The Amorist May 2017


Contents


Regulars 6 Diary


8 Letters


12 Dolly Alderton: Masterclass in love 20 One night stand


36 Love and marriage 37 End of the affair


38 Chance encounters 42 Very Graphic Novel 54 On the couch 62 Agony aunt


81 Confessions of . . . 82 Q&A


14 The joy of fidelity Features Howard Jacobson celebrates


the underrated erotic pleasures of the uxurious life


32 The naked philosopher The first in an occasional series looking at human love and desire asks whether philosophy can offer salvation for the hopeless romantic in us all


40 Interview: Pamela Anderson


Rowan Pelling talks to the actress, author and animal rights activist about love, seduction and her new book, The Sensual Revolution


44 Boy’s own


Dorcas Pelling on growing up a girl but wanting to be a boy


22 The rope and the pen


Isobel Williams uncovers the subtle power play of ceremonial Japanese


bondage with her original sketches of secret meetings in the suburbs


28 Ellen Von Unsworth: Heimat


The acclaimed photographer’s latest book frames female beauty in the undulating fields and mysterious forests of her Bavarian homeland


46 Aural Sex


Nigel Summerley on dirty lyrics, musical double entendres and what it really means to ‘rock and roll’


49 Photography: Dafydd Jones The inside eye at


Torture Garden, Rubber Ball and other swinging scenes of London’s nightlife


28 In Love and War


Rick Stroud on the beautiful and ruthless female special operations executives whose seductions helped secure victory in the Second World War


52 ABT: Anything but Tinder The Amorist’s fearless sexual


adventuress reports from the frontline of divorced mid-life dating, including internet hookups, blind dates and encounters with strangers


56 Love and robots


The latest news from the frontier of science and sex tech, including Kissinger the snogging app and what it means to have sex with a robot.


65 The Love Divide Is there any difference between


nookie in the North and sex down South? The Amorist columnists take a view


Reviews 58 Wellbeing 66-68 Books


69 Classic book 70 Art


71 Cinema 72-75 Lifestyle


76-77 The Style Siren Fiction


Twosome, threesome, foursome by Christobel Kent 16 Extract from Tryst by Monique Roffey 26


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