Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens

Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens

The Kiss, 10:05 min. Video
Music By Andrew Mckenzie of Hafler Trio

Annie M. Sprinkle PhD (born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954) is an American certified sexologist, sex educator, former sex worker, feminist stripper, pornographic actress, cable television host, porn magazine editor, writer, sex film producer, and sex-positive feminist. She received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1986 and, in 1992, she earned a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Human Sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. Currently, Sprinkle works as a performance artist, visual artist, filmmaker, author, and sex educator. Sprinkle, who describes herself as ecosexual married her long-time partner, Beth Stephens, in Canada on January 14, 2007.

Elizabeth M. “Beth” Stephens (born November 18, 1960) is an American artist, sculptor, film maker, photographer, professor and Chair of the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz. Stephens, who describes herself as “ecosexual”, collaborates with her wife since 2002, ecosexual artist, radical sex educator, and performer Annie Sprinkle.