Praise for After Pornified

"Anne G. Sabo offers one of the freshest and most articulate voices on the controversial issue of porn, bringing new insight in a voice that is eloquent, reasoned and accessible to all." Candida Royalle, iconic erotic film pioneer

"At last a book that appreciates female directed porn as the cultural phenomenon that it is."
Anna Span, Britain's first female porn producer

Public speaker

I give talks and workshops on topics related to progressive feminist porn and sex films, youth and sexuality, and human sexuality education.

 Anne G. Sabo (Photo: Cupido)

Among the talks I have given are:
  • Modern Porn: Cupido's Film Award to Best New Short Film: A new film award I organized and presented in conjunction with Cupido Festival at Clarion Royal Christiania Hotel, Oslo, Norway (September 8, 2012)
  • "Hva porno kan være godt for" (What porn can be good for): Conference workshop for a national congress meeting of the Habilitation Services in Norway: Disability and Sexuality Network (NFSS), at which I spoke to health care professionals working with disabled individuals about the potential benefits of erotic and pornographic film to their clients (March 11, 2009)
  • The Perils and Potential of Porn from a Gender Equality Perspective: Keynote talk delivered at the International Conference on "Heterosexual desire in gender equality discourse: A point of trouble?" hosted by the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo and the Nordic Gender Institute (June 17, 2006)
  • "God porno?" (Good porn?): Host and presenter at Parkteatret (Park Theater) in Oslo, a public event arranged together with the sex and lifestyle magazine Cupido and the Sexology Center NB22 (June 16, 2006)
  • “Hvorfor porno?” (Why porn?): A daylong workshop for the students in the Master’s Degree program in Sexology at the University of Agder (May 10, 2006)
  • Kvalitetskriterier for porno (Quality criteria for porn): a half-day workshop for The Norwegian Media Authority, after which they changed their policy for regulating porn films to allow the distribution of previously censored porn (February 28, 2006)
After Pornified discussion with the author
Reading at Monkey See Monkey Read
Presenting at Cinema Moviemento, Berlin