Zoe Margolis by Chris Floyd
Emma Ziff
Charly Lester
Andy Jones
Dr Jamie Lawson
Dating in London: a dive into a wide ocean of fabulous fish people, a smouldering melting pot of hot humanity or an anxious, hectic meat market of cold flesh? With February flushing our cheeks for Valentine’s Day we take a look at lovin’ in the city.
With a panel of daters and dalliers representing hopefully a lot of London’s lovers we ponder meeting people in London. How does it differ to the rest of the country and other cities, how it’s changed thanks to changes in technology and in sexual attitudes? We’ll ask how it’s great, how it isn’t and ask what should change?
Ticket holders will also be invited to try our Londonist Lover-In questionnaire where we try and seat you with other like-minded people on the night.
Our panel includes (more to be confirmed)
Zoe Margolis
Zoe is a London-based author, journalist and talking head, working across books, print, television, radio and the web. She is the author of the bestselling books Girl with a One Track Mind and Girl with a One Track Mind Exposed, and you can find her ranting about sex, feminism and popular culture at @girlonetrack.
Emma Ziff
Emma is a specialist in all aspects of sexual and intimacy issues, wants people to realise that there are many others in the same situation. Emma is the Director of Pink Lobster Dating for lesbians and bisexual women and just women who like women.
Charly Lester
Charly is CEO of the UK Dating Awards. Whilst working for Lloyds Banking Group that Charly began her self-imposed challenge to go on 30 Blind Dates before her 30th Birthday. The blog 30 Dates was born, and it quickly grew into one of London’s most well-loved dating blogs. Charly now works as a consultant in the dating industry, working for established brands, and start-ups, on innovation, market knowledge, product design, marketing and PR, and she was an expert advisor to Lord Sugar in the previous Apprentice Final.
Andy Jones
Andy has road tested all manner of sex and dating launches – anything from executive match-making, speed dating in the dark and road testing male sex toys. He was made UK Dating Awards Dating Journalist of the Year in 2014. He has written approaching 500 articles about sex, dating and relationships for magazines and print media for titles like Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Cosmo, Glamour, GQ, FHM, Mens Health and Grazia.
Jamie Lawson
Dr Jamie F. Lawson is an academic sexologist with a background in anthropology and psychology. He’s worked on various aspects of sex and sexuality, but has particular interests in gender and sexual orientation identities, kinky sex and anything with the word “queer” in front of it. Basically he enjoys talking about sex for a living, and has a bit of a side line as a sex/LGBTQ+ activist and public speaker. You can follow him on @drlawson