His assertion that after the "post-porn" performance art of Annie Sprinkle masturbation "will never be the same" seems, to say the least, unlikely.
How many young women will feel either intimidated by an impossible new standard of sexual performance, or angry at being treated like a porn performer?
The difference for porn performers is that what is seen as their sexual history – their performances at work – is already a matter of public record and debate.
Witt outlines the feminist opposition to porn and performance, which she says is frustratingly limited.
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Part porn, part performance art, Urrutia's imagined female supremacist terror cell is a URL mostly full of feminism, fury, strap-ons and anal hooks.
That's the film that most resembles "Model Shop"—even down to its display of kitschy porn-ish performances behind closed doors.
Fast forward to today and Sprinkle is a 59-year-old porn pioneer turned performance artist, the star of more than 150 adult films and the first porn actress to get a PhD (in human sexuality, of course).
Her list of "the many-gendered mothers of my heart" ranges from the late and much missed Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the fat, freckled queen of queer theory, to the porn star and performance artist Annie Sprinkle.
The pictures aren't close to being his most popular, but they set the bar for sex performed as art in a way that only a handful of artists, including Cosey Fanni Tutti, with her two-year foray into porn stardom (a performance-art project called Prostitution), had before. .
