| Emily Dubberley | |
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Emily Dubberley (born 1974, Cheltenham) is a British author and journalist specialising in sex and relationships. She founded women's sex website Cliterati in 2001 and went on to found Scarlet magazine in September 2004, editing the first ten issues before becoming editor-at-large. She has written 19 internationally selling books since 2004.
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Dubberley studied Social Psychology at Loughborough University, specialising in sexuality and covering topics including male and female attitudes to pornography and whether women want their sexual fantasies to come true. She was also sabbatical editor of the Students' Union newspaper and the founder of the Freefest Student Union music festival. After being shortlisted for the Cosmopolitan Journalism Scholarship, and the Company Fiction Writer Award, she founded Cliterati in 2001, a text-based sex website for women offering erotica, advice and features. She has subsequently been nominated for three Erotic Awards: Best Campaigner; Best Book (Brief Encounters: The Woman's Guide to Casual Sex) and Best Film (Lover's Guide 3D).
Dubberley was founding editor of Scarlet, a sex magazine for women that launched in September 2004. She has written for numerous publications including More, New Woman, Elle, Men's Health, Forum, The Guardian, Penthouse, The Star and Glamour, and has had articles syndicated worldwide. She was heavily involved with a writer's website, abctales, which launched in around 2000.
She wrote the five most recent Lovers' Guide videos, edited the Lovers' Guide magazine and helped create loversguide.com. She also wrote for the Joan Rivers Position on Channel 5. Throughout 2006 she wrote and presented a monthly podcast show Sex Talk With Emily Dubberley for Audible.co.uk, which she followed with a series of erotic anthologies. Dubberley was also editor of EK (Erotic Knave) magazine and sex agony aunt for Look magazine for five years.
Currently, Dubberley runs urban gardening website Groweatgift.com, is a freelance journalist and writes fiction and non-fiction books. In 2008, after her mother's successful treatment for breast cancer, Dubberley created Burlesque Against Breast Cancer, a charity campaign seeking to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. The BABC programme includes Ultimate Burlesque, an erotic anthology co-edited by Dubberley and Alyson Fixter and published by Xcite Books, and a burlesque fundraising ball held in Brighton in November 2008. The latest BABC venture is a new anthology, Ultimate Decadence, again co-edited by Dubberley with Alyson Fixter and Sarah Berry, and published by Xcite Books