''The Amorist'' is an English-language
erotic magazine
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launched in 2017 in the United Kingdom.
History
Rowan Pelling
Rowan Dorothy Pelling (born 17 January 1968) is a British journalist, broadcaster, writer and stand-up comedian who first achieved note as the editor (or "editrice", to use her term) of a monthly literary/erotic magazine, the ''Erotic Review''. ...
, after working as a
columnist
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at the ''
Daily Telegraph
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'', a journalist at ''
Private Eye
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'', and an editor of the ''
Erotic Review
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'', started ''The Amorist'' in April 2017 with a "small staff" of an editorial team of four (herself, a deputy editor, a designer, and a features editor)
Sex makes a return to print as ''Oldie'' publisher launches monthly mag ''The Amorist''
by Dominic Ponsford, ''Press Gazette
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'', 26 April 2017 and a "tight budget."[An erotic ''Woman's Hour'': ''The Amorist'' follows boom in indie magazines]
by Emma Featherstone, ''The Guardian
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'', 26 April 2017 The first issue had seven pages of advertising, including ads for an "upmarket" sex toy
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company and a matchmaking
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service, [ with an initial print-run of 12,000 and a cover price of £4.95.][Erotic magazine The Amorist moves online - only after seven issues in print]
by Freddy Mayhew, ''Press Gazette
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'', 11 December 2017
Content
The magazine's founder and chief editor had stated she aimed for "a monthly anthology of erotica, news, reviews and fiction, a blend of love, romance and sex."[
Pelling's stated challenge is "to get it on the general interest shelf next to '']National Geographic
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''."[Erotic Review has love rival with ex-editor Rowan Pelling's new magazine ''The Amorist'']
by The Londoner, ''Evening Standard
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In October 2009, after be ...
'', 23 January 2017
Online
After about seven months of publication, the magazine switched to an online-only format.
See also
*Erotica
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*Erotic literature
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References
External links
Official website
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Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Erotica magazines published in the United Kingdom