Is there any truth to the epidemic of sex addiction? Are our children really getting sexualised younger? Are men the only ones who like porn? Brooke Magnanti looks at all these questions and more - and proves that perhaps we've all been taking the answers for granted. Brooke Magnanti is no stranger to controversy. As Belle de Jour she enthralled and outraged the nation in equal measure. Now her real identity is out in the open, Brooke's background as a scientist and a researcher can come to bear in her fascinating investigation into the truth behind the headlines, scandals and moral outrage that fill the media (and our minds) when it comes to sex. Using her entertaining and informed voice, Brooke strips away the hype and looks at the science behind sex and the panic behind public policy. Unlike so many media column inches, Brooke uses verifiable academic research. This is fact, not fiction; science not supposition. So sit back, open your mind and prepare to be shocked...
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She accomplishes this heroic task with humour, skill and passion in a book that is as entertaining as it is erudite -- Catherine Hakin THE OBSERVER 20120415 An important book... exactly the kind of level-headed analysis that could help to dispel some of the hysteria surrounding the sex industry -- Suzi Godson THE TIMES 20120416 there is a lot to admire in The Sex Myth. should be read by anyone claiming an interest in sex and, especially, sex equality" -- Katie Law EVENING STANDARD 20120419 an enlightening must-read for anyone exposed to the press -- Abby O'Reilly THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 20120422
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Dr Brooke Magnanti is a science researcher who studied Genetic Epidemiology at master's level and did her doctoral studies with the Department of Forensic Pathology at the University of Sheffield. Her professional interests include population-based research, standards of evidence, and human biology and anthropology. In 2009 it was revealed that she is an ex-call girl and author of the bestselling Belle de Jour series of memoirs, which were adapted into the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl starring Billie Piper. You can find Brooke online at belledejour-uk.blogspot.com, on Twitter https://twitter.com/belledejour_uk and https://twitter.com/bmagnanti, or follow her adventures in baking at thegyst.blogspot.com.
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Quite an eye opener!
May 27 2012
By heindsight
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Dr. Brooke Magnanti, who worked as a call girl to make ends meet while completing her PhD (and wrote about her experiences under the pseudonym Belle de Jour), debunks various myths about sex, sex work, pornography etc. and shows how much government policy on these matters is informed by shoddy research. On the one hand she provides data which confirms what I already suspected (especially regarding pornography, sex addiction, the effect of adult businesses (strip clubs, etc.) on the incidence of rape and sexual assault and the so called dangers of online pornography). On the other hand, what she has to say about issues such as prostitution and human trafficking was quite an eye opener.
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Feb 19 2013
By Claude Roessiger
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The challenge with issues as prostitution is to separate private morality and belief from public policy. The former only poorly inform the latter. Brooke Magnanti speaks from authority and counters privately held moral judgments with information. The difficulty is that beliefs are tough and durable things and are hardly likely to be modified by fact. Nonetheless, for those who prefer to base their conclusions on information in the place of myth, this is an interesting book, interesting to anyone who is concerned by the intrusion of government into every facet of life, often with terrible consequences. For example, one often finds it said that crime accompanies prostitution. It does, but for one reason only, that prostitution is illegal in many jurisdictions. When one makes activities that are and ought to be private choices the subject of law, the consequences are often terrible, as was the case with Prohibition, and now the new prohibition, the "War On Drugs" that has caused crime to explode across America and the world, as did the original version. The cover of "Sex Myths" is poorly designed, and does not do justice to its valid content.
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