The Independent's holds-no-bars sex and dating columnist Catherine Townsend published her first novel Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress earlier this year. She is now writing a second book and appearing in How to Have Sex After Marriage on Five. Born in Arkansas, Catherine was a gossip columnist for New York Magazine before moving to London in 2003, since when she has had a very interesting - and pretty public - private life... Read Catherine's blog here

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