Catherine Townsend

The Independent's no-holds-barred sex and dating columnist, Catherine Townsend published her first novel, Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress, in 2007 and is now writing a second book and appearing in How to Have Sex After Marriage on Five. Born in Arkansas, Catherine was a gossip columnist for New York Magazine before moving to London in 2003, since when she has had a very interesting - and pretty public - private life.

Sleeping Around: Brief encounters, Credit Crunch special

The hunt for credit crunch sex continues, and it's becoming the tagline for more and more ads like this one from Craiglist's infamous Casual Encounters page.

Recently by Catherine Townsend

Sleeping Around: Two friends and a baby

Tuesday, 16 September 2008

A new survey shows that more than half of women would consider asking a male friend to father their child if they failed to find the right partner by a certain age.

Sleeping Around: High risk

Thursday, 11 September 2008

In a frightening piece called "High Heel Horrors!", the Daily Mail lists the health risks of wearing stilettos:

Sleeping Around: Exaltation on a mother

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

As the controversy over Obama's unfortunate "lipstick on a pig" comment heats up, Jezebel discusses how Palin is just another link in the chain of fetishizing motherhood.

Sleeping Around: Orangina ad comes to a sticky end

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

The new Orangina adverts have drawn complaints from viewers for being "too sexy" because, according to the Telegraph, the finale features "shots of Orangina bottles exploding between the thighs of zebras and squirting on to the breasts of other animals."

Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around

Thursday, 17 July 2008

Charles and I were at a party recently when an acquaintance of his, Steve, started talking about a woman he'd slept with on a first date and described her as "a bit of a slut". I went nuclear. While I don't agree with calling anyone names, by his own logic he'd been a "slut" as well.

Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around

Thursday, 3 July 2008

'When it comes to love, older is not always wiser'

Sleeping Around: Are women still afraid to report rape?

Wednesday, 2 July 2008

The BBC reports today that three members of the Welsh assembly have disclosed in a questionnaire that they have been raped, and none of them reported the crime to police

Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around

Thursday, 26 June 2008

This week, I had my first full-blown anxiety attack, while naked. It happened when I was sleeping next to Charles, a British architect who I've been friendly with for almost a year. He's recently moved back to London, and we've started seeing each other.

Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around

Thursday, 12 June 2008

I had always thought I would love two men fighting over me. Until it happened, that is. My evening started at a Hedge Fund Fight Nite, a boxing event in aid of the charity Operation Smile. The room was full of City boys lacing up their gloves, and I was seated close enough to the ring to feel the blood spatters.