Annie Sprinkle

American lesbian feminist performance artist, ex-prostitute, ex-porn Star, actor, Tantra practitioner, photographer, writer, lecturer and pagan love-sex Goddess-guru. Annie Sprinkle is mostly known as the porn star-prostitute who became a performance artist and sex guru. She spent many years exploring a multitude of sexual possibilities in Manhattan's kinky sex clubs and through her roles in hundreds of hard-core XXX films, where she achieved legendary status and earned such titles as "the queen of Kink," "the Mother Teresa of Sex," "the Shirley MacLaine of Smut " and "the Renaissance Woman of Porn. "

As an exhibitionist who liked to do it all, she posed for every major, minor sex and fetish magazine there is, and she was a "Photo Funny Girl "for National Lampoon for two years. All along Annie has been a very creative individual, but recently she has emerged as what she describes as a "post-porn modernist, " creating her own eclectic brand of feminist, sexually explicit media. Her latest one-woman show is part autobiography, part parody of the porn industry, part sex education, and part sex-magic ecstasy ritual. It is controversial, powerful, and popular.

After twenty-two years of devoting her life to learning and experiencing all she could about sex and doing sex work, Annie has become a unique kind of expert. She has authored three hundred articles on the topic, as well as an autobiographical book entitled "Annie Sprinkle: Post-Porn Modernist." She produced and directed several videos, including the lesbian classic "The Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop, or How To Be a Sex Goddess in 101 Easy Steps."

She has been invited to teach and lecture at many museums, universities, and holistic: healing centers, including such prestigious institutions as Columbia University, the Museum of Modern Art, the Wise Woman 's Center New York University, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.