I was reading the New York Times Sunday Book Review last night and came across a familiar name — Annie Sprinkle.<\/p>\n
She’s reviewing a book called “Paying For It.” It is the second review that the Times has devoted to this important comic book. Meanwhile, very few conservative books get reviewed in the Times.<\/p>\n
Roger Kimball writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n Devoting full-page review to a comic book about paying for sex is just business as usual for the Book Review. What caught my eye was editor\u2019s choice of reviewer. It\u2019s Annie Sprinkle, the former prostitute, turned sex performance artist \u2014 \u201can artist, activist and ecosex educator,\u201din the words of her byline). How proud the Times was to snag her as a reviewer! In addition to giving her a full page to review this silly bit of pornographic ephemera, they devote their \u201cUpFront\u201d feature to introducing readers to sad creature. \u201cSprinkle has cultivated one of the more audacious careers of anyone who has ever reviewed a book in our pages: porn star, prostitute, artist, academic, AIDS educator, author, filmmaker, political activist.\u201d Savor the word \u201ccultivated\u201d here: it\u2019s like \u201cexperimenting\u201d as in \u201cexperimenting with drugs.\u201d One draws up the delicate are of horticulture, the other physical science, for decidedly more demotic activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was reading the New York Times Sunday Book Review last night and came across a familiar name — Annie Sprinkle. She’s reviewing a book called “Paying For It.” It is the second review that the Times has devoted to … Continue reading