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Article: sprinkle's on top; Annie Sprinkle spent 30 years in the sex trade and still advocates decriminalising prostitution. After all, the outrageous star of Glasgay tells Vicky Allan, there are more interesting things than working in an office
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- October 27, 2002
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"After several thousand men, it was time for a change," says Annie
Sprinkle. "I think women are amazing and brilliant. But I would
define myself as metamorphosexual - always in a state of change,
going with the flow. My last girfriend was a male-female transsexual,
and you know I've had female-male transsexuals." At 48 years old,
Sprinkle has now seen 30 years in the sex industry, working her way
through cheesy 1970s porn to New Age "post-porn modernism", with a
fair bit of prostitution on the side. Her work is a challenge to
those feminists - such as Catherine Mackinnon and Andrea Dworkin -
who seek to define porn as a subordinating assault against women. All
right, it seems to say, there ...