Midnight Sex Talk

EROTIC AWARDS EXHIBITION

If you can't make it on Saturday, there's more.

From 30th August to 24th September you can seen an exhibition of all the finalists in the awards. There will also be three lifetime achievement awards this year, given to Nobuyoshi Araki, Irina Ionesco (who will be exhibiting for the first time in the UK), and Sunset Strip. Alison Lapper receives this year's Outsiders award.

It's at Trolley Gallery, 73a Redchurch Street, London E2 7DJ. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am - 6pm. 30th August - 24th September.

RESONANCE - NEW LINK FOR ONLINE LISTENERS

If you like to listen online to the low-quality mp3 stream, or on dial-up, here it is:

http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/resonance.mp3.m3u

That is all.

THE EROTIC AWARDS ARE HERE AGAIN! SATURDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER

Do I need to explain this unique and fabulous annual event? It's generally known as The Night Of The Senses., but you could also call it 'the Glastonbury of Sex'.

For the first part of the night, you'll get to see the awards ceremony, where we award prizes to those who've contributed to erotic excellence, whether as artists, writers, strippers, sex workers, campaigners - and more! And for rest of it - it's up to you, but there's plenty to do, and plenty of people to do it with, if you feel like it.

It's all in aid of the charity Outsiders. Brief outline here.

You can read more here about the Erotic Awards, and this year's finalists

There are still tickets for the event, available here. Please note: there's been a venue change: it's not at the SE1 club in London Bridge any more - it's at the Renaissance rooms in Vauxhall.

Go on, as I always say, you know you want to...

CURRENT PODCAST - KIDS

I am really late on this one, as it's been out for several weeks! I am the World's Worst Blogger. Ah well...

Actually, I couldn't get into the site for a while back there, as there was some weirdness with Barclays online payments, and my subscription got held up.

Blurb:

After football stories and debates about licensing hours, the next most popular subject in today's news seems to be children; and it's usually yet another crime, either committed by them, or done to them. Anecdotally, if you sit down with a group of people and talk about the worst thing about living in their area, the answer is very likely going to be the children - drugs, vandalism, stealing and violence.

On the other hand, plenty of people are still having children and then subjecting them to awful lives, whether intentionally or not. It's heartbreaking. (Despite all this, anti-abortionists are gaining ground. If they get their way, are they going to commit to looking after all those extra unwanted children?)

So where does this leave sex? If it's not teenage pregnancies (in the UK the highest in Europe), it's the spread of STIs, and, god help us, rapes - of each other, and adults too.

So what's going wrong? Because something is. Something's blocking the flow of information (and understanding about self-respect) between adults and children. Despite all the programmes, articles, books, leaflets and clinics, nothing's changing.

In the studio we've got artist and mother Tracey Moberly, and we spoke to Dr Petra Boynton over the phone.

This show was first broadcast on Sunday 30th January 2005. Midnight Sex Talk is resting for a while, but if you want to drop us a line, or tell us what you'd like to hear more of, you can email us any time at midnightsextalk at gmail dot com.