Grayson Perry reviews the Erotic Awards finalists’ exhibition in London…
“I was dreading a show of sub-Helmut Newton, sixth-form fetish fantasies set in sci-fi clichés or, golly gosh, I say, isn’t sex sooper fun Carry On “humour”. What I found was a curiously heartwarming display of what is hot and socially innovative in the sex industry … The awards will be given out at the Night of the Senses on September 2, a huge event described as the “Glastonbury of sex” … All this is a long way from the orchestrated outrage about the sex industry in the tabloids, what Owens calls “double porn” in that the reader is twice rewarded, once for sharing in the disgust and once in being titillated by the porn itself.”
