Annie Sprinkle

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Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) is a former prostitute, stripper, pornographic actress, cable television host, porn magazine editor, writer and sex film producer. She received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1986. Currently, Sprinkle works as a performance artist and sex educator. Sprinkle, who is bisexual, [cite book
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url=http://www.anniesprinkle.org/html/about/voices.html ] married her long-time partner, Beth Stephens, in Canada on January 14, 2007. [ [http://www.torontolife.com/features/double-exposure/ Toronto Life: Double Exposure ] ]

Career

Sprinkle is known as the "prostitute and porn star turned sex educator and artist". [Blurb on the cover to her DVD, "Fire in the Valley - Female Genital Massage".] Her best known theater and performance art piece is her "Public Cervix Announcement", in which she invites the audience to "celebrate the female body" by viewing her cervix with a speculum and flashlight. She also performed "The Legend of the Ancient Sacred Prostitute", in which she did a "sex magic" masturbation ritual on stage. She has toured one-woman shows internationally for 17 years, some of which were are titled "Post Porn Modernist", "Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn", "Hardcore from the Heart", and, currently, "Exposed; Experiments in Love, Sex, Death and Art". [Bond, Lawrence & Ellen Evert Hopman (1996) "People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak Out" (reissued as "Being a Pagan: Druids, Wiccans & Witches Today" in 2002 Destiny Books ISBN 0-89281-904-9) Interview.]

The first porn star known to have earned a Ph.D., Sprinkle received her Ph.D. in Human Sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. Her work, spanning more than three decades, is studied at many universities, in theater history, women's studies, and film studies courses. She also is a faculty member at The New School of Erotic Touch. [Vitzthum, V. [http://www.salon.com/health/col/vitz/2000/02/08/sprinkle/ Annie Sprinkle swims forward] . Salon.com, 2000.]

Sprinkle's first porn movie was "Teenage Covergirl", released in 1975. Perhaps her best known featured role was in "Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle" (co-directed by Sprinkle and sexploitation veteran Joseph W. Sarno) which was the #2 grossing porn film of 1981.

In 1991, Sprinkle created the "Sluts and Goddesses" workshop, which became the basis for her 1992 production "The Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop – Or How To Be A Sex Goddess in 101 Easy Steps", which was co-produced and co-directed with videographer Maria Beatty and featured music by composer Pauline Oliveros.

She later starred in Nick Zedd's experimental films "War Is Menstrual Envy" (1992), "Ecstasy In Entropy" (1999), and "Electra Elf: The Beginning" (2005).

She has appeared in over 200 films; they have included hard and softcore pornography, B movies, loops, numerous documentaries, and four HBO "Real Sex" programs. She also produced, directed, and starred in several of her own films, such as "Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn". Her work in these films has earned her a spot on the Adult Star Path of Fame in Edison, New Jersey.

Sprinkle's work has always been about sexuality, with a political, spiritual, and artistic bent. In December 2005, she committed to doing seven years of art projects about love with her wife and art collaborator, Beth Stephens. They call this their "Love Art Laboratory". Their projects are all documented on their web site, www.loveartlab.org. Part of their project is to do an experimental art wedding each year, and each year has a different theme and color. The seven-year theme was adapted to their project by invitation of artist Linda M. Montano. [Benn, D. [http://www.pornonewsnetwork.com/news.php?id=863 Annie Sprinkle on the Adult Star Path of Fame: 43 Stars Laid in New Jersey] . [http://www.pornonewsnetwork Porno News Network] , 2006.]

Bibliography

*Sprinkle, A. "Post-porn modernist: my 25 years as a multimedia whore". Cleis Press, 1998. ISBN 1-57344-039-6
*Sprinkle, A. "Dr. Sprinkle's Spectacular Sex--Make Over Your Love Life with One of the Worlds Greatest Sex Experts. Tarcher/PEnguin 2005. ISBN 1-58542-412-9
*Sprinkle, A. "Hardcore from the Heart--The Pleasures, Profits and Politics of Sex in Performance. Continuum International Publishing Group 2001 ISBN 0-8264-4893-3

ee also

*Sex-positive feminism
*International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

References

External links

* [http://www.anniesprinkle.org/ Annie Sprinkle's official website]
* [http://www.loveartlab.org/ Annie's Love Art Laboratory website]
* [http://www.eroticmassage.com Annie teaches vulva massage and masturbation at The New School of Erotic Touch]
* [http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featmorris_168.shtml Documenting the Orgasm: An Interview With Post-porn Modernist and Feminist Art Teacher, Annie Sprinkle] by Gary Morris, LiP Magazine: 2002.
* [http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v12n1/12109spr.html How Psychedelics Informed My Sex Life and Sex Work]