70s Porn Star Annie Sprinkle Gives Orgasm Lecture At University of Illinois

Rob Fox12 years ago

Note: Annie Sprinkle does NOT look like that picture. Annie Sprinkle looks exactly as used up as you’d expect a 70s porn star to look.

According to conservative college blog CampusReform.org, 1970s porn star Annie Sprinkle put on quite the show at the University of Illinois, lecturing on orgasms and other sexual topics, as well as watching and commenting on several of her own starring roles.

I have to imagine that this was simply amazing to attend, especially watching a porn star give commentary on scenes she was in. The 1970s were something of a golden era for porn, in the way that the 1920s were to baseball. Sure, the quality wasn’t what it is today, but there was a certain magic and wonderment to it all. When you think of “porn” you don’t think of bleach blonde, bleached asshole, tattooed chicks in high heels getting blasted by some jacked dude who looks like he was in a metrosexual motorcycle gang. You think of curly haired, natural breasted, slightly questionably faced women getting pounded by bear-like coke addicts. Just like you think about Babe Ruth or Wrigley field when you first think about baseball, not sabremetrics and Bryce Harper.

I have to imagine listening to Annie Sprinkle talk about getting railed while the film of some mustachioed, burly, long dead of AIDs man barrels into her is on par with listening to DeNiro give live commentary about Scorcese’s coke habit while Taxi Driver played in the background.

People should really tell me about these things before they happen, because I would absolutely attend. If any UT students are reading this, BOOK THIS WOMAN.

Sprinkle plans to play students her documentary “Annie Sprinkle’s Amazing World of Orgasm” which features interviews with 26 “orgasm experts” and describes itself as a ”poetic homage to the big O.”

Laura Haber, the program director for Unit One, the resident community that is hosting the week, said the workshop will involve participation from students but will bar all nudity.

“They’re participating, but they’re fully clothed,” she clarified.

Oh my God, the University of Illinois put on an OTPHJ workshop.

You have to wonder how much of that advice is antiquated though. I assume quite a bit of it has to do with navigating through a bush so vast it has its own rainforest-esque ecosystem, replete with crabs and whatever evolved from the billions of errant sperm that showered Annie’s pubic forest during the human monsoon season that was her 20s. Presumably, that’s a hurdle most Illinois students don’t have to jump these days.

Annie Sprinkle, born Ellen Steinberg, starred in adult films such as “Teenage Deviate” and “Big Busty 3.” She holds a Ph.D. in human sexuality and currently works as a performance artist and a sex educator.

Is it an honorary PhD? The way actors get honorary degrees in the arts, based solely on accomplishment?

I’m not really sure this whole presentation was as educational (see also: useful) as it was entertaining, but dammit I’d attend it in a heartbeat.

[via Campus Reform]

h/t to @TimPDion