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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. |
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