Ive been very busy over the last few months and Im proud to finally announce what Ive been working on: Sex Appeal - a fund raising comedy night taking place in January at Londons Bloomsbury Theatre, ...
Earlier today, I asked for recommendations of female comedians to follow/go and see live. The lovely people of Twitter did not disappoint; here is (in no particular order, but I have eliminated any n...
Ive often wanted to write a homage to Diamond Geezers wonderful Single Life posts, but his succinct descriptions of single vs. coupled life are far better than I could ever come up with.But Ive been ...
Its not about reclaiming the word slut; its about opposing victim-blaming and challenging the sexist double-standards with regards to sexuality.Ill be there on Saturday to make my voice heard, I hope...
I guess I was sad before I even arrived at the café. The night before, I happened to log into our shared calendar only to discover that he had deleted everything we had planned for in the upcoming mo...
PRESS RELEASEZOE MARGOLIS VS. THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYOn 7th March 2010, The Independent on Sunday newspaper seriously defamed Ms. Margolis by referring to her as a “hooker” in the title of an artic...
Dear Men,Yes you. All of you. We need to talk.Allow me to bring something to your attention, if I may. That being the problem of how you sit. Everywhere you are, you always seem to sit in the same wa...
THE GIRL’S GUIDE TO… Men: How To Get Laid When You Place An Advert On A Casual Sex Website.1. Be grammatically correct. Placing an ad that is badly spelled or with terrible sentence construction does...
‘Social networking’ can really be such a double-edged sword.After meeting, you become friends on Facebook. You follow one another on Twitter, add each other as Flickr contacts and share your Upcoming...
Popping in very quickly to say I'll be doing a talk at Soho Theatre on Wednesday (a few tickets are still available) and also appearing on a panel discussing feminism alongside Kat Banyard and Tessa ...
On the record, and in print.You can read my article of last week (with amended –though still offensive– headline) here.I'm incredibly upset and distraught about all this, as you might well imagine.
I've been trying to figure out why I'm taking the jealousy thing so hard. I mean, we split some time ago, and I truly thought I was happy with it all, but right now - christ - I'm hurting, and I'm co...
I'm currently busily swotting away, preparing for an appearance on BBC2's The Review Show (previously known as Newsnight Review) tomorrow night, and wanted to ask a favour of one of you kind readers....
As a thank you to all the readers of this blog, I'd like to offer the opportunity to be one of the first people to read the new book, before it is officially published (5th March) or available in the...
My feelings about New York are no secret; here's my love letter to the city, in today's Observer Magazine.
I suppose I thought I was over it. Over him, I mean. It wasn’t an acrimonious break-up; we split because we both accepted that we couldn’t make it – us – work, much as we wanted it to. We’ve remained...
I opened the front door and guided them both into the kitchen. I offered up the only item in the fridge, a bottle of wine, but they both declined. For a moment I wondered if my instincts had been wro...
I'm still here, just been very, very busy. I have at least half a dozen almost-finished blog posts sitting on my laptop which I will publish as soon as I get the chance. I'm only human, so cut me som...
As regular readers will know, I only rarely plug products on this blog. Mostly this is because –a) Sexbloggers' reviews of sex toys are dull as fuck to read;b) Many sex toys are crap and not worth di...
The first time I met him face-to-face I wanted to kiss him.Actually, I had wanted to kiss him for some weeks; each conversation we had over email, IM, or Skype increased my desire, so that by the tim...
1. You may recall that I'm an ambassador for the young people's sexual health charity Brook. Some Brook employees are running the London 10K race next weekend (I am not able to join them, sadly, due ...
Let us be clear: this is not a fight between 'old' and 'new' media. This not about blogger vengeance or a mob mentality wanting to lay in to print media. This is about journalistic integrity, immoral...
So the Times newspaper has outed another anonymous blogger, 'eh? Congratulations to them, I hope they feel proud of their achievement. Real quality journalism, there.People will argue, I'm sure, that...
– "You do realise, don't you, that people always say, "Oh, you're simply in a 'honeymoon' period: you'll both calm down after a while!". I have to let you know: there'll be no end to i...
1. Amazing: the amount of pain I've been in from my dislocated shoulder. Turns out my long-standing chronic Hypermobility Syndrome, whilst great for fucking doggie style, also has some drawbacks. Now...
Because I fully support MTV's Say Yes to Safe Sex campaign, I agreed to do a photoshoot for their 'Staying Alive' week, which has been taking place at the fantastic Someone Once Told Me site.My photo...
Sometimes, all it takes to fall into bed with someone is a look.Whilst I would never say that any situation affords a ‘sure thing’ in terms of casual sex, and I’m certainly no better placed than the ...
“That’s about 5,000 calories, you know.”I turned to face the smartly dressed middle-aged man who had sidled up to me at the hotel buffet breakfast counter.“That”, he said gesturing towards my plate, ...
It’s been a long time coming, so I’m happy to finally announce that there is going to be a follow-up book to my memoir GIRL WITH A ONE TRACK MIND and it’s due to be published in the UK in August 2009...
Given what I have said about actors in the past, it may surprise some that I am going to come to the defence of Christian Bale and the furore that is surrounding his outburst. But I’m going to: someo...
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