that the money shot represents vicarious male revenge on women. "Every man has wanted someone he couldn't have. So he harbors revenge. When we come on a woman's face or brutalize her sexually, we're getting even for the man's lost dreams."

Hustler Erotic Video Guide features a regular "Semen Salon" column, subtitled "X-rated skin care." It describes the best facials in recent sexvids. Here's a taste from the February, 1994 edition. "...North provides two of the titanic blasts, scuzzing up Isis Nile is a solid splooge that rains down all over her face and gums up her eye. Shooting from inches away, North pops a lovely cascade of cum.

"He also works up a supreme soaker on the jizz-loving Lana Sands. Sands is a voracious sperm slattern of the highest order, and she revels in another ball bath that she gets from Terry Thomas.... T.T. Boy finishes up his furious f--- with Diamond by grabbing his cock and running over to deposit the gooey goods on her face, leaving a solid stream of spunk running down one side of her cheek."

"One of the enduring fantasies is that women have orgasms - or close to it - sucking cock and that they want you to come in their mouths and if you come elsewhere they want to get down and lick up every drop," writes Adam Film World.

"It's a nice fantasy, and while not a truism, women sometimes do like to do these things, not so much for themselves as for you. We like to feel that our precious bodily fluids, the stuff we go through such hell and trouble and stress and anxiety and great effort to expel from our bodies is also precious and desirable and even tasty to others, specifically women.

"Having an orgasm is one of the most intimate, personal and dramatic things we ever do. While most orgasms are self-induced, there is a lot of emotion that goes into an orgasm. In looking at porn films you see men going through what seems to be intense pain, as if they were giving birth to an anvil or shoving a corncob through their penis.

"Some men are gaspers, some are angry, some seem about to expire and pass out. Men have died from the exertion, and even the strongest man can be left semi-helpless, weak and listless. When men are having sex - and this is truer as one progresses toward that moment of orgasm - the surrounding world gets turned off. You narrow in your focus until there is nothing else but you and your genitals and your partner.

"Women can fake orgasms at any time, limited only by their acting ability and inventiveness.

"Erections are fragile things. While they seem strong and hardy they can be wilted with a suspicious thought, a door opening, a telephone, a strange noise, misinterpreting a partner's look or word, or any of a thousand otherwise innocuous events. There does come a time when nothing can cause an erection to disappear and this is quickly followed by something as inevitable as dawn, orgasm. You get to a point where it... is... going... to... happen... no... matter...what.... The... house... is... on... fire? ... f---... it... Keep... moving... I'm ... coming... I'm... coming....

"I get a kick out of the way men announce their orgasms as if this was an event unique in the history of the world. (Of course it is... you never had, no one ever had, that particular orgasm before!) And too, you want to share the moment and the most loving women want to know, to share that experience instead of finding out after the fact.

"One of the educational aspects of watching sex films is seeing how other people do it. I know someone who used to holler when he came and until he started watching porn films he thought he was the only one and was shy and embarrassed about it. Now, when he comes, the neighbors definitely know." (AFW vol. 26, number 8, p. 30-34)

On the premier internet newsgroup devoted to porn, rec.arts.movies.erotica, Hamidt suggests the following five laws of facials.

"1. The prettier the girl, the greater the volume of spunk that should be deposited on her face. If the girl is blonde and blue-eyed and gets banged by several blacks, this quantity of sperm should be tripled. If the girl is Nici Sterling, her face should be rendered unrecognizable...

"2. A girl should stare straight at the camera and smile, preferably giggle, as she receives her face bath. Cum hogs never flinch from flying jizz and keep their eyes open...

"3. For a satisfying facial, several men should ejaculate one after another, and 95% of all spunk must land on the girl's face. If necessary, the girl's head should be held firmly by the hair so she cannot dodge the flying goo.

"4. For a great facial, most of the thicker spurts should splat between the grinning slut's eyes, the rest landing up her nose, on her forehead, on both cheeks and on her chin and mouth. The girl should blow bubbles with the jizz and lick her lips. There must be a lingering close-up to end the scene.

"5. For a monster facial, all of the above laws must apply, and the girl's eyes and nose must be clogged and oozing with semen. Her mouth should be so full of spunk that she gags. Ideally, just as she has dealt with the first torrent of spunk, she should receive countless more well-aimed jets of cum, more voluminous and forceful than before. As a finale, the men must use their cocks to smear the goo all over the girl's face."

Leonard Borrero suggests that the girl beg for the facial and that the guy cum from her blowjob, not from his own hand. "Drinking cum out of a glass adds a nice touch."

Fan Patrick Collins says the best blowjobs are characterized by:

"A. Cock adoration bordering on worship.

"B. Asking-begging-pleading for cum.

"C. Asking for him to cum on her face.

"D. Lots of spit and drool and slurping.

"E. Acknowledging that she knows he loves it.

"F. Ball licking and sucking.

"G. The blowjob lasts a long time.

"H. More than just sucking: teeth-raking, slapping dick on face, rubbing face against dick and smiling." (RAME)

"To deny sex is to deny life," says William Rotsler. "To reject art is to impoverish yourself, rejecting pleasure and growth. To accept sex and art together is to add to oneself, to be positive instead of negative. Erotic cinema... reveals us to ourselves with increasing artistry."

The late psychiatrist Dr. Robert Stoller has a more sober perspective. "Humans are not a very loving species, especially when they makes love... Harm energizes erotics... The desire to harm, cruelty, anger, revenge, and humiliation is the grain of sand around which the pearl of erotic excitement exists."

As Deep Throat became a hit, Louis Peraino flew Chuck and Linda to New York for interviews with the media. Screw got the first one due to their early promotion of the film. The newspaper printed the first story on the flick - an enthusiastic review entitled "Gulp."

Question: "What's the largest cock you've ever sucked? Is it the guy in the film or has there been somebody so large that you couldn't get it in?

Linda: "No, that's never happened. Nobody has ever been too large or too wide or anything."

"Once your throat opens, your esophagus gets large, like a sword-swallower," said Chuck.

Question: "Do you breathe through your nose?"

Linda "You have to breathe through your mouth, so whoever's going in my throat has to work in and out. As they come out, I take a breath.

Question: "Do you come even though your clit isn't being worked on?"

Linda: "Yeah, I have an orgasm every time I get screwed in the throat."

Question: "Do you enjoy the taste of sperm?"

Linda: "I love it. It's caviar to me. I can't understand why other chicks get turned off by it."

When Goldstein asked more questions about blowjobs, Linda gave him a free sample.

"The way Linda practiced oral sex," writes AFW, "inhaling any-size erection down to the root, changed the way wives and girlfriends were expected to suck cock. Today, if a porn actress doesn't deepthroat, what good is she?"

"I'm an exhibitionist," said Linda in 1972. "I dig doing it. I want everybody to see it. And I make good money.

"I don't have any inhibitions about sex.... I just hope everybody who goes to see the film enjoys it and maybe learns something from it."

Al Goldstein complains that '90s porn features lousy cocksuckers. He writes in the #14 issue of Gauntlet magazine that Lovelace and Traynor "set a standard, both in the industry and in the bedroom. Since the "discovery" of deep throat in 1972, women can no longer get along with what I call "cheater's head," that cheap, lazy excuse for cocksucking where the hand does as much if not most of the work. To really make it in the bedroom these days, women must be able to suck cock like a pro - or at least as good as a faggot."

"Pre-Deep Throat porn," writes Pat Riley on RAME, "and specifically written porn from the Victorian era - such as The Pearl - hardly ever mentions oral sex... Incest, under-age, anals, B&D - all of these - but few lurid passages of "I slid my throbbing manhood down her spasming throat as she sucked the very essence of my soul into her esophagus..." Why?

"The alleged attraction of Deep Throat and similar movies is: 'Things the wife or girlfriend won't do.' But given the patriarchal control of females prior to the sixties, if oral sex was so much in demand by males why wouldn't the males simply make the females do what they wanted? In other words, oral sex would have been forced down women's throats whether they wanted it or not. Deep Throat would not have been unusual but the norm. In the sixties, women would have formed "Women Against Cocksucking" support groups to assert their new-found strength. But they didn't. In fact it's only in porn movies where this concept even raises its head, which leads to the conclusion that there's some other dynamic operating here. Could it be that heavy porn viewers have certain characteristics not typical of the population as a whole?

"The NRS (non-reproductive sex) proponent is going to preference that form of sex over reproductive activities. He's going to prefer a female who gives great BJ's, takes a good facial etc or force her to do it instead of taking every opportunity to try to impregnate her. He's going to miss that couple of days a month when she's fertile. The RS

guy however is going to make every shot count. Given equal number of opportunities who's going to get his genes into the next generation?

"And if the NRS/RS preference is genetically encoded (You are your genes!) that next generation is going to be more RS than NRS, hence more likely to prefer RS so the following generation will be more RS...and so on. Even if the preference is not genetically encoded as a specific trait (like eye color) then whatever tendencies that cause the NRS person to be NRS are those that are most likely to miss out on reproduction and therefore those less likely to reproduce themselves.

"Let me suggest what has really been happening. The males have been powerful until the sixties and the vast majority of them were of the RS variety. Like the gays, there was a small group of NRS males who were overshadowed by this majority and forced (via the females, religious constraints (no sodomy), etc) to follow the majority line.

"With the coming of the sexual revolution the RS majority were no longer able to enforce conformity and the NRS males came out of the closet (to use the gay terminology). Unfortunately lots of females were not thrilled to go along (the reason for the "Things the wife and girlfriend won't do") so many of these NRS activities have found a

home in the porn industry and in the masturbatory fantasies of the heavy porn consumer.

"This is the sort of thing that cries out for academic study but isn't likely to get funded."

Many, perhaps most porn girls do not enjoy receiving cum shots to the face. All-time cum dodger champion must be Annette Haven. Other leaders according to porn observers on RAME such as Vegas Vic and Wozzek, include: PJ Sparxx, Savannah, Lene Hefner, Lexus Locklear, Ruby, Jenteal, Victoria Paris, Madelyn Knight, Nikki Tyler, Raven, Tiffany Lords, Joanna Storm, Teri Weigel, Georgina Spelvin, Alicia Monet, Houston, Blondi B, Stephanie Rage, Sabrina Dawn, Nikki Randall, Brittany Andrews, Tracey Wynn, Heather Lere, Bianca Trump, Tonisha Mills, Summer Cummings, Julia Parton, Annie Sprinkle, Lauren Brice, Serenity, Danielle Rodgers, Jacqueline, Shauna Grant, Holly Body, Skye Blue and Nina Hartley.