“Dogarama” begins with a fairly typical porno scenario, with Lovelace and reigning X-rated stud Eric Edwards enjoying each other’s company. Or, at least here, he is having more fun than she is. When Edwards is satisfied, he abruptly dresses and departs, leaving poor Lovelace in a most unsatisfactory mood.
Ah, but sexual salvation awaits her via the trust pet dog. This happy bow-bow – it is not certain whether it is a German shepherd or an Alsatian – appears to take his job as man’s best friend very, very seriously. For the remainder of the film, the viewer is treated to glimpses of Lovelace showing more than a maternal interest in the dog, while the four-legged star reciprocates with several aggressive displays of (what else?) doggie-style sex.
There is no nice way to put this: “Dogarama” is a thoroughly disgusting experience. The film provides extreme close-ups of Lovelace pleasuring the pooch in a variety of ways, and the poor animal plays alpha dog to his willing human partner. Anyone with a weak stomach should stay as far from “Dogarama” as possible.
But, at the same time, this is also a weirdly confusing endeavor – and in its excessive awfulness, it raises a host of questions that will puzzle the sensitive viewer. For instance, did anyone making this film genuinely believe that people would find this stuff erotic, or even amusing? Was some sort of sick statement being made with “Dogarama” that equated women with pet dogs? Did notion of animal abuse ever permeate the planning behind the film shoot? And, quite frankly, how did people react when they ambled into X-rated venues in 1971 and witnessed this unlikely spectacle?
The story behind the film – and, for that matter, Lovelace’s relatively brief porno career – has been the subject of considerable debate. Lovelace, as stated earlier, initially denied ever being in the film. When Screw Magazine publisher Al Goldstein obtained a print and published screen freezes, she accused him of faking the stills in order to cash in on her fame. But the curiosity about the flick never evaporated, and Lovelace would be unhappily reacquainted with the film during a visit to the Playboy Mansion, when Hugh Hefner admitted that he had a print in his private film collection.
Lovelace would eventually be forced to say that she participated in this film and in a second (but lesser known) loop that included another go-round of sex with a dog. However, in her 1980 autobiography “Ordeal,” she would insist that she was violently coerced by her then-husband, Chuck Traynor, to make love to a dog on camera. Lovelace accused Traynor of inflicting a “brutal beating” and threatening her with a gun prior to the shoot, and she sought to expunge the memory of the film by claiming its creation was the most painful moment of her life.
In the book Ordeal by Linda Lovelace, she says Hefner owned an expansive collection of 8mm loops. She also says Hefner wanted her to reenact the dog scene, of course with the encouragement of others. It didn’t work.
By then an experienced sex worker had advised Linda ways to discourage or “frighten” dogs from participating, if she found herself in that position again–being forced to participate.
How much would a Linda Lovelace dog Arama 8 mm film in a collectors box with a photograph be worth
A trip to jail?
What is this worth
This movie makes a cameo appearance in, of all things, Liv Ullmann’s memoirs. In the book CHANGING, Ullmann describes her first visit to Hollywood, after achieving international fame through her work with Ingmar Bergman. She is taken to a party at the Playboy Mansion, where Hugh Hefner shows a movie in which a woman has sex with a dog. Ullmann describes herself as deeply embarrassed, and not knowing where to look. She does not identify the woman or the title, but one must presume it to be the same movie.
And ,the childish,overrated, insufferable,grossly untalented “comic” Sarah Silverman,makes a political video of herself around election time, simulating this very thing,to show how “hip”,”edgy”,”brilliant”,”ironic”,”smarter than you conservative,Midwestern rubes are”etc,etc, that she still delusionally believes herself to be.And hardly any controversy,because she’s Left Wing, and the 99% Leftist media say nothing.
Actually, the concept of b********y in porn in the 1970s was not that far-fetched, and there was a big audience for it. Imported loops from Europe featured eels, pigs, cows, and of course dogs, and if there wasn’t a market for it, it wouldn’t have continued being sold here. If you’re so inclined, Google “Bodil Jensen” and read more about the adult film world’s most infamous animal lover, who even starred in a film with that title in 1971. Jack Stevenson wrote the definitive article on her.
The 70s porno world isn’t all “Boogie Nights” fun and games. Violent S&M and even underage participants were not frowned upon until the mid-1970s. You could go into any adult store in the big bad city up until that point and find a dedicated section to any kink you wished, including pregnant women, milk, menstruation, and enemas. True story!