Joel Tyler, the judge who ruled that "Deep Throat" was obscene and unintentionally catapulted 
the film and its star Linda Lovelance to the status of cultural icons, has died at 90, The New York Times reports.
In a colorfully-written opinion against the film which he ruled was obscene, the New York judge wrote in 1973:
“Oh, yes! There is a gossamer of a story line — the heroine’s all-engrossing search for sexual gratification, and when all sexual endeavors fail to gratify, her unique problem is successfully diagnosed to exist in her throat,” he wrote referring to the plot point that Lovelace's clitoris was in her throat.