Annie M. Sprinkle born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, is an American certified sexologist , [ 2 ] performance artist , former sex worker , and advocate for sex work and health care. Sprinkle has worked as a prostitute , sex educator , feminist stripper , pornographic film actress , and sex film producer and director. Identifying as ecosexual , Sprinkle is best known for her self-help style of pornography, teaching individuals about pleasure, and for her conventional pornographic film Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle Sprinkle was born Ellen F.
She followed him to New York City, where she lived for twenty-two years. Not long after becoming Damiano's mistress, Steinberg began working in porn herself and, at that time, started calling herself "Annie. 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. The film was co-produced and co-directed with videographer Maria Beatty , and it 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 appeared in almost films, including hard- and softcore pornography , B movies , loops, and numerous documentaries. For three decades, she has presented her work as a visiting artist at many major universities and colleges in the US and Europe.
Annie Sprinkle is known as the "prostitute and porn star turned sex educator and artist. Her work and publications, spanning over four decades, are studied in courses at numerous universities, in theater history, women's studies , performance studies , LGBTQ studies and film studies courses.
She has also presented 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 , she committed to doing seven years of art projects about love with her art collaborator and eventual wife, Beth Stephens.
