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Sexual Politics: 
Videos By and About 
Strippers, Prostitutes 
and Other Sex Workers 

This is a list of recommended videos, 
primarily for educational purposes and 
classroom use. If you are interested in 
obtaining any of the videos below for 
yourself or your classes, please write
to info@bayswan.org or order selected 
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For those over 21, also see Sex With Scarlot Harlot 
for feminist porn or sexual representation from women's perspectives. 

Also see Videos by Carol Leigh AKA Scarlot Harlot

Sexual Politics: 
Videos By and About Strippers, Prostitutes 
and Other Sex Workers

CENSORED AT MICHIGAN

These videos were part of the censored prostitution video series 'PORN'IM'AGE'RY:
Picturing Prostitutes, presented by Carol Jacobsen at the University of Michigan Law School. 

STREET SEX
Carol Jacobsen
Profound and empowering collection of interviews with street workers in Detroit. 
"Street Sex" makes clear the need for reform and advocacy. (1993-54 minutes) 

THE SALT MINES 
Carlos Apparicio and Susana Aiken
Intelligent and sensitive multi- award winning documentary about Puerto Rican homeless 
transgender prostitutes in New York City. (1993- 50 minutes) 

MY OWN PRIVATE SEATTLE; TRANSVESTITE HOOKERS 
Randy Barbados
Starring Rue Paul, two slick, short videos feature interviews with male and transgender 
prostitutes in Seattle. (4 minutes each)

PORTRAIT OF A SEXUAL EVOLUTIONARY
Veronica Vera 
This candid autobiographical work documents the career of Veronica Vera, activist 
and writer. The video begins with a description of her Catholic upbringing, leading to
her exploration of the erotic arts and culture in New York. This challenging, bold video
was the piece that precipitated the censorship of Carol Jacobsen's "PORN'IM'AGE'RY," the feminist prostitute art exhibit at the 
University of Michigan Law School. Contains fascinating footage of Vera's presentation at the 
Meese Commission. (28 minutes)

OUTLAW POVERTY, NOT PROSTITUTES 
Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot 
(See further information about videos by Carol Leigh.) Documents the 1989 World Whores
 Summit in San Francisco. Prostitutes and activists from Thailand, the US., Holland, Brazil 
Netherlands, Canada and Australia discuss stigma working conditions and human rights as 
they effect prostitutes. Winner of American Film Institute's Visions of U.S. Contest. Screened 
internationally (1992-23 minutes)

Feminists, Friends, Independent Producers

KISS ON THE MOUTH 
Lillith Video Collective
Created by a feminist video collective, this sympathetic, though 'removed' work 
documents the complaints by women who work on the street in Brazil. 
(1985-28 minutes)

MY BODY'S MY BUSINESS 
Vivian Kleiman
Prostitutes teach safe sex within their community. Street workers discuss safe sex 
practices. This fast paced video is constructed as a safe sex promotional tool for 
prostitutes, encouraging safe sex as a safety issue. Highly charged, interesting 
portraits of prostitutes. Focuses on street workers and safe sex with clients rather 
than in personal relationships. (1993- 16 minutes) 

Gwendoyln 

PROWLING BY NIGHT 
Gwendolyn
Excellent animated compilation of stories by street workers about police abuse 
and safety/legal issues, made by a sex worker in Toronto. Funded by the National 
Film Board of Canada, created in conjunction with Maggie's Outreach Project in Toronto. 
(10 minutes)

COMMUNICATING FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROSTITUTION 
Gwendolyn
Raw and honest AIDS prevention/education made by a sex worker through Maggie's
 Outreach in Toronto.  (12 minutes) 

Guerilla Docs and Portraits 

WHORES AND HEALERS 
Carol Leigh  
A compilation of works addressing prostitutes' role as sex educators 
including clips from the sixth international AIDS conference, a rap song 
by The Yeastie Girlz (Put a Lid on It), Scarlot Harlot's Safe Sex Slut, 
POCAAN (People of Color Against AIDS Network), Cheryl Overs 
and more. (1991-30 minutes) 

SCARLOT HARLOT'S INTERSTATE SOLICITATION TOUR: 
WE ARE NOT A FORCE TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY
Carol Leigh
Silly and fun, Scarlot and Prostitutes of New York (PONY) descend 
on Wall Street, soliciting (as an act of civil disobedience) and interviewing 
unlikely and diverse bystanders. (1991-15 minutes) 
Also fat liberation at fat dykes street party. (1991-15 minutes) 

FREE WHORES (Included in Outlaw Poverty Not, Prostitutes)
with Tracy Tief and Mourning Sickness 
Industrial music version of "Sex Trade Worker," performed at the 
1988 International Anarchist Conference in San Francisco, from 
documentary "Die Yuppie Scum," by Carol Leigh. Includes text of World
 Whores Charter from International Committee for Prostitutes' Rights.(1992-6 minutes) 

WHORE ON WHORE 
Directed by Victoria Schneider. Produced by Carol Leigh. 
Starring Victoria Schneider. Schneider directed this autobiographical 
snapshot of her own philosophical musings and stories about working 
on the streets. Says the director "Usually movies about ladies who happen 
to be prostitutes are just about them being prostitutes. That's the problem. 
What 's different about our movie is that it's about the whole person." (1995- 7 minutes) 

BLIND EYE TO JUSTICE: HIV+ Women in California Prisons
Directed by Carol Leigh. Produced by Cynthia Chandler 
Women's Positive Legal Action Network - Narrated by Angela Y. Davis.
An experimental documentary, this work is unique as it portrays the injustices
 of the California prison system as seen through the eyes of HIV+ women
 incarcerated in this system. Animation and found footage create a powerful montage 
that evokes the atmosphere in women's prisons--the violations as well as the hope and
 courage of prison activists who fight quietly, and from the inside. Screened at WOMEN
 IN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR (Festival and Tour), SEATTLE HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL
 and many others; award winner at BLACK INTERNATIONAL CINEMA in BERLIN.
(34 minutes-1998) 

Strippers, Peep Show Performers, Lap Dancers 
and Pornographers 

A PART OF THE GODS 
Meg Knowles 
Candid and loving, an early work by videomaker Meg Knowles portrays her sister's work 
as a stripper in the context of her role as a family member. Interesting and affirming. 
(1992-30 minutes) 

WAC STANDS UP FOR STRIPPERS 
Carol Leigh 
A fairly rough piece featuring WAC women and other feminists  discussing alliance with strippers 
at a protest against the labor-exploiting Mitchell Brothers. An encouraging document at
 feminist support for sex workers. Basically rough footage. (1994-23 minutes)

STRIPPERS PROTEST MITCHELL BROTHERS 
Carol Leigh
Raw footage of strippers protesting labor violations and mistreatment 
by Mitchell Brothers. (1994-30 minutes) 

SWAM: SEX WORKERS ADDRESSING MACKINNON 
Carol Leigh
This is very rough, though watchable and interesting. Sex workers protest 
outside Herbst Theater before Catherine MacKinnon's appearance. 
Should have been called Sex Workers Against MacKinnon, but 
we were being nice. (1994-20 minutes) 

STRAIGHT FOR THE MONEY 
Hima B. 
Presented from a pro-sex worker point of view, Straight For The Money: Interviews 
with Queer Sex Workers is about the observations and experiences of eight lesbian and 
bisexual women who work as lapdancers, peepshow dancers, prostitutes in San Francisco. 
Bold and articulate, these women discuss the impact of sex work on their personal lives, 
the feminist politics of sex work, and the need for a broader understanding of a greatly 
stigmatized and stereotyped occupation. Featured at International Lesbian and Gay Festivals 
around the world; at Toronto Whore Culture Festival; from India to America: 
New Directions in Indian-American Film and Video, Whitney Museum NY; 
Paris Lesbian Film Festival); Bombay, India, New Delhi and Whitney Biennial. (199x-58 minutes) 


Feminism and Sex Work 

CHOICE? 
Carol Leigh
As seen nationally on the 90's Cable Network. A San Francisco pro-choice 
rally provides the backdrop for a series of thought provoking interviews 
about control over our bodies and self-determination including drugs, 
surrogate motherhood, sex work, and racism within the women's movement.
(1992-28 minutes) 

SEX WORKERS TAKE BACK THE NIGHT 
Carol Leigh  
Scarlot Harlot attends San Francisco's Take Back the Night March 1990, 
organized in remembrance of fourteen female college students murdered in 
Montreal. Clashes and controversy emerge between women- sex-workers,
anti-porn feminists and others about sex, violence and men- with an 
emphasis on the perspectives of strippers and sexual rights activists. 
An excellent feminist discussion piece. Presented at THE INTERNATIONAL 
WOMEN'S DAY VIDEO FESTIVAL (MA.), W.O.W. CAFE (N.Y.), VIDEO 
WITNESSES FESTIVAL OF NEW JOURNALISM (HALLWALLS, Buffalo, N.Y.);
 LOS ANGELES LESBIAN AND GAY FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL. (1991-28 minutes)) 

Actual Sex 

MASTURBATION MEMOIRS (Vol. 1 and 2) 
Scarlot Harlot and Dorrie Lane 
 "For me, the discussion of feminist porn is secondary to actually creating
 the imagery," says director and whore activist cum porn star Carol Leigh 
aka Scarlot Harlot. In an groundbreaking exploration of sexual imagery 
from a "feminine" perspective, Masturbation Memoirs is uniquely lyric, 
comic and political, marking a new wave in women's pornography. 
In this first volume of a four volume series, three "middle aged" women tell 
their stories about early practices masturbating, followed by explicit, 
XXX-rated demonstrations. Recontextualizing the pornographic image, 
each woman invokes her most familiar cultural context: Scarlot Harlot 
(300 pounds of porn star) masturbates amid images of Americana. 
Dorrie Lane (vulvagoddess) demonstrates her esoteric masturbatory skills 
including ejaculation, and beautiful Guadeloupe San Francisco descends 
from her virgin pedestal with the aid of a hi-tech Japanese vibrator. Vol.2 
features Annie Sprinkle, Juliet Carr and Anna Marti. Produced by House 
O'Chicks; Directed by Carol Leigh; Edited by Carol Leigh and Dorrie Lane; 
Soundtrack by Sue Kasper; shot in VulvaVision®. (1995- 2 volumes 70 minutes) 

MASTURBATION MEMOIRS (Vol. 3 and 4) 
Scarlot Harlot and Dorrie Lane
This video is the voice and sexual expression of young, multi-cultural
 lesbians. Each young woman has a unique reference about her sexual 
awakening. Frankie grew up in the Bahamas where girls are only sexual with husbands. 
Jade and Chauncey came from families openminded with regard to nudity and sexuality. 
Monica resurrected her self esteem from Catholicism. Bubbles grew up in sexual ignorance 
as a Jehovah’s Witness. Magdalena was sexually abused by her father and 
demonstrates the incredible healing power of masturbation. Nothing like the usual 
amateur porn videos. (1998-70 minutes)

SLUTS AND GODDESSES VIDEO WORKSHOP or 
HOW TO BE A SEX GODDESS IN 101 EASY STEPS
Annie Sprinkle and Maria Beatty 
A humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at SEX Guided through this unique 
adventure by sexpurt extraordinaire Annie Sprinkle and the'transformation facilitators,' will 
explore the ancient and forbidden secrets of female sexuality. Starring Scarlot Harlot, 
Diviana Ingravallo, Kelly Web, Trash, Chris 'Teen,' Jade, Amy Harlib, Jocelyn Taylor and 
Barbara Carrellas. (1992- 50 minutes) 

Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn 
Directed by Annie Sprinkle and Scarlot Harlot
Whether you are a movie buff, art connoisseur, student of human sexuality, 
spiritual seeker, radical feminist or just plain horny, legendary Annie Sprinkle invites 
you on a trip to seven different theaters where she interacts with the (and worst) clips,
 from many of the 150+ movies that made her a one-of-a-kind star. Beginning with 
rare vintage hippie porn, she becomes queen of kink. After a spiritual awakening 
she shares her findings in The Sluts and Goddesses Workshop and becomes Alice in 
Genderland with the first female to male transsexual love story, Linda/Les & Annie. 
You'll see clips from dozens of movies which include over 75 porn stars. 
Previewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in March 1999. (1999-69 minutes)

NICE GIRLS DON'T
K. Daymond
Female ejaculation hi-art flick in super 8mm black and white film starring philosophy 
professor Shannon Bell (author Reading, Writing and Rewriting The Prostitute Body).
 Very artsy, and challenging. One of my favorite movies. (1990- 13 minutes) 


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in this catalog, click above, write or call: 

Carol Leigh 
Box 210256 
San Francisco, CA 94121 
(415) 751-1659 

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