http://www.richardsonmag.com/post/128001/post-porn-definition-by-annie-sprinkle/
A Post Porn Modernist makes sexually explicit media that is more arty, conceptual, experimental, political, and/or humorous than mainstream porn imagery. It often has a critical sensibility and while it usually contains some hard-core sex, it is not focused on being “erotic.” Post Porn Modernism is the genre a Post Porn Modernist works in--currently and more popularly called post porn for short.
Annie Sprinkle coined the term Post Porn Modernist in 1988 when she needed a title for her first one-woman theater piece. She was moving out of working as a mainstream porn actress and into being a performance artist. She resonated with Dutch artist Wink Van Kempen’s title for his art exhibit in Rotterdam, Porn Modernism (1986). It implied something both arty and pornographic. Sprinkle toured Post Porn Modernist for five years to 16 countries. She also named her autobiographical book Post Porn Modernist. The show, the book, and their title became well known, popularizing the term.
Sprinkle’s best friend and frequent collaborator, Veronica Vera Creator of the Academy for Boys Who Want to Be Girls, wrote the Post Porn Modernist Manifesto in1989, which Sprinkle included in her theater programs. “Sic… We embrace our genitals as part, not separate from our spirits. We utilize sexually explicit words, pictures, performances to communicate our ideas and emotions. We denounce sexual censorship as anti-art and inhuman. We empower ourselves by this attitude of sex-positivism. And with this love of our sexual selves we have fun, heal the world and endure.”
Other artists and academics have adopted and adapted the terms, such as the Spanish queer theorist Beatriz Preciado, who defined "post-pornography" in 2002 as “a series of performances, audiovisual representations and practices, activist interventions and texts which, inspired by the work of Annie Sprinkle, de-center the dominant pornographic gaze, question the normative representation codes of pornography and create new spaces for the production of feminist and queer bodies and pleasures.” In 2003, Preciado organized the Post Porn Marathon at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona- Spain (MACBA)—“the first international meeting of performers, queer activists, filmmakers and theorists following the lead of Annie Sprinkle and working in post pornographic practices.”
Artist/theorist Tim Stüttgen organized the Post Porn Politics conference in Berlin in 2007 and did a book with the title. He writes, “Through identifying with joy, independence and agency in sex-performance, Sprinkle made us think of sex as a queer/feminist counter-pleasure outside the victimizing framework of censorship and taboo.”
Today numerous American and European artists, performance groups, and some pornographers define their work as post-porn, such as Charles Gatewood, Post Op, Dr. Carol Queen, Orgia, Girls Who Like Porno, Tina Butcher aka Madison Young, Tristan Taormino, Sadie Lune, María Llopis and Del LaGrace Volcano. Other artists, for example, who could be described as Post Porn Modernists are Marina Abromovic, Ron Athey, Matthew Barney, Jeff Koons and Cicciolina.