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Show #5-12 – January 29, 2006
Ian Brown
Sex, food, sleep. Could these really be the only thoughts occurring in the minds of men? Journalist and broadcaster Ian Brown has solicited intimate autobiographical truths from 29 male writers in the confessional compilation What I Meant to Say.
Lesbian Erotica
What happens when women stop being objectified by porn and start producing it? Trish Kelly and Amber Dawn have set out to rewrite lesbian erotica with their salacious anthology With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn.
Margaret Atwood
In our story on Chinese well being, one of the people we interviewed was Margaret Atwood. While we on the subject of sex we asked Margaret what her favourite erotic book was. She answered first by making a diction between porn and erotica. Porn, she said, is to read with one hand. That's its only purpose. An erotic book, however, is a book about real people with lives and the lives themselves contain erotic elements.
Memoirs of a Geisha
In his 1997 book Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden brought millions of readers into the enigmatic world of the Japanese Geisha. Now that the book is also a Golden Globe winning film, the author tells us why this exotic world, where women earn their living by 'entertaining' powerful men, is still alluring.
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Michael Ondaatje, Anthony Mingella, and Margaret Atwood all have something in common and you might be surprised by what it is. They're all patients, and fervent supporters, of this doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine. With the literary community behind her, Dr Zhao is sharing her Eastern insight into the health of woman.
Catherine M.
One of the most scandalous books to be published over the last couple of years is The Sexual Life of Catherine M. It's the true story of Catherine Millet, a respected French art intellectual by day, a sex hungry libertine in the boudoirs and swinger clubs of France by night.
Tart Cards
Accepting money for sex is illegal in most countries. So how do you advertise if you make your living in the oldest professions known to human kind? Trust it to the British to come up with a quirky way to solve a problem. Tart cards have for dominated the beloved red phone booth for years, and our colleagues from Sex TV traveled to London to find out all about the phenomenon from author of the book Tart Cards, Caroline Archer.
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