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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 and sex film producer. She received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1986 and earned a doctorate in human sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco in 1992. This institute 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. ==Life and career== Sprinkle was born in Philadelphia 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 are titled ''Post Porn Modernist'',〔〔 ''Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn'',〔 ''Hardcore from the Heart'', and ''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.〕 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.〔Vitzthum, V. (Annie Sprinkle swims forward ). Salon.com, 2000.〕 Annie Sprinkle began working at the ticket booth at Tucson's Plaza Cinema at 18, when ''Deep Throat'' was playing.〔(Annie Sprinkle: The Early Years ), audio podcast interview, (The Rialto Report ), April 7, 2013〕 The film was busted, and when Sprinkle had to appear in court as a witness, she met and fell in love with ''Deep Throats director, Gerard Damiano, and became his mistress, following him to New York City where she lived for twenty years.〔 Annie's first porn movie was ''Teenage Deviate'', which was released in 1975. Perhaps her best known mainstream porn featured role was in ''Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle'' (co-directed by Sprinkle and sexploitation veteran Joseph W. Sarno) which was the No. 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. Sprinkle pioneered new genres of sexually explicit film and video such as edu-porn, gonzo, post porn, xxx docudrama, art porn, and feminist erotica. Sprinkle has also presented many sex workshops with fellow sex facilitator Barbara Carrellas, with whom she presented the stage production ''Metamorphosex''.〔 She 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 almost 200 films, including hard- and softcore pornography, B movies, loops, numerous documentaries, various TV shows including four HBO ''Real Sex'' programs. She has produced, directed, and starred in several of her own films, such as ''Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn'', "Annie Sprinkle's Amazing World of Orgasm, and "Linda/Les & Annie—The First Female to Male Transsexual Love Story". These films played in hundreds of film festivals, in museums and galleries. Her work in adult films has earned her a spot on the Adult Star Path of Fame in Edison, New Jersey, she's in the AVN Hall of Fame, the XRCO Hall of Fame. For three decades she has presented her work as a visiting artist at many major universities and colleges in the USA and Europe. Currently her lecture presentation is called "My Life and Work as a Feminist Porn Activist, Radical Sex Educator, and Ecosexual." She also has done dozens of "Free Sidewalk Sex Clinics," offering free sex education to the public in public space. 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''. Part of their project was to do an experimental art wedding each year, and each year had a different theme and color. The seven-year structure was adapted to their project by invitation of artist Linda M. Montano.〔Benn, D. (Annie Sprinkle on the Adult Star Path of Fame: 43 Stars Laid in New Jersey ). (Porno News Network ), 2006.〕 Sprinkle and Stephens have done fifteen art weddings, eleven with ecosexual themes. They married the Earth, Sky, Sea, Moon, Appalachian Mountains and the Sun in six different countries. Sprinkle and her partner Beth Stephens are pioneers of Ecosexuality, a kind of earth loving sexual identity, which states, “The Earth is our lover.” The Ecosex Manifesto proclaims that not everyone must identify solely as Ecosexual, but “…Ecosexuals can be GLBTQI, heterosexual, asexual, and/or Other.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ecosex Manifesto )〕 Sprinkle has also long championed sex worker rights and health care. She has also worked as a prostitute. Sprinkle identifies as a sex-positive feminist, and much of her activist and sex education work reflects this philosophy. In 2009, she appeared in the French documentary film ''Mutantes: Punk, Porn, Feminism'', speaking about the beginnings of the movement as well as her own contributions to it.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Mutantes at IMDb )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Annie Sprinkle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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