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About 200 students protested the showing of "Deep Throat" outside the Quincy House dining hall yesterday night, charging that the film promotes the exploitation and degradation of women...
...protesters, beginning at about 7:15 p.m., marched in a circle in the Quincy courtyard repeating "Freedom of the press is not freedom to molest," "Boycott 'Deep Throat,'" and other chants...
...protest, organized by the ad hoc committee against "Deep Throat," delayed the start of the movie by a half-hour. Protesters handed out leaflets and tried to dissuade students from attending the movie...
...statement released by the committee after the arrest of two students for showing "Deep Throat" said the protesters do not advocate censorship. "What we ask is that our peers not promote this depiction of violence against women for profit. As fellow students, we have no power to enforce censorship nor do we seek it," the statement says...
Pornography also frequently involves violence against the actresses or models. Although some women enter the pornography industry voluntarily, many are forced or tricked into it. Linda Boreman Marciano, alias Linda Lovelace, the star of Deep Throat, has written an autobiography, Ordeal, in the hope of "purg(ing) forever the idea that she had become 'Linda Lovelace" voluntarily." (Ms., May 1980, p.73) She describes her entrapment into prostitution, repeated beatings and raping: "guns being put to her head, turning tricks while being watched through a peephole to make sure she couldn't escape, and having a garden hose jammed...