Emily Dubberley
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Emily Dubberley is a British author and journalist
specialising in sex and relationships. She founded women's sex website Cliterati in 2001 and went on to found Scarlet
magazine in September 2004, editing the first ten issues before becoming editor-at-large. She has written 19 internationally selling books since 2004.
, specialising in sexuality and covering topics including male and female attitudes to pornography and whether women want their sexual fantasies to come true. She was also sabbatical editor of the Students' Union newspaper and the founder of the Freefest Student Union music festival. After being shortlisted for the Cosmopolitan Journalism Scholarship, and the Company Fiction Writer Award, she founded Cliterati in 2001, a text-based sex website for women offering erotica, advice and features. She has subsequently been nominated for three Erotic Awards: Best Campaigner; Best Book (Brief Encounters: The Woman's Guide to Casual Sex) and Best Film (Lover's Guide 3D).
Dubberley was founding editor of Scarlet, a sex magazine for women that launched in September 2004. She has written for numerous publications including More
, New Woman, Elle
, Men's Health
, Forum, The Guardian
, Penthouse
, The Star and Glamour
, and has had articles syndicated worldwide. She was heavily involved with a writer's website, abctales, which launched in around 2000.
She wrote the five most recent Lovers' Guide videos, edited the Lovers' Guide magazine and helped create loversguide.com. She also wrote for the Joan Rivers
Position on Channel 5. Throughout 2006 she wrote and presented a monthly podcast show Sex Talk With Emily Dubberley for Audible.co.uk, which she followed with a series of erotic anthologies. Dubberley was also editor of EK (Erotic Knave) magazine and sex agony aunt for Look magazine for five years.
Currently, Dubberley runs urban gardening website Groweatgift.com, is a freelance journalist and writes fiction and non-fiction books. In 2008, after her mother's successful treatment for breast cancer, Dubberley created Burlesque Against Breast Cancer, a charity campaign seeking to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support
. The BABC programme includes Ultimate Burlesque, an erotic anthology co-edited by Dubberley and Alyson Fixter and published by Xcite Books, and a burlesque
fundraising ball held in Brighton in November 2008. The latest BABC venture is a new anthology, Ultimate Decadence, again co-edited by Dubberley with Alyson Fixter and Sarah Berry, and published by Xcite Books
specialising in sex and relationships. She founded women's sex website Cliterati in 2001 and went on to found Scarlet
Scarlet (magazine)
Scarlet was a monthly women's magazine launched in November 2004 with the tag line, "the new magazine for women who get it". It was published by Blaze Publishing Ltd, since sold to Interactive Publishing...
magazine in September 2004, editing the first ten issues before becoming editor-at-large. She has written 19 internationally selling books since 2004.
Career
Dubberley studied Social Psychology at Loughborough UniversityLoughborough University
Loughborough University is a research based campus university located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England...
, specialising in sexuality and covering topics including male and female attitudes to pornography and whether women want their sexual fantasies to come true. She was also sabbatical editor of the Students' Union newspaper and the founder of the Freefest Student Union music festival. After being shortlisted for the Cosmopolitan Journalism Scholarship, and the Company Fiction Writer Award, she founded Cliterati in 2001, a text-based sex website for women offering erotica, advice and features. She has subsequently been nominated for three Erotic Awards: Best Campaigner; Best Book (Brief Encounters: The Woman's Guide to Casual Sex) and Best Film (Lover's Guide 3D).
Dubberley was founding editor of Scarlet, a sex magazine for women that launched in September 2004. She has written for numerous publications including More
More (magazine)
More, launched in September 1998, is a women's lifestyle magazine published once a month by the Meredith Corporation with a rate base of 1.3 million and a circulation of 1.5 million...
, New Woman, Elle
Elle (magazine)
Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...
, Men's Health
Men's Health (magazine)
Men's Health , published by Rodale Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, United States, is the world’s largest men’s magazine brand, with 44 editions around the world. It is also the best-selling men's magazine on U.S. newsstands. It covers fitness, nutrition, sexuality, lifestyle and other aspects of...
, Forum, The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, Penthouse
Penthouse (magazine)
Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network. formerly known as General Media, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International...
, The Star and Glamour
Glamour (magazine)
Glamour is a women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. Founded in 1939 in the United States, it was originally called Glamour of Hollywood....
, and has had articles syndicated worldwide. She was heavily involved with a writer's website, abctales, which launched in around 2000.
She wrote the five most recent Lovers' Guide videos, edited the Lovers' Guide magazine and helped create loversguide.com. She also wrote for the Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers is an American comedian, television personality and actress. She is known for her brash manner; her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent; and her numerous cosmetic surgeries...
Position on Channel 5. Throughout 2006 she wrote and presented a monthly podcast show Sex Talk With Emily Dubberley for Audible.co.uk, which she followed with a series of erotic anthologies. Dubberley was also editor of EK (Erotic Knave) magazine and sex agony aunt for Look magazine for five years.
Currently, Dubberley runs urban gardening website Groweatgift.com, is a freelance journalist and writes fiction and non-fiction books. In 2008, after her mother's successful treatment for breast cancer, Dubberley created Burlesque Against Breast Cancer, a charity campaign seeking to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support
Macmillan Cancer Support
Macmillan Cancer Support is one of the largest British charities and provides specialist health care, information and financial support to people affected by cancer....
. The BABC programme includes Ultimate Burlesque, an erotic anthology co-edited by Dubberley and Alyson Fixter and published by Xcite Books, and a burlesque
Burlesque
Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects...
fundraising ball held in Brighton in November 2008. The latest BABC venture is a new anthology, Ultimate Decadence, again co-edited by Dubberley with Alyson Fixter and Sarah Berry, and published by Xcite Books
Books
- The Lovers' Guide Lovemaking Deck (Connections, 2004)
- Brief Encounters: The Women's Guide to Casual Sex (Fusion Press, 2005)
- Things a Woman Should Know About Seduction (Carlton, 2005)
- Sex Play (Connections, 2005)
- You Must be My Best Friend Because I Hate You (Fusion, 2005)
- Sex for Busy People (Fireside, 2006)
- Whip Your Life into Shape: The Dominatrix Principle (Andrews McMeel, 2006)
- I'd Rather Be Single Than Settle (Fusion, 2006)
- More Sex Play (Connections, 2006)
- The Ex Factor (Fusion, 2007)
- The Good Fantasy Guide (Prospero Books, 2007)
- True Passion: A Tale of Desire As Told To Madame B (Ebury, 2007)
- Girlfriends: The Art of Women Loving Women (Hollan, 2008)
- Ultimate Burlesque (co-edited with Alyson Fixter) (Xcite Books, 2008)
- The Good Going Down Guide (with Al Needham) (Macmillan, 2008)
- Bound to Please (Connections, 2009)
- The Fantasy Box (Connections, 2009)
- Friendly Fetish (Piatkus, 2009)
- Ultimate Decadence (co-edited with Alyson Fixter and Sarah Berry) (Xcite Books, 2009)
DVDs
- Lovers' Guide: Sexual Positions
- Lovers' Guide: Sex Play
- Lovers Guide: Satisfaction Guaranteed, 7 Secrets to a Passionate Love Life
Podcasts
- Sex Talk With Emily Dubberley
- Dark Desires: A Collection of Erotic Stories
- A Little Bit More: A Collection of Erotic Stories
- Sapphic Seduction: A Collection of Erotic Stories
- Stranger Than Fiction: A Collection of Erotic Stories
- Vanilla Daydreams: A Collection of Erotic Stories