Annie Sprinkle
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Annie Sprinkle in 2005.
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Ellen F. Steinberg July 23, 1954 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Spouse(s) | Beth Stephens (2002–present) |
| Website | anniesprinkle |
Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954) is an American sex educator, former prostitute,feminist stripper, pornographic actress, cable television host, porn magazine editor, writer sex film producer, and sex-positive feminist. She received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1986 and, in 1992, she earned a doctorate in human sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, an institute that is accredited in the state of California. Currently, Sprinkle works as a performance artist and sex educator. Sprinkle, who describes herself as ecosexual married her long-time partner, Beth Stephens, in Canada on January 14, 2007.
Annie Sprinkle was born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a Russian-Jewish mother and a Polish-Jewish father. She is known as the "prostitute and porn star turned sex educator and artist." 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 titled Post Porn Modernist,Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn,Hardcore from the Heart, and Exposed; Experiments in Love, Sex, Death and Art.
Her work and publications, spanning almost four decades, are studied in courses at numerous universities, in theater history, women's studies, and film studies courses. She also is a faculty member at the Oakland, California-based The New School of Erotic Touch.
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