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How
it started Creative
Partnership
How
it all started - Forum 1974
Cast
your mind back 26 years to the early seventies [OK so you
were just a twinkle in someone's eye - but if that's the case,
they might have created you because of what you are about to
read!!!....] and zoom into the top shelf of the newsagents
where, nestled amongst the 'men's' magazines, lay a small A5
publication called Forum. The year was 1974 and Forum was
already several years old. Amid public outcry Forum became
the first informative and educational magazine devoted to sex
ever published in the UK. At the time, Forum was probably
the most significant and innovative publication to hit the
newstands. And I worked there as Assistant Editor with Phillip Hodson, who is now one of the UK's most renowned relationship authors,
an eminent psychotherapist, visiting university lecturer,
one-time agony uncle and seasoned broadcaster.
Forum
was the first magazine that openly discussed sex in realistic,
down to earth terms. The forum section of the magazine was
devoted to reader's letters about their sex lives and another
section the advisor offered free advice for personal problems
from top psychiatrists, medical professionals and counsellors.
Forum
was the first magazine that openly
accepted AND publicised the fact that not everyone does it in
the missionary position with their spouse once a week on
Saturday night! In fact whether you were married, single,
gay, lesbian, bisexual, into fetish, transvestism, coprophilia, [look
it up in the dictionary] S&M or whatever,
the single most significant message that Forum had was as long
as you are doing this with consenting adults and not hurting
anyone against their will, it's
OK. We probably saved countless people from nervous
breakdowns, shame and depression just by acknowledging that they
were not alone and they were not freaks!
A
close friend reminded me how she and her husband spiced up their
sex life by reading articles in Forum. They are still married 30
years later!
In a converted pork-pie factory in
Fulham, some of the UK's finest writers, therapists and
counsellors came together [well it was the 70's!!] to create a new
way of thinking. The
Forum press gave voice to and celebrated the hidden and till now
heavily repressed sexuality of the nation.
Of
course it was condemned and slated - people didn't want to
face their own desires or accept that not everyone was as boring
as they were! But that didn't stop us
and it didn't stop such notables as Alistair Campbell, Rosie
Boycott, Phillip Hodson, Dr Chad Varah [founder of the
Samaritans] Jane Firbank [top psychologist] Anne Hooper
[Britain's best selling sex author] Anna Raeburn [broadcaster,
writer and agony aunt, and a host of other talented writers,
medical professionals and therapists contributing
their talents to this innovative magazine!
In
1974 I started working at the Forum offices as secretary to the
Publishing Editor, Al Freeman.
Within a couple of months, I had managed to wangle my way into the fascinating
and eminently more suitable post of Assistant Editor.
I spent my days scouring the tabloids for stories on sex and
rewriting them for a news column. When I wasn't
doing that I was answering telephone enquiries on premature
ejaculation, writing to readers or helping Anna Raeburn to run
the Forum Clinic. It was here for the
first time I came to know and work closely with Phillip Hodson - the then Editor.
New
Creative Partnership
26
years later, Phillip Hodson and I are about to forge a new creative
partnership that will embrace writing, TV series production,
workshop development and much more!
Literary
Agency Having successfully sold his own books to top
publishers and become one of the UK's best selling relationship
authors, Phillip has now taken on the role of literary agent
for my forthcoming book which has already generated quite a lot
of interest! I smell an auction in the
air!!!
PR
- Phillip has also agreed to help publicise the Flirting Academy
and mastermind my personal PR on TV, radio and in the
press. Look out for lots of new stuff this coming
year! Within 2 years you can expect to see me in my own TV
series! Unfortunately, the masses aren't ready for
it YET!!! Soon, but not yet!
Workshops
- Phillip and I are currently working on a completely new
workshop/seminar that will combine our joint talents and offer
YOU the possibility of total change in any area of your
life! We will let you know more about it when
we have completed the development. What I can say is that
you will be able to benefit from our combined humour, wit,
knowledge and facilitation skills in ways that have not yet been
invented... this will be something totally innovative and
stunning! Watch this space!
TV
Series - We are currently putting together an idea for a TV
'drama/comedy' series - our lips are sealed..but our minds are
working overtime - Expect
something brilliant soon!
