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interview by Gary Morris
04.15.02
Annie, is all sex good sex?
(laughs) The
thing about sex is, it's enormous, it's so humongous, it's not
simple. And the answer with sex is always: it depends. But in
terms of performance and media and art, I think any exploration
of sex that way is intrinsically a good thing.
Some people blame the ills of the
culture on the repression of sex. If people were really having
sex and enjoying each other, we'd all be happier.
If people
were more orgasmic, and knew how to build more sexual intensity
and more energy. A lot of people have sex, but it doesn't really
mean much. They're not utilizing their full potential.
How have you stayed so sex-positive in our sex-negative culture?
Well, from
personal experience. My times of being erotic, sensual, sexual,
and loving with a lover are the most blissful, beautiful,
spiritual, healing moments I experience in my life. Plus when I
got into prostitution, it wasn't at all like it was in the
movies. Prostitutes either get murdered violently or they get
saved by a multimillionaire. You don't see the happy hooker, the
empowered woman doing great work.
When you were first involved in the sex
industry, did you ever think you'd break out into performance
art and reach a wider audience?
I always knew
I'd be some kind of artist. I thought I'd be an art teacher. In
fact, I am an art teacher. When I went into porn, I thought, oh
I'll never be an art teacher. But I'm hired now as an artist
because I went into porn. But I don't make regular porn anymore.
I make post-porn, post-porn modernism, and it's all safe sex.
And it's all women. I'm making a documentary about orgasm.
Is your family as supportive as ever of your efforts?
Oh yeah. They
realize it's not a passing phase—21 years. It's not even a hobby
anymore—a lifelong passion.
What do you mean by "sacred slutism"?
The secret of
sacred slutism (laughs) is being consciously aware of our slutty
side, our animal side, nurturing that side of us, the wildwoman,
the inner whore in all of us.
The "inner whore" includes men and women, I assume?
Yes.
Do you have any words for gay people who are going through a lot
of shit these days, contending with right-wing assaults in
addition to sex plagues?
Everyone has
a different response, a different thing that they can do. Just
keep it up, keep it up, keep it up! Be strong. Anger is a
healthy thing for some people, and others need to be more
compassionate.
You've gotten some criticism from the right wing. How do you
respond?
I think
they're just really afraid, they're scared, and they don't
understand a lot of things about their own sexuality and about
other people's sexuality. I felt rather compassionate toward
them. As hard as I try, I don't hate them.
In San Francisco, they've been talking more about the
legalization of prostitution.
It's
absolutely ridiculous that prostitution is illegal. Not
everyone's cut out for it, it takes a special person to be a sex
worker. You need a special skill and talent for it. There's so
many different kinds of prostitution.
I'm
interested in the new prostitution - for example, prostitutes
for lesbians, or the kind of work I'm doing, which is really
more for women...There's a lot of new stuff happening. The image
of the sacred prostitute is coming back very strong.
Is that tied in with the New Age movement - goddess worship,
etc.?
Yes, but
that's all very ancient. Among sex workers, they're reinventing
their own forms of prostitution, and a lot of it is created by
lesbians.
What would be your ideal kind of society that we would live in?
Do you see an ideal, or is it all just process?
Let me quote
from a book I wrote:
"I have a vision for the future where all the necessary sex
education will be available for everyone; there will be no more
need for abortion, no more sexually transmitted diseases. No one
will ever go hungry for sex because there will be sex kitchens
all over town serving sex instead of soup. Sex is a powerful
healing tool which will be used regularly in hospitals and
psychiatric clinics. We will learn how to use orgasm to prevent
and cure disease as some of the ancient tantrics and Taoists
did. Sex workers will be highly respected for the important work
they do and desire will be decriminalized....Men will be able to
have multiple orgasms without ejaculating so they can maintain
erections for as long as they want. Women will ejaculate....No
one will care what gender people have sex with. In the future,
everybody will be so sexually satisfied, [and] there'll be an
end to violence, rape and war."
© by Gary
Morris
A version of this interview first appeared on the
Bright Lights Film Journal site. This version from
LipMagazine- original link:
http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featmorris_168.shtml
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