Blue Period: Notes from a Life in the Titillation Trade

Blue Period: Notes from a Life in the Titillation Trade

by NicholasWhittaker (Author)

Synopsis

A revealing account of the author's years in the offices of two soft-porn magazines. It describes encounters with crank callers, models, postboys, readers' wives, saucy crossword compilers and sex-publishing barons. It aims to demystify the glamour and sleaze surrounding the soft-porn industry.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 08 May 1997

ISBN 10: 0575063882
ISBN 13: 9780575063884

Author Bio
Nicholas Whittaker is the author of Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as Twentieth-century Hero, Blue Period: Nots from a Life in the Titillation Trade, Sweet Talk and Toys Were Us. As well as single-handedly writing the 1984 Pontin's brochure, he has contributed to a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including Company, Arena, Punch, the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and the Express. Nicholas Whittaker lives in north London.