Erotic Review
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Erotic Review is a monthly UK-based lifestyle publication. Covering eroticism and sex-related topics, it was first published in 1995 as a print magazine, migrating to an eZine format in June, 2010. In addition to the monthly magazine, available to paying subscribers as a virtual flipbook (or a downloadable PDF), the magazine's website also features blogs and reviews available free of charge.
Erotic Review comprises feature articles, fiction, photography portfolios and a review section, taking a literary approach to eroticism and sexuality. The magazine’s stated purpose is ‘to appeal to the primary sexual organ – the brain’ which it achieves through ‘great writing, which is witty, funny, intelligent, knowledgeable’. Erotic Review is currently edited by Jamie Maclean.
in 1997. Pelling staged a management buyout from the Erotic Print Society in 2001, after a successful tenure that saw circulation figures rise to 30,000. As the magazine’s parent company had been experiencing financial difficulties, Pelling was able to purchase Erotic Review for only £1 plus liabilities. In mid-2003 Pelling sold Erotic Review to media mogul Felix Dennis
, whose company Dennis Publishing controlled titles including Maxim. In late 2004 Erotic Review was sold again, this time to a top-shelf magazine publisher. When the new management attempted to transfer to the editorial team to the Penthouse
offices in Surrey, they resigned en masse, and Pelling was replaced as editor by Penthouse UK's sub editor Catasha Kin. Kin edited four issues before the magazine was withdrawn for a period due to finance issues, as the Daily Mail reported.
Eddie Timon took over towards the end of 2005 and was in turn supplanted as editor by Jan Birks a year later in late 2006. Birks wanted to make the magazine more mainstream, "not just for the toffeenosed or the literary". The change of tack did not work, and after two issues Erotic Review was sold back to its original owners Erotic Print Society in early 2007. The magazine was merged with The Erotic Print Society’s new magazine SEx, and re-launched in December 2007 in a larger format. A second relaunch took place in 2009, when Erotic Review was purchased by one of its longest serving contributors, writer and broadcaster Kate Copstick
. The magazine is subscription-based and is now exclusively available online. The first issue of the monthly eZine was published in June 2010.
Erotic Review comprises feature articles, fiction, photography portfolios and a review section, taking a literary approach to eroticism and sexuality. The magazine’s stated purpose is ‘to appeal to the primary sexual organ – the brain’ which it achieves through ‘great writing, which is witty, funny, intelligent, knowledgeable’. Erotic Review is currently edited by Jamie Maclean.
History
Erotic Review was founded in 1995 as a monthly newsletter for the publisher Erotic Print Society (subsequently Erotic Review Books). It was created by first editor Jamie Maclean, who ceded control to Rowan PellingRowan Pelling
Rowan Dorothy Pelling is a British journalist and broadcaster, who first achieved note as the editor of a monthly literary/erotic magazine, entitled the Erotic Review....
in 1997. Pelling staged a management buyout from the Erotic Print Society in 2001, after a successful tenure that saw circulation figures rise to 30,000. As the magazine’s parent company had been experiencing financial difficulties, Pelling was able to purchase Erotic Review for only £1 plus liabilities. In mid-2003 Pelling sold Erotic Review to media mogul Felix Dennis
Felix Dennis
Felix Dennis is a British magazine publisher, poet, and philanthropist. His privately owned company, Dennis Publishing, pioneered computer and hobbyist magazine publishing in the United Kingdom...
, whose company Dennis Publishing controlled titles including Maxim. In late 2004 Erotic Review was sold again, this time to a top-shelf magazine publisher. When the new management attempted to transfer to the editorial team to the 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...
offices in Surrey, they resigned en masse, and Pelling was replaced as editor by Penthouse UK's sub editor Catasha Kin. Kin edited four issues before the magazine was withdrawn for a period due to finance issues, as the Daily Mail reported.
Eddie Timon took over towards the end of 2005 and was in turn supplanted as editor by Jan Birks a year later in late 2006. Birks wanted to make the magazine more mainstream, "not just for the toffeenosed or the literary". The change of tack did not work, and after two issues Erotic Review was sold back to its original owners Erotic Print Society in early 2007. The magazine was merged with The Erotic Print Society’s new magazine SEx, and re-launched in December 2007 in a larger format. A second relaunch took place in 2009, when Erotic Review was purchased by one of its longest serving contributors, writer and broadcaster Kate Copstick
Kate Copstick
Kate Copstick is a Glasgow-born Scottish actress, television presenter, writer, critic, director and producer.-Career:She is best known for her roles on the children's TV shows No. 73 and ChuckleVision. She also played Marlene Marlowe in Marlene Marlowe Investigates and performed as part of the...
. The magazine is subscription-based and is now exclusively available online. The first issue of the monthly eZine was published in June 2010.