Here’s my Sunday Times Conch column from 6 Sept, hope you grab it by the balls and enjoy. FEMALES CAN GET IT UP NOW TOO – By Paige Nick Are we ready for Female Viagra? Because it’s coming. Of course not without dangerous side effects, like lowered blood pressure and fainting, especially if it’s…
Sunday Times Column
Come in for a quickie
Here’s yesterday’s Sunday Times Conch. It’s about modern dating techniques. Oy Vey. THE CONCH – AUGUST 2015 HOOK UP CULTURE – By Paige Nick We’re living in a quick hook-up culture. When I first started dating online ten years ago, you had to fill in a four-page questionnaire, including your likes (long walks on the…
Don’t touch me on my studio
These days you’ll find me on the first Sunday of every month in the Sunday Times Lifestyle. Here’s yesterday’s rude, lewd contribution. Hope you enjoy. CONCH JULY 2015 DON’T TOUCH ME ON MY STUDIO – By Paige Nick I was recently interviewed on Cliff Central about the ins and outs of writing sex. During…
Putting the fun into funerals
This was my Sunday Times column which ran in the Lifestyle section on the first Sunday in June 2015. CONCH JUNE 2015 Putting the fun into funerals – By Paige Nick Much like youth is wasted on the young, and unlimited sex is wasted on the married, I believe that funerals are wasted on the…
Penis Conch
Here’s Sunday’s Conch which was published in the Sunday Times. It’s about penises, again. There’s no such thing as the perfect penis As if men don’t have enough to worry about, a group of women were recently filmed being asked to draw their perfect penis As if men don’t have enough to worry about, a…
The Author Shuffle
It’s called The Author Shuffle. Or in this case, The Cape Town Airport Author Shuffle. And I think a lot of us do it. Or is it just me? (That would be embarrassing.) You go into as many book stores as possible and shuffle your latest book out of the bottom shelf around a corner…
Crazy letters to a sex writer – small willy
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,…
Ignoramus rhymes with anus
This column appeared in The Times on Monday 20th April: SLIM PICKINGS FOR FATHEADS Last week I went to deliver a package to a certain high-ranking public figure in Cape Town. It was all going really well till I got to the first security barrier. CHIRPY SECURITY GUARD: So lady, when are you due? ME:…
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…
Nizaam the Invisible
Well that was Adventure Boot Camp Wednesday, or what I like to call, The Ship Without A Captain. One very dark and wet Wednesday morning at some unheard of hour, only really good for nightclub returnees, five unstoppable, and slightly grumpy women arrived at Adventure Boot Camp, but their trainer was a no show. Today Nizaam the Friendly…