"Hands up anyone here who doesn't masturbate." No blushes were spared as London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) played host on October 25th to Slit, a new literary journal devoted to sex. That was part of ErotICA, an event that aimed to put "some of the finest pornographic minds together with artists and writers." At first sight, modesty seems a lost cause in Britain. Last week film-classification censors passed, uncut, the most explicit film in British cinema history: "9 Songs" by Michael Winterbottom, which consists largely of unsimulated sex scenes. A new glossy and supposedly upmarket sex magazine aimed at women, Scarlet, aims to fill the gap left by the recent demise of the Erotic Review. The number of licensed sex shops has tripled to 300 in the past decade.
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