Annie Sprinkle: Post-Porn Modernist
- Book Review,
by Annie Sprinkle
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Porn-star-turned-performance-artist Annie Sprinkle presents an illustrated history of her 25-year career, documenting her transformation from ugly duckling to prostitute to porn queen to sexual healer, activist, and educator. Although she began as "an excruciatingly shy girl" selling popcorn at an adult theater showing Deep Throat, her playful and uninhibited nature was soon recognized. When the police closed the theater, she asked a spiritualist friend for a spell that might bring her a new job. "It was my first experience with witchcraft," Sprinkle recalls, "and I didn't really expect it to work. But did it ever! I hit the jackpot. Maybe it was just good luck, but a week later I was working as a prostitute." She was discovered by porn producers soon afterward and went on to make over 200 hardcore films before leaving the industry to develop her own public performances, the most famous of which was her "Public Cervix Announcement," in which she allowed audience members to view her interior using a speculum and a flashlight. Well-written, well-illustrated, and calmly outrageous, Post-Porn Modernist is a great introduction to an American original. --Regina Marler
The Village Voice
"Annie Sprinkle gives new meaning to the term 'revolutionary ardor.'"
SF Bay Guardian
"Sprinkle is a sort of groovy Aphrodite."
Village Voice
Annie Sprinkle...gives new meaning to the term revolutionary ardor.
Book Description
Fans catch Annie Sprinkle's performance pieces, rent her porn videos, attend workshops, follow her career in magazines, trade playing cards and erotic postcards Out Magazine called Annie Sprinkle a cottage industry. Funny, unorthdox, and shockingly erotic, Annie Sprinkle: Post Porn Modernist is Annie's scrapbook of her life as a pleasure activist, tracing her evolution from Ellen Steinberg to Annie Sprinkle, High Priestess of Porn. The most nakedly graphic memoir you will ever read, Post Porn Modernist is packed with personal mementos, before-and-after photos, diary entries and art projects. Here are Annie's newest writings and never-before-seen photographs along with classics: Public Cervix Announcement, Tit Art, 101 Uses for Sex, Cut-Out Finger Puppets, The Bosom Ballet, Pornstatistics, and the Transformation of Les Nichols, Annie's transsexual lover. Originally published by Art Unlimited, Amsterdam, 1991, Annie Sprinkle: Post Porn Modernist is a cult classic.
From the Publisher
Part autobiography, part cultural history, part sex manual, ANNIE SPRINKLE'S POST-PORN MODERNIST is an illustrated tour through one woman's tumultuous quarter century on the frontlines of sexual discovery and revelation. From her humble beginnings as Ellen Steinberg (a shy girl frightened by boys) to her ultimate transformation into spiritual teacher and sexual healer, Annie Sprinkle reveals all in this extraordinary scrapbook of her amazing life. PROSTITUTE Annie describes her many years of sexual service to the community and answers the question, What does it take to be a whore? QUEEN OF KINK Annie shares her fearless explorations of the farthest edges of fetish subculture. PORN STAR With 200 films under her belt, Annie shares the ins and outs of the sex biz. PERFORMANCE ARTIST Annie's Public Cervix Announcement and Masturbatorium Ritual shocked the art world. PHOTOGRAPHER Annie's erotic photos transform the way women look at themselves--and inspired the term sex-positive feminist. SEX GURU The "Shirley MacLaine of Porn" shares the spiritual lessons of her journeys into orgasmic states. Meet Annie's many friends, including: * Veronica Vera, Headmistress of the School for Boys Who Want to be Girls * Porn stars Mark 10 1/2 inches Stevens, John Holmes and Ron Jeremy. * Modern Primitive Fakir Musafar * Les Nichols, Female-to-Male Transsexual * Cutting-edge artists Linda Montano and Spider Webb * Mistress Antoinette, founder of the Fetish Fashion Ball This completely revised, updated and expanded book features over 400 photographs, an extensive filmography (with hilarious blow-by-blow synopses), Annie's kiss-and-tell-all Sprinkle Salon guest book, and plenty of interactive games. Your preconceptions will be defied, your misconceptions corrected and your curiosity sated. You don't have to like porn to love this book!
About the Author
Annie Sprinkle is a sex artist. High priestess of prostitution, performance artist, sex educator, workshop leader, photographer, author and filmmaker, Annie has a long career as an exuberant promoter of sexual expression. Post-Porn Modernist, her one-woman showed, has been enjoyed by audiences in twelve countries. She has appeared in more than one hundred and fifty X-rated feature films. She has written, directed, and starred in Rites of Passion, a tantric erotic adult fairy tale, The Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop: Or How To Be a Sex Goddess in 101 Easy Steps, and Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn. She has appeared on HBO's Real Sex and hosted her own cable TV show, The Sprinkle Salon. Photographs of Annie have appeared in virtually every sex magazine available, including Hustler, Penthouse, Playboy, Stag, High Society, and Club. She has posed for painter Alice Neel and photographer Joel-Peter Witkin. Annie runs a fully equipped photography studio where she produces photo sets for national and international magazines. Her work has been published in American Photographer, Newsweek, Spin, Camera Austria, and dozens of Penthouse publications. Her fine art photography has been shown in galleries internationally, and is represented by TORCH Gallery in Amsterdam, Holland. Twenty five of her photographs have been printed onto postcards by Art Unlimited. Readers discovered Annie in Angry Women, edited by Andrea Juno and V. Vale (Re/Search Publications). Annie Sprinkle's Post-Modern Pin-Ups: Pleasure Activist Playing Cards and XXXOOO: Love and Kisses from Annie Sprinkle, a two-volume set of mail-art postcards, introduced Annie's art to mainstream audiences through trade bookstores. Her autobiographical scrapbook, Annie Sprinkle Post Post Porn Modernist, was first published in Amsterdam by TORCH Books, and then by Art Unlimited. The book quickly sold out. It is a cult classic. Annie has published over three hundred articles about sex in Penthouse, Hustler, Forum, Arts Magazine, Utne Reader, The Drama Review, On Our Backs, Chic, Adam, Oui, Monk Magazine, and many others. Her writings appear in Bi Any Other Name (Alyson Publications), Ritual Sex (Rhinoceros), First Person Sexual (Down There Press), Whores and Other Feminists (Rutledge), Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminists Social Ethics (Westview). Annie Sprinkle has lectured at many museums, universities, and holistic healing centers, including Brown University, Syracuse University, Santa Cruz University, Columbia University, New York University, Cooper Union, Dartmouth University, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Wise Woman Center (Woodstock), Gabriel's Siren Center (Provincetown), Omega, The Open Center (New York), and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Visual Arts.
Excerpted from Annie Sprinkle : Post-Porn Modernist by Annie Sprinkle. Copyright © 1998. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
40 Reasons Why Whores Are My Heroes 1. Whores have the ability to share their most private, sensitive body parts with total strangers. 2. Whores make lonely people less lonely. 3. Whores challenge sexual mores. 4. Whores are playful. 5. Whores are tough. 6. Whores have careers based on giving pleasure. 7. Whores are creative. 8. Whores are adventurous and dare to live dangerously. 9. Whores teach people how to be better lovers. 10. Whores are multicultured and multigendered. 11. Whores give excellent advice and help people with their personal problems. 12. Whores have fun. 13. Whores wear exciting clothes. 14. Whores have patience and tolerance for people whom others could never manage to put up with. 15. Whores have access to places other people don't. 16. Whores are independent. 17. Whores teach people how to have safer sex. 18. Whores are a tradition. 19. Whores are hip. 20. Whores have good senses of humor. 21. Whores relieve millions of people of unwanted stress and tension. 22. Whores heal. 23. Whores endure in the face of fierce prejudice. 24. Whores make good money. 25. Whores always have a job. 26. Whores are sexy. 27. Whores have special talents other people just don't have. Not everyone has what it takes to be a whore. 28. Whores are interesting people with lots of exciting life stories. 29. Whores get laid a lot. 30. Whores help people explore their sexual desires. 31. Whores explore their own sexual desires. 32. Whores are not afraid of sex. 33. Whores hustle. 34. Whores sparkle. 35. Whores are entertaining. 36. Whores have the guts to wear very big wigs. 37. Whores are not ashamed to be naked. 38. Whores help the handicapped. 39. Whores make their own hours. 40. Whores are rebelling against the absurd, patriarchal, sex-negative laws against their profession and are fighting for the legal right to receive financial compensation for their valuable work. COPYRIGHT 1998 by ANNIE SPRINKLE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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