Category Archives: Agony Aunt

“I wanted to make it better for people” – In Memory of Claire Rayner

Tweet A few years ago I was invited to the 60th Anniversary celebrations for BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. It gathered together women of all ages to mark the many issues the show had covered in its history. I was a few months pregnant at the time and struggling to stay awake and suppress endless [...]
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How to be an Agony Aunt (or Uncle)

Tweet I’ve been working as an ‘Agony Aunt’ (advice giver) in print, online and in broadcast media for the past eight years. I’ve written advice columns for magazines like Grazia, Beauty Zambia and Men’s Health; for websites like mykindaplace and mansized; and presented on radio programmes on national and regional stations in the UK and [...]
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Media: “I’ve never treated you like a whore” Sex Writer: “You just did”*

TweetLast week the Independent ran a feature with the exciting headline “I was a hooker who became an agony aunt”. Sounded fascinating. Another tart with a heart story, perhaps? No, reading the piece indicated the headline was wrong. The feature described blogger and sex writer Zoe Margolis, better known as the Girl with a One [...]
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Celebrating this blog’s fifth birthday!

It's five years since I started blogging. So please put on a party hat, help yourself to some nibbles, and join me for a look back over the past half decade.
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