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<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/independent/2008/10/ive-often-writt.html">Sleeping Around: When Catherine Met Charlie</a>

I've often written about my adventures with men (under pseudonyms, of course!) during my time as a sex columnist, but I got a taste of my own medicine this weekend when my friend Charlie wrote a piece for The Guardian about his road trip and named me as his ex-girlfriend.

<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/independent/2008/10/the-hunt-for-cr.html">Sleeping Around: Brief encounters, Credit Crunch special</a>

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.

<a href="http://indyblogs.typepad.com/independent/sleeping_around/index.html" target="_blank">Sleeping Around: Two friends and a baby</a>

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.

<a href="http://indyblogs.typepad.com/independent/sleeping_around/index.html" target="_blank">Sleeping Around: High risk</a>

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

<a href="http://indyblogs.typepad.com/independent/sleeping_around/index.html" target="_blank">Sleeping Around: Exaltation on a mother</a>

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.

<a href="http://indyblogs.typepad.com/independent/sleeping_around/index.html" target="_blank">Sleeping Around: Orangina ad comes to a sticky end</a>

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

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

Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around

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

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.

Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around

Although I hate to generalise about nationality, my passion for British men was reignited this week after I agreed to a blind date with an American. "This guy is a writer too, and he's really emotionally aware," my friend Victoria said.

Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around

Yoga has always given my sexual core muscles a serious workout

Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around

'Not only was he cheating on Angie, he'd killed her off!'

Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around

Tonight, I'm due to partake in a debate at the Cambridge Union on the motion "This House regards Jordan as a Feminist Icon" along with, among others, Edwina Currie and Abi Titmuss. Depending on whom you ask, she's either an evil, amoral slapper who corrupts children and is bringing on the downfall of civilisation, or a modern-day heroine.

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