The Erotic Review, Issue 6

First published in 1997 as a bimonthly magazine, the Erotic Review relaunched in 2024 as an art and literary platform that explores desire. Edited by Lucy Roeber and Saskia Vogel, designed & art directed by Studio Frith, the Erotic Review publishes stories, poetry and essays by leading writers and each limited edition magazine is curated by a different art editor.

In this issue:

This latest issue features a portrait from art curator Holly Blakey and photographer Oliver Chanarin’s ‘The Rehearsal’ (2026) on the cover. Opening the issue, editor Lucy Roeber delves into the process of realising Blakey’s vision—to create a pamphlet capturing erotic dance in the style of playwright Bertolt Brecht’s modelbooks—unfolding across 48 sumptuous pages inside this edition. Elsewhere, Philippa Snow delves into the media legacy of pornographic sensationalist Bonnie Blue, novelist Vincenzo Latronico explores the semantics of sex, and writer P. Eldridge explores her intersex diagnosis through various references spanning Freudian theory to the music of Kim Petras.