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University Of Illinois Brings In Porn Star For Sex Seminars

By Amy Cavanaugh in News on Feb 10, 2013 4:00PM

It's no fuck saw, but then, can there really ever be another fuck saw?

Last week, a University of Illinois’ residence hall brought in Annie Sprinkle, a former prostitute and porn star who has a PhD. in human sexuality and offers sex seminars at colleges around the country. The week of events included a sidewalk sex clinic, in which students reportedly practiced sexual techniques with anatomical models, a talk on a new sexuality called "ecosexual," which "shifts the metaphor from “Earth as Mother” to “Earth as Lover,” for the sheer pleasure of it and in order to help create a more sustainable world," and a screening of “Annie Sprinkle’s Amazing World of Orgasm,” a 53-minute “poetic homage to the big O featuring interviews with 26 orgasm experts.” She also showed scenes from her early films.

The Daily Illini wrote a profile of Sprinkle, and there are some choice passages:

In the beginning, sex created Annie Sprinkle. Before sex, she was just Ellen Steinberg, born in 1954 and an achingly awkward teenager. Ellen would never wear a leopard-print dress with green cuffs and lapels, with a neckline so low it barely existed. Not in a million years.
But after she lost her virginity at 17, Annie said she suddenly wanted to know everything and became “very promiscuous.” And she started taking notes on what she learned and decided she was going to be someone else. Someone sexy.
Behind her on the projection screen, a much younger Annie Sprinkle romps and moans as the current Annie commented and laughed at the goofiness of the entire process.

Gwen Schulte, a junior in Social Work, said she was a bit uncomfortable, but it wasn’t just with the content of the film.

“I think it is weird seeing porn with the person who is in it right there,” Schulte said. “But she was cool with it, so I was too.”

Annie added cracks and jokes over the various scenes.

“This director was very good,” she said at one point. She laughed as the scene changed to one that featured a particularly unorthodox use of a kielbasa sausage.