According to Lovelace, she was soon working as a prostitute with Traynor as her pimp. The two eventually moved to New York, where Traynor realized that Lovelace’s girl-next-door appeal could make him a lot of money in the porn industry. And so Lovelace began making short, silent pornographic films called “loops” that would often play at peep shows.
While industry colleagues said that she loved her job, Lovelace later claimed that she was forced into sex work at gunpoint. But despite the alleged abuse and death threats, Lovelace felt that she had nowhere else to turn at that point. And so she agreed to marry Traynor in 1971.
Soon afterward, Lovelace and Traynor met an adult film director named Gerard Damiano at a swingers party. Damiano had directed some softcore porn features in the past, but he was so impressed by Lovelace that he vowed to tailor a script just for her. Within months, that script became Deep Throat — the very first full-length pornographic film.