SAN FRANCISCO—PinkLabel.TV announced a special curation of Golden Age performer-turned-director Candida Royalle's Rites of Passion (1987) as part of "Higher Love: The Psychedelic Roots of Modern Sexuality" at the Museum of Sex in New York.
The exhibit features a clip from the film, titled "In Search of the Ultimate Sex Experience," directed by classic triple-X star Annie Sprinkle.
In the video, “Sprinkle shares the story of a woman whose search for fulfillment leads her through wild sexual adventures until she discovers ancient lovemaking secrets brought to her by a mysterious Adonis-like 'master.' An auto-biographical tongue-in-cheek journey, the story features '80s star Jeanna Fine as a jaded woman who finds fulfillment when hunky guru David Israel Sandler shows her the joys of Tantric sex,” a scene description said.
“From the counterculture call to 'turn on and tune in,' to the quest of the modern 'psychonaut' for self-realization, psychoactive substances have been understood to transform body and mind. Yet, the drugs we now refer to as psychedelics have much more varied and complex historical intersections with sexuality than the standard story of Western sexual liberation might lead us to believe,” a studio representative added.
The exhibition “draws on hidden histories and marginalized stories, oftentimes those of women, to illustrate how our understanding of sexuality in the 21st century has been transformed by the ‘altered states’ brought about and inspired by psychedelic substances. In the wake of a major resurgence of psychedelic research, which has informed the loosening of legal prohibitions on psychedelics and an uptake in use, the time has come to tell new stories about the psychedelic future of sex,” the representative said further.
Find the full video Rites of Passion, as well as other films directed by Sprinkle and the late Royalle, available streaming to a global audience on PinkLabel.TV.
"Higher Love: The Psychedelic Roots of Modern Sexuality" opened on March 27 and runs through September 17, at New York’s Museum of Sex. For more information and tickets visit MuseumofSex.com.
