In the four and a half years I was writing a weekly column about sex for The Sunday Times, I realised something very quickly, nothing garners more letters than a column on penis size. I’ve recently brought out a book called Pens Behaving Badly. It’s a collection of my Sunday Times Columns and the mad,…
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Crazy letters to a sex writer – ‘Hate Mail’
Not all the letters I receive from my Sunday Times column are all that complimentary. Rod is a regular writer (just got a fresh mail the other day) who is never happy, and always concerned. He also regularly vows to never read me again, with lots of exclamation marks. The funniest thing is that when…
Crazy letters to a sex writer – Lover Boy
Made a bunch of videos reading out some of the letters I get. Because when you write about sex, it tends to bring out the nutters. Here’s one of them: Straight out of my new book of Sunday Times columns and the crazy letters they inspired which is out now, called Pens Behaving Badly. Watch this…
Now out
Pens Behaving Badly is now available for download from Kindle, right here. Ben Williams, Renee Naude and I trawled through the last three and a half years of columns and tons of letters and picked out the most nuts of the bunch. Then Darrel Bristow-Bovey wrote a very legendary foreword, James B Hannah let us use his…
Dog Box
This letter is the best. Relationships are hilarious. Especially in South Africa, where our differences couldn’t be more vast. This letter was in response to a column on jokes and humour. Poor old Dog Box, but I think he won in the end. 24 September 2013 Hi Nick As I am reading your column on this Heritage…
Now that’s some kinky shit
I don’t only get hate mail in response to my weekly Sunday Times column about sex. I get the odd funny ones too, like this one, in response to a column on being kinky: 1 August 2013 Subject: the difference between kinky and perverse Hi Paige Enjoyed your column last week as per. It brought…
Sand in his knickers
I love the letters I get from my weekly Sunday Times column from the really, truly, wildly offended. Like this guy: 27 January 2013, at 15:56 Subject: Enough already! Dear Paige, I sort of half scan your column each week as I head towards the soduku and crosswords and normally just shake my head and move…
Naughty Pens
Back in my twenties, I didn’t always make the best decisions. There was that tattoo done by a lady named Rose, in a trailer, after a Metallica concert in Fargo, North Dakota. Those nights at upstairs Mama Africa, taking rides from strangers, and all that whisky… so much whisky. But through the haze of good times there were also one…