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Looking for stories of dirty sex...

Posted January 21, 2002 1:03 PM.

A couple of weeks ago I got an e-mail from an old friend at Time Out. She was looking desperately for stories of 'dirty sex'. Not sexy dirty, you understand, but dirty dirty. I responded rather half-heartedly with a fairly tame story from my past, and chucked her the names of a few people who I thought might be better suited.

Five minutes later and there's a ping in my inbox - she's keen on my story, but needs more dirt. So I go into more detail. And then still more detail. Until I finally I've described every excruciating facet of the experience - every smear, smudge and slippery sweaty edge has been depicted in full technicolour horror.

Next time you're meandering through a copy of "London's Living Guide" and you come across a page full of gross-out sex-horror, pause for a moment. I'll give a small prize to the first person to guess which one is mine...

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