Pussy Patrol

"My feminist mother used to come into my room and joke whether I would grow up to be a whore or an artist. She was exactly right!" --Annie Sprinkle

We would like you to consider the following for each image:
Is this pornography or art?
Why do you give the answer that you do?
Who are these images meant for?
What kinds of representations do you see?
Are these images offensive to you, or could they be to anyone else?

Do women lose sexual agency once photographed?

How do you know for whom the gaze is intended?

Who is meant to view this image?

Art or porn?

Does nudity have to be seen as sexual?

What is the purpose of drawing a line between art and pornography?

If you cannot control how people view images, how can you say the image you may produce of yourself is porn or not. If it's not porn to you, but porn to others, who is in control of naming it?

Does any nudity in a picture signify erotica?

Some of Sprinkle's work: What if this were a Playboy model?
(image from bayswan.org)

Annie Sprinkle's cervix: the onstage performance of this painting was considered offensive enough to shut down...
(image from xplicitplayers.com)

Does pornography stand the test of time?
(image from thefanatics.com)

Does this embrace offend?
(image from thumbs.photo.net)

Is this porn because it's so Playboy?
(image from vuolo.pochta.ru)

If this was a photo, would it be pornographic?
(image from manwoman.net)

Annie Sprinkle's "Boob Dance": are breasts by themselves pornographic?
(image from aeroplastics.net)

Does this objectify?
(image from andrewmaidanik.com)

Art manipulating sex, or sex manipulating art?