Now I'd like to give you a bit of basic background information on the life and times and career of Annie Sprinkle.

For over twenty years I've been passionately researching and exploring the subject of sex. This has led me into all sorts of interesting adventures. For example, I made over 200 porno movies. I was in such greats as Kneel Before Me, Slippery When Wet, and everyone's favorite Teenage Deviate.

I also worked as a nude model for all of the major sex magazines: Penthouse, Playboy, Hustler, High Society, Chic, Qui, Cheri, Stag all the biggest sellers. But I was also in all the little teeny sex magazines that hardly anybody sees, like Battling Babes, Foot Fetish Times, Enema News, and of course Bazoombas.

I worked as a prostitute, off and on, for many, many years. This is my first hooker ad when I was just 18 years old. For the last five years I've been pretty much retired, but technically I'm still a working prostitute because I do still see my favorite client, Murray. Murray comes over to my house. I give him a lovely blow job; he gives me $300 and we're both perfectly happy. We've been getting together for 19 years now, so it seems to work. It's my longest relationship.

For a couple of years, my best friend, Veronica Vera, and I had a small mail order business, where we produced our own little films, erotic audio tapes and sex magazines. We sold snippets of our pubic hair in beautiful blue, velvet-lined boxes. We also sold our soiled panties. A funny story about the soiled panties...In the beginning we didn't know how popular soiled panties were. We first priced our panties at only $15 a pair, and we got hundreds of orders. We couldn't possibly wear that many pairs of panties. And you know, you have to wear them for at least two or three days to make them valuable. We didn't like to wear panties in the first place. So to solve the problem we started giving them to all our friends to wear, but they got bored with it, too. Finally, we raised the price to $100.00 a pair. That helped – sales did go down - but you know, we still sold some.

Our biggest selling item was the golden shower by mail. For only $35 you could get a small bottle of our urine and an instruction sheet on how to give yourself your own golden shower.

I worked in burlesque doing striptease for about a year and a half. I never really liked burlesque. I much preferred being a...

Professional dominatrix. I got to meet the wildest, most wonderful people who were into the kinkiest, most unusual games. For example, one guy paid me a thousand dollars just to spend twenty-four hours underneath my bed. All I had to do was give him a glass of water every five hours and he was in total ecstasy. You know, if you have to work, this is not a bad job.

I'm a pretty good writer. I've written over 300 articles, all on sex, of course. Every single one of my articles has been published. I also wrote my autobiography which was published a couple of years ago.

I'm also a photographer. I have a little photo studio in my apartment. I was never interested in photographing clouds or pets or people on the street. I only pick up my camera if there's sex or nudity involved. My pictures are published in sex magazines all over the world.

I've also written, directed and edited several of my own erotic films and videos, all safe sex, of course. This is a scene from my last video, Sluts & Goddesses or How To Be a Sex Goddess in 101 Easy Steps. My new project is a documentary about orgasm. It's called Orgasm Scrapbook. Of course, all my videos now are all safe sex. I think that's really important.

If you ask me, of all the things I did, what did I really enjoy most? I would, honestly, have to say I loved making porno-movies. In the early days before AIDS, between fifteen and twenty years ago, making porno-movies was really fun. It was like one big happy family. It was one place in the world where sex was really out in the open. You could try all different types of sex acts and twenty people stood around supporting you, cheering you on, helping you to have the best sex you could possibly have. They would get you anything you needed, change the sheets, hand you paper towels, make you lunch...and then they would pay you. No one forced me into it, really. One of the things I especially enjoyed was you got to wear all these really fabulous costumes.

(Annie puts on a glamorous sheer ruffled robe.)

Where else can you wear something like this, but in porn...or performance art? I quickly learned how to be a successful porn star. I discovered there were three things you needed. Number one, you had to have very, very high-heeled shoes. This is a pair of black, patent-leather pumps with six-inch heels. Number two, you had to have very high hair. The higher the heels, and the higher the hair, the bigger the porn star. Simple formula. And the other thing you had to have was the right attitude.

(Annie puts on her slightly silly, breathless porn-star persona.)

You had to act a little silly. Like just every little tiny thing just turns you on and drives you wild and all you want to do is spend the whole day in bed fucking and sucking...If you could make it to the bed in your high heels...

(Annie hobbling to the bed - with difficulty.)