‘There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.’ Barry White The food of love has played on since man first found his beat. A million love songs later, from Brahms’ red light performances to Elvis’s gyrating hips and beyond, the world continues to get it on to music. Rolling Stone’s Rock & Roll Daily […]

‘The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.’Alfred Kinsey, 1966 APPARENTLY… ► When his partner reached man caught exposing himself. orgasm, he liked her to throw ► Fortunately, before their a pie in his face. wedding, a man discovered ► A wet suit, gas mask and Ь Л his bride-to-be was actually […]

Sex is possibly the easiest target and the biggest butt of all jokes… suddenly, everyone’s a comedian. ‘Sex is identical to comedy inthat it involves timing.’Phyllis Diller ‘If sex isn’t a joke, what is?’Nella Larsen ‘A really hard laugh is like sex —one of the ultimate diversionsof existence.’ Jerry Seinfeld ‘Think of me as Chomsky […]

Kissing was first recorded in Vedic Sanskrit texts in India around 1500bc❖ Kisses under the mistletoe in the Middle Ages implied commitment andsometimes that a couple were engaged ❖ The French were the first to introducekissing as part of courtship in the 6th century ❖ It is illegal for a husband tokiss his wife on […]

‘I abhor the slimie kisse(which to me most loathsome is).’ Kisses Loatiisome by Robert Herrick 1591-1674 The first erotic touch most people expect to experience, the kiss can be the most magical and most personal of all sexual contact, the archetypal fairy-tale ending or a taboo in prostitution. K-l-S-S-l-N-G Butterfly О do a fade-out О […]

In 1981, Steven Carrington in Dynasty was the first US TV soap bisexual main character. In 1990, ZoeTate from Emmerdale was the first lesbian character in a UK soap, while in 1992 Amanda Donohoe’s bisexual character kissed a female colleague in LA Law, but the scene was shown from behind. In 1994, UK soap Brookside […]

Sex isn’t always straightforward, but it is a natural urge, whatever your orientation, whatever turns you on. This applies across the spectrum, from physical attraction to feeling sexy in your own skin. The word ‘homosexual’ comes from the Greek ‘homo’ meaning ‘same’ and not the Latin ‘homo’ meaning ‘man’, and it is used to describe […]

As well as featuring fallen women in his novels Oliver Twist and David Copperfield, Charles Dickens was a campaigner for social justice. He wrote a leaflet to persuade prostitutes to come to Urania Cottage, a kind of rehabilitation centre he founded with friend Angela Burdett-Coutts in 1846. FIVE VICTORIAN EROTIC CLASSICS It was perfectly acceptable […]

English journalist William Thomas Stead took on the issue of ‘white slavery’, or enforced prostitution. Following an undercover mission to bring the issue out into the open, his success cost him a period in jail. Arranging to buy Eliza Armstrong, the 13-year-old daughter of a chimney sweep, not only helped supply evidence for the Criminal […]