Annie Sprinkle Charts The Feminist Porn Movement

If you're not familiar with Annie Sprinkle, first of all, where have you been, and second of all, you have her and several other pioneers of feminist porn to thank for introducing the notion of female pleasure into porn. Annie was also the first porn star to get a PhD, which she talks about, among other things, in a recent article by The Independent (link below) about feminist porn.

Sprinkle listened to the critics and started looking closely at her own oeuvre. “I had done a lot of mainstream porn that was really trying to turn men on. I started looking and criticising what I didn’t like about it. And I thought ‘if we don’t like that, let’s make something we do like.’”

She also talks about the ultimate goal of the feminist porn movement.

As for Sprinkle, forty years in the industry has taught her that there is a lot of “common ground” between the pro-porn and anti-porn camps. “Feminist porn is very political because sex is very political”, she says. “But we want to make the world safer, more educated, more aware of rape, more aware of abuse and exploitation, too.”

Her contributions were invaluable, and continue to be, much like her breasts were legendary and still maintain legendary status. 

Via The Independent