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Rude Britannia: One Man's Journey Around the Highways and Bi-Ways of British Sex

Rude Britannia: One Man's Journey Around the Highways and Bi-Ways of British Sex

by TimFountain (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

Tim Fountain knows more about sex than most people. His show, Sex Addict, was the target of widespread and vociferous critical media attention and led him to be labelled a pervert and a freak by much of the mainstream press. This, understandably, raised a few questions in his mind. Was his sex life really so different to the rest of Britain? Or was he just being rather more vocal about what he was up to? To find out, Tim has travelled around the country, starting in Bradford at the site of his first 14-year-old fumble, to take the sexual temperature of our age. Visiting doll-fetishists and animal-fanciers, dogging fans and spanking enthusiasts, swingers' hotels and glory holes, Tim investigates our current attitudes to sex, peeping behind closed doors and exploring the private lives of Britons in an attempt to discover just what is going on beneath our stiff upper lips.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 25 Jun 2009
ISBN 10: 0753826011
ISBN 13: 9780753826010
Book Overview: 'Alan Bennett with his pants down - brilliantly funny' - Julie Burchill Think Louis Theroux /Jon Ronson behind the net curtains of Britain, 'Watching the English', but with rather more sex. Tim is sharp, very funny and brutally honest and there could be no better man to delve into the secrets of our relationship with sex. His play at the Royal Court sold out every night for its eight-week run, and he has a loyal fanbase who are devoted visitors to his website. The current vogue for real-life stories of secret Britain means that this is the perfect time for Tim to begin his quest into British bedrooms. 'Fountain makes dirty Britain 2008 sound disarmingly funny, because he's disarmingly funny... he's got a brilliant ear for a certain kind of dialogue' Independent on Sunday 'Fountain is a funny man. He's got a playwright's ear for speech so there are plenty of laughs in the book' Scotsman

Media Reviews
Alan Bennett with his pants down brilliantly funny. Julie Burchill
Author Bio
Tim Fountain is a playwright and director. He has also written two books and journalism for amongst others the Guardian, the Daily Mail and New Statesman. His plays include the double Obie-award-winning 'Resident Alien' about the life of Quentin Crisp and a hit show about the iconoclastic columnist, Julie Burchill. His 'Sex Addict' opened at The Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 2005 and transferred to the Schaubhuene in Berlin. He directed the original West End Production of Puppetry Of the Penis and was Literary Manger of the Bush Theatre from 1997-2001.