Annie Sprinkle

Annie Sprinkle Ph.D. is the prostitute/porn star turned performance artist/sexologist. She has passionately researched and explored sexuality in all of its glorious and inglorious forms for thirty years, and has shared her findings all along the way through producing and starring in her own unique brand of sex films, photographic work, teaching workshops, and college lectures.

She is also an internationally acclaimed performance artist who tours one woman shows about her life in sex. Annie has championed sex worker rights and health care. She was one of the pivotal players in the 80’s "sex positive feminist movement". Her autobiography, Post Porn Modernist (Cleis Press) is a cult classic and her last book, Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits and Politics of Sex in Performance, won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award (2002). In 2002 she received her Ph.D. in Human Sexuality. Her brand new book, "Dr. Sprinkle's Spectacular -- Makeover Your Love Life" (Penguin/Tarcher) is her first mainstream how-to self-help book. Her current art project is The Love Art Laboratory, at loveartlab.org. She a committed "metamorphosexual" based out of San Francisco, the clitoris of the USA.