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Annie Sprinkle's Nude Scenes at Mr. Skin!
Annie Sprinkle was born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a self-described "nice Jewish girl" whose parents were academics. She grew up in the greater Los Angeles area, and was a bashful girl well into her teens. Of her youth, Annie has said, "I was not a sexual child. I was very shy and inhibited. It wasn't until I lost my virginity at the age of 17 that I even became interested in sex." However, once she surrendered her maidenhead, sex became her lifelong concern, as for her, sex became a means of expression, then an art form, and then a venue for exploring spirituality, But first, it was a living.
The 1960s and early '70s were times of rebellion, and rebel against her middle-class roots young Ellen did, becoming a prostitute. Her entrée into adult entertainment came whilst employed as a cashier at a porn theater. Viewing the blue movie on the screen fueled her curiosity about what it must be like to be filmed while making love. Initially, she worked a variety of behind-the-camera jobs before making her debut as a hard-core actress in "Teenage Covergirl" (1973). While the re-christened Annie Sprinkle was never a superstar in adult entertainment, she enjoys the distinction of being one of the few actresses to be denounced by name from the floor of the U.S. Senate. Annie Sprinkle had used hard-core films as a springboard for a much richer, sex-positive career as an author, a lecturer/sex educator, and a performance artist. Ultimately, Sprinkle appeared in approximately 200 porn loops, shorts and feature films. Her niche was the fetish genre catering to paraphillias. Jesse Helms, the famously reactionary senator who got his start delivering political commentary on a North Carolina TV station in the days of the Fariness in Broadcasting standard, denounced her live performance art piece in the Senate during the debate over the National Endowment for the Arts. Her performance piece, which had received federal funding, entails inviting audience members to view her cervix with a speculum and flashlight in order to "demystify the female body."
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