domingo, 29 de abril de 2012

Up Front: Annie Sprinkle By THE EDITORS


Up Front: Annie Sprinkle

By THE EDITORS

Annie Sprinkle, who in this issue reviews Chester Brown’s “Paying for It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John,” is no stranger to the documentary urge. “From the day I gave away my virginity at 17 I started documenting my sexual experiences,” Sprinkle told us via e-mail. “I still am, 40 years later.”

Sprinkle has cultivated one of the more audacious careers of anyone who has ever reviewed a book in our pages: porn star, prostitute, artist, academic, AIDS educator, author, filmmaker, political activist.

Most recently, she said, she has been working as an “ecosex” educator, touring in a theater piece written with her partner, Elizabeth Stephens, and leading workshops and symposiums.
Ecosex?

“Elizabeth and I coined the word ‘sexecology’ to describe a new field of research where sexology and ecology intersect in our culture,” Sprinkle explained. “We are ‘ecosexual sexecologists,’ switching the metaphor from ‘Earth as mother’ to ‘Earth as lover,’ to make the environmental movement a little more sexy, fun and diverse, and to entice other people to join us in helping to care for nature.” Their movement of course has a manifesto, which she quoted in part: “We shamelessly hug trees, massage the earth with our feet and talk dirty to plants. We are skinny dippers, sun worshipers and star­gazers. We caress rocks . . . and admire the earth’s curves.

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