Lovelace eventually renounced “Deep Throat” and Hollywood. She divorced Traynor, married another man, raised a family and lived, in her words, as a “typical housewife.”

For a time, she publicly campaigned for the elimination of pornography.

“Linda Lovelace became a spokesman for the anti-pornography movement,” Porter noted. “She was adopted by the leading feminists, the most important of whom was Gloria Steinem.”