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In honour of the great man’s birthday, here’s the best thing I maybe ever wrote – all about him, first published several years in the Erotic Review: With his gloss-frosted lips, bat-wing shaded eyelids, and a five-inch high blond feather … Continue reading →

So –  I usually use this blog to post occasional, additional tirades on all things sexual, legal, pedantic, and pervy. Before I make it a fully-fledged gossip slate, I’ve got a request. Are you or do you know of a … Continue reading →

If you didn’t catch last week’s Observer feature on the launch of a new academic journal called Porn Studies and the controversy it’s causing, it’s worth a read. Not only because of the way it highlights the polarisation of attitudes … Continue reading →

I’m usually impervious to an “EU bans…” headline. Basically, because I think the EU is actually quite good at banning things that we are better off without, fish dumping and old-fashioned light bulbs, for example (and let’s face it, who could defend … Continue reading →

Happy belated Valentine’s Day! For someone whose working life consists of espousing the life erotic, you may be surprised to hear that I genuinely loathe the annual sentiment-and-spunk fest. This is purely on the basis that I’m not very much … Continue reading →

Re the transphobia Moore/Burchill debate: I wasn’t going to write about this topic again, mainly because it has already been covered eloquently and diversely by writers including Paris Lees, Laurie Penny and Brooke Magnanti to name but a few. But … Continue reading →