Annie Sprinkle

WHAT GUMMINT DOES                             with our tax dollars

Ellen F. Steinberg, aka Annie Sprinkle, ex-prostitute and porn star turned performance artist.    Her best known theater and performance art piece was her Public Cervix Announcement, in which she invited the audience to "celebrate the female body" by viewing her cervix with a speculum and flashlight. ThoR sent me this picture without perhaps  knowing its cultural significance.  It's not scandalous so much that Ms. Sprinkle invited people (mostly men) to discover the deepest mysteries of what that—   place  really is.  A mystery that any young man would almost certainly avail himself of solving, given the chance (I mean, it's akin to plumbing the lower depths of an Egyptian pyramid in a search for King Tut's tomb).  No, the scandal is that the National Endowment for the Arts granted her taxpayer dollars to fund this, and  similar performances by other perverts. One of the few MOC outraged enough to decry the public funding  was the late, sainted, senator from North Carolina, Jesse Helms. Liberals used it as further proof of  Helms's bigotry and intolerance.  It was a wake-up call to many ( I had already come to the realization) that the Democrat Party was  now  habitat for the most disagreeable people in our society.  And it's been downhill since.  And there are still questions about, you know.