Erotic Review

Erotic Review
Frequency3 / year
First issue1995; 29 years ago (1995)
CompanyErotic Review Publishing Ltd.
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
WebsiteER website


Erotic Review is a UK-based magazine published three times a year. It publishes essays, short stories, poetry, art and reviews, taking a literary approach to desire.[1] Erotic Review is edited by Lucy Roeber, deputy edited by Saskia Vogel, and designed by Studio Frith.

Over the years, Erotic Review has had many prominent contributors, among them Sarah Waters, Michel Faber, Barry Humphries, Simon Raven, Auberon Waugh, Alain de Botton, India Knight, Arnold Wesker, Mariella Frostrup, Claus von Bulow, Damien Hirst, Boris Johnson, Malcolm McLaren, Steven Appleby, David Bailey, George Saunders and Immodesty Blaize.[2][3][4]

Subsequent Booker Prize-winner DBC Pierre published his first short story in Erotic Review.

Meanwhile, Victoria Coren and Charlie Skelton wrote their book Once More, with Feeling: How We Tried to Make the Greatest Porn Film Ever after their time reviewing porn films for Erotic Review inspired them to try to make their own.

  1. ^ Simon Tate "Erotic Review back to Titillate- and Educate", The Independent, 14 June 2009. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
  2. ^ Ciar Byrne "The Erotic Review falls into bed with Penthouse", The Independent, 11 September 2004. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  3. ^ "About Rowan Pelling", Sotheby's, 17 January 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  4. ^ "The Erotic Review Bedside Companion", Good Reads, 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2020.