Annie Sprinkle famous quotes

The single most important key to sex that I've yet discovered is conscious rhythmic breathing; the more you breathe the more you feel and the more you come alive. Many of us breathe only enough to survive but not to live fully. Deep breathing is a door to waking up to healing and to more personal freedom.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Sex #Healing #Doors

I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Sex #Thinking #Stranger

There's a lot of pain and suffering out there. I think there needs to be more joy, and love, and ***** in the world. We are a pleasure-negati ve society. Suffering is much more acceptable. And I want to tell women that they are sexually powerful beings, but they often don't get in touch with it because they are socialized to please men.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Pain #Powerful #Men

Sex is normal and natural, and we've made it abnormal and unnatural.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Natural

My whole purpose is to bring what's hidden out in the open so people can look at it and discuss it. And sexually oriented material is very important to study in an academic setting. Controversy is part of the fun.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Fun #People #Important

Feel free to cover your eyes at anything that might upset you
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Eye #Upset #Over You

I love to engage people who think differently than I do.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Thinking #People

In my theater pieces, I would do "Tits on the Head" - Polaroid photos for $10 on the stage. There would be a line of folks paying me $10 for their turn. It was public prostitution. I turned my whole audience into johns. But because it was in a theater context, an art context, it was socially acceptable.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Art #Would Be #Pieces

I've been putting out sexually explicit images of myself for years. I know this sounds bizarre, but somehow it makes me feel safer.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Years #Sound #Bizarre

I'd like to see feminism really be more loving. Feminists have a lot of righteous anger, and have done a lot to fight for rights. But we need a lot of love and compassion - to embrace people, to educate people. I wasn't a feminist until l I was educated about what it was. I would love to see men attend, and transgender people. Everyone is welcome.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Fighting #Men #Compassion

I usually kissed my clients if they wanted to kiss. I thought it was just way too weird to say "no kissing allowed," That to me was uncomfortable.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Kissing #Way #Clients

My johns adored and worshipped me, therefore they empowered me. When I was 18, 19, and 20, I had a poor self-image and needed attention. It's hard for people who haven't been prostitutes to imagine, but I think it's often true. There can be a very symbiotic relationship happening.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Thinking #Self #People

Blow jobs are okay, but kissing clients is still a taboo.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Jobs #Kissing #Blow

It's a pity that there's such a negative connotation about paying for sex.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Sex #Negative #Pity

I had orgasms with clients, even though it was kind of a taboo at that time to admit it. Women weren't supposed to enjoy sex that much!
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Sex #Clients #Kind

Whores have the ability to put up with behaviors other women would never manage to put up with. That's why we deserve to be generously compensated.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Behavior #Ability #Manage

Some men can be very rude. On the other hand, some clients are absolute angels. One john always brought me a gift every time he came to see me. He brought me a pearl necklace, a ring, a bra or something. But eventually, as much as I really loved all the gifts, he fell in love with me, and he tried to weasel his way into my life. It was too much and I sort of had to 'break up with him."
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Angel #Men #Hands

People who have been prostitutes are ten times more willing to be johns than the average person. So, if you've been paid for sex you understand the value of that experience on some level.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Sex #Average #People

A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Clients #Respect Me #Made

I met him when I was 18. We split up when I was 38. He saw me grow up too. He was a client, and also a friend. Such things are more common than people might think. This arrangement was not so different than many American relationships. That's why the laws against prostitution have got to go. They are totally unfair and mean.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Growing Up #Mean #Thinking

I had many clients who didn't respect me, probably because of how they were raised. We're all the walking wounded.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Clients #Respect Me #Raised

Whores do sometimes break up with their johns.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Sometimes #Break

I had this client I'll call Samuel. Not his real name. I saw him steadily for twenty years, usually twice a month. Over twenty years you really get to know someone.
-- Annie Sprinkle

#Real #Years #Names