With all due respect, it's very difficult to tell if this is a review of a "The Deep Throat Sex Scandal" or the author's op-ed on his distaste for adult entertainment/sex industry topics.
And frankly, it is mind-boggling that a writer that works for a subsidiary of Village Voice Media should be criticizing a challenging perspective on free speech, when the Village Voice has been a longtime advocate for 1st Amendment rights. Remember Backpage(.)com??? Voice Media has had to defend the right to post classified ads that some say promoting sex trafficking, but it's okay to further vilify the legal adult entertainment industry with snarky news stories like this?
Whether this author likes it or not, pornography has existed since the dawn of civilization in some form or another. There is no doubt that the play's author, David Bertolino, is pro-free speech AND pornography; thank God that he has free speech protection to be able to write plays on topics that interest him. There are still plenty of place on earth were a story like this could not be told.
"The Deep Throat Sex Scandal" is a snapshot of an important event, in the history of a significant social phenomena which is modern pornography. Whether you like it or not, it's a time and part of history that deserves to be documented. For those of us that actually remember the 70s and how different the political climate was then; the social mores; the innocence of that time... people seemed a lot less judgmental than they are now. Back then, the Village Voice was a champion of 1st Amendment issues.
If the story's author didn't like the play, then fair enough. But shame on this writer for confusing his own opinions on pornography with what should have been opinions on the play itself.
