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The Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop
The Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop or How to be a Sex Goddess in 101 Easy Steps
USA 1992
produced by Maria Beatty
directed by Maria Beatty, Annie Sprinkle
starring Annie Sprinkle, Amara (= Barbara Carrellas), Diviana Ingravallo, Amy Harlib, Jade, Carol Leigh (= Scarlot Harlot), Chris Teen, Jocelyn Taylor, Trash, Kelly Webb
written by Annie Sprinkle, music composed by Pauline Oliveros, performed by Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper
documentary
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Annie Sprinkle, the co-director, writer and star of The Sluts and
Goddesses Video Workshop, had been doing sex work for a good 20 years
when this video came out, in various positions, including prostitute, as
she proudly admits to in this video. And she was never one to shy away
from anything but threw herself into it with a gusto - so you could expect
quite a bit from a (pseudo-)documentary about sex that has her name
written all over it. However, the film simply fails to fulfill its
promise - sure, there's quite a bit of explicit (lesbian) sex in this one,
and Ms Sprinkle does get fistfucked on one occasion, too, but then again
way too much time is spent with make-up tips, breathing techniques,
yoga-exercises, esoteric gobbledegook and the like to really stimulate the
audience, while for a documentary as such, everything covered in this
movie is only touched upon and often presented in a too light-weight
manner to really be taken seriously. In fact this doesn't
really feel like a sex empowerment video (which it claims to be) by a
sexworker as experienced as Annie Sprinkle but a mockumentary made by a
couple of housewives with an exhibitionist streak and a camera and too
much time on their hands. Well, as such at least it's amusing and while
the film is actually rather tame for both its time and its star, there are
at least some erotic sequences (including Ms Sprinkle's 5 minute orgasm)
in it - so not a total waste of time, but not total satisfaction, either.
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