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belle de jour is andromeda mehealani godfrey of Hove nr Brighton, originally from Kamuela hawaii aged 43 birthday 20/6/1969 height 5 foot 1 inch, size 12,
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'''Brooke Magnanti''' (born 5 November 1975) is a research scientist, blogger, and writer, who, until her identity was revealed in November 2009, was known by the pen name '''Belle de Jour'''.<ref name="times"/> While completing her doctoral studies, between 2003 and 2004, Magnanti supplemented her income by working as a London [[call girl]]. Her diary, published as the anonymous blog ''Belle de Jour: Diary of a London Call Girl'' became increasingly popular, as speculation surrounded the identity of Belle de Jour, and whether the diary was real. Remaining anonymous, Magnanti went on to have her experiences published as ''[[The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl]]'' in 2005 and ''The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl'' in 2006. Her first two books were UK top 10 best-sellers in the nonfiction hardback and nonfiction paperback lists. In 2007, Belle's blogs and books were adapted into a television programme, ''[[Secret Diary of a Call Girl]]'', starring [[Billie Piper]] as Belle, with the real name [[Hannah Baxter]]. In November 2009, reportedly fearing her real identity was about to come out, Magnanti revealed her real name and occupation as a child health scientist.


==Personal life==
her best friend is brooke magnanti who so helpfully agreed to share the gravy train by getting some attention for herself.
===Background and education===
Magnanti grew up in Florida. She graduated from the private [[Clearwater Central Catholic High School]], where she became a [[National Merit Scholarship Program|National Merit Scholar]], in 1992, and entered university at the age of 16, going on to receive a B.S. in 1996 from [[Florida State University]]. She later studied for a master's degree in [[genetic epidemiology]] and Ph.D. in [[forensic science]] from the [[University of Sheffield]] in England. The Ph.D. thesis was submitted in 2003 and doctorate awarded in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|title=Macrobioinformatics: the Application of Informatics Methods to Records of Human Remains|publisher=[[University of Sheffield]]|year=2003|author=Brooke Leigh Magnanti|url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Macrobioinformatics-Application-Informatics-Methods-Records/dp/B001PD72FW/|accessdate=7 January 2010}}</ref>


==Identity==
elaine benes, are you busy fixing this page again now??? andromeda godfrey has been a prostitue nearly all her life. she is no research scientist and to be honest she aint much to look at either.
===Pseudonym===
Her pseudonym recalls the 1928 novel ''[[Belle de jour (novel)|Belle de jour]]'' by [[Joseph Kessel]] and the 1967 [[Belle de jour (film)|film of the same name]] starring [[Catherine Deneuve]], directed by [[Luis Buñuel]]. In French "Belle de Jour" is an expression translating literally as "beauty of [the] day," as opposed to "femme de nuit" or "belle de nuit," woman of the night (common euphemisms for prostitute).

The weblog ''Belle de Jour: Diary of a London call girl'' first appeared in October 2003<ref name="Belle de Jour October 2003 archive">{{cite web|url=http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html|title=Belle de Jour October 2003 archive|accessdate=12 December 2010}}</ref> and won the ''Guardian'' newspaper's Best British Weblog 2003, in the second year of the award's existence. There was speculation in the media for several years as to the real identity of the author, whether Belle really was a call girl. Guesses as to who Belle was ranged from [[Rowan Pelling]] to [[Toby Young]] according to ''The Telegraph''. Book contracts, copyright, and author payment were handled not under a real name but by the company Bizrealm Limited in order to maintain anonymity.<ref name="Bizrealm Limited listing companies house">{{cite web|url=http://www.companiesgate.co.uk/BIZREALM+LIMITED.aspx|title=Bizrealm Limited listing companies house archive|accessdate=12 December 2010}}</ref> In 2004 ''The Sunday Times'' featured a front-page headline incorrectly identifying [[Sarah Champion (journalist)|Sarah Champion]] as the author of the blog based on erroneous textual analysis by [[Donald Wayne Foster|Don Foster]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1174520,00.html | title=I was branded a call-girl blogger |work=The Observer |location=UK | date=21 March 2004 | accessdate=20 June 2006 | first=Sarah | last=Champion}}</ref>

According to ''[[The Guardian]]'' a fellow British blogger guessed her identity in 2003 but kept it secret. He made a page on his blog containing the [[googlewhack]] of Belle de Jour and Brooke Magnanti that allowed him to see if anyone googled the two names. In 2009 he identified IP addresses originating from [[Associated Newspapers]] that had accessed the page at which point he contacted Magnanti to alert her.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/18/belle-de-jour-identity-secret|title=I guessed Belle de Jour's identity, blogger reveals|last=Addley|first=Esther|date=18 November 2009|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=18 November 2009 | location=London}}</ref> Around the same time tabloid reporters had been escorted from the hospital where she worked for breaking into her office.<ref name="Magnanti">{{cite news|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article7078631.ece|title=Life without the mask of Belle de Jour|last=Magnanti|first=Brooke|date=28 March 2010|newspaper=The Times |publisher=Times Newspapers |accessdate=15 December 2010 | location=London}}</ref>

=== Revelation of identity ===
On 15 November 2009, ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' revealed in an interview that the author's real name is Brooke Magnanti,<ref name="times">{{cite news|title=I'm Belle de Jour|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6917495.ece|author=India Knight|date=15 November 2009|accessdate=15 November 2009|work=The Sunday Times|publisher=Times Newspapers | location=London}}</ref> who was 34 years of age at the time.<ref name="Belle de Jour author unmask herself amid 'perfect storm' of feelings"/> ''[[The Guardian]]''{{'}}s Paul Gallagher described it as the revelation of "one of the best kept literary secrets of the decade".<ref name="Scientist announces that she is call girl and blogger Belle de Jour">{{cite news|author=Gallagher, Paul|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/15/belle-de-jour-blogger-prostitute|title=Scientist announces that she is call girl and blogger Belle de Jour|date=15 November 2009|accessdate=28 March 2010|newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | location=London}}</ref> ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''{{'}}s Stephen Adams said it had been "the new millennium's equivalent of the 1980s' [[Masquerade (book)|search for the golden hare]]".<ref name="Belle de Jour author unmask herself amid 'perfect storm' of feelings">{{cite news|author=Stephen Adams|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/6573504/Belle-de-Jour-author-unmask-herself-amid-perfect-storm-of-feelings.html|title=Belle de Jour author unmask herself amid 'perfect storm' of feelings|date=15 November 2009|accessdate=15 November 2009|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] | location=London}}</ref> Such was the nature of the secret, Magnanti's work colleagues did not know until one month before she went public, her publishers had been unaware of her true identity until the previous week and her parents found out on that weekend.<ref name="Belle de Jour author unmask herself amid 'perfect storm' of feelings"/><ref name="Scientist announces that she is call girl and blogger Belle de Jour"/><ref name="Belle de Jour lifts her veil"/> After signing her first book deal and starting writing articles for newspapers, only two other people were aware of her identity, her agent Patrick Walsh and her accountant, who handled the financial transactions via a shell corporation.<ref>Ryan Hagen: [http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/a-few-questions-for-belle-de-jour-call-girl-and-scientist/ ''A Few Questions for Belle de Jour, Call Girl and Scientist''] – Freakonomics blog (accessed 21 November 2009)</ref><ref name="Exposed: The most intimate secret of erotic blogger">{{cite news|author=Arifa Akbar|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10609564|title=Exposed: The most intimate secret of erotic blogger|date=16 November 2009|accessdate=16 November 2009|newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]]}}</ref> Magnanti commented that she had thought a former boyfriend was on the verge of outing her,<ref name="Belle de Jour lifts her veil">{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/15/belledejour-prostitute-magnanti.html|title=Belle de Jour lifts her veil|date=15 November 2009|accessdate=15 November 2009|publisher=[[CBC News]]}}</ref><ref name="Belle de Jour drops her anonymity">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8361557.stm|title=Belle de Jour drops her anonymity|date=15 November 2009|accessdate=15 November 2009|publisher=BBC }}</ref> and later reported him to the police for threats and harassment against her and her partner.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6608259/Belle-de-Jour-calls-in-police-after-ex-boyfriends-internet-rant.html|title=Belle de Jour calls in police after ex-boyfriend's internet rant|last=Rayner|first=Gordon|date=15 December 2010|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=15 December 2010 | location=London}}</ref>

Writing on her blog on the day of the revelation, Magnanti stated:
<blockquote>
It feels so much better on this side. Not to have to tell lies, hide things from the people I care about. To be able to defend what my experience of sex work is like to all the sceptics and doubters. Anonymity had a purpose then – it will always have a reason to exist, for writers whose work is too damaging or too controversial to put their names on<ref name="Belle de Jour drops her anonymity"/>
</blockquote>

A spokesperson for Bristol University stated, "This aspect of Dr Magnanti's past is not relevant to her current role at the university", while her publisher said, "It's a courageous decision for Belle de Jour to come forward with her true identity and we support her decision to do so".<ref name="Belle de Jour drops her anonymity"/>

Since unveiling her identity as Belle de Jour, images of Brooke Magnanti appeared in several national newspapers.

===Libel case===

In June 2011 it was revealed that a man claiming to be an ex-boyfriend of Belle de Jour had filed a lawsuit against the ''Sunday Times'' for defamation caused by his mention in the paper. The £100k libel claim, filed by Flight Lieutenant Owen Morris<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/VICE+LITTLE+EARNER%3B+RAF+officer+sues+for+pounds+100,000+over+ex-lover...-a0258403172|title=VICE LITTLE EARNER RAF officer sues for pounds 100,000}}</ref> of [[RAF Lossiemouth]], was based on two previous interviews with Magnanti in the paper and their versions published online. The claim was made that following her outing, he was widely identified as her former boyfriend and therefore mentions of his purported harassment in the articles had been damaging.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47338&c=1|title=Belle de Jour ex in Sunday Times 100 k libel claim|last=Limbrick|first=Sarah|date=22 June 2011|newspaper=The Press Gazette|accessdate=23 June 2011 | location=London}}</ref>

==Career==
===Diary of a London Call Girl===
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Magnanti says she worked for 14 months as a £300-an-hour prostitute for a London [[escort agency]] from 2003, after submitting her PhD [[Thesis or dissertation|thesis]].<ref name="Belle de Jour author unmask herself amid 'perfect storm' of feelings"/><ref name="Scientist announces that she is call girl and blogger Belle de Jour"/> She did so due to lack of funds before her ''[[Oral exam|viva voce]]'' at the [[University of Sheffield]] in 2003.<ref name="Belle de Jour author unmask herself amid 'perfect storm' of feelings"/>

She had previously been a science blogger using her real name and started blogging about sex work under a pseudonym.<ref name="Scientist announces that she is call girl and blogger Belle de Jour"/> ''Diary of a London Call Girl'' was voted Blog of the Year by ''[[The Guardian]]'' newspaper in 2003. Awards judge [[Bruce Sterling]] called it "Archly transgressive, anonymous hooker is definitely manipulating the blog medium, word by word, sentence by sentence far more effectively than any of her competitors ... She is in a league by herself as a blogger."<ref>{{cite news|title=British Blog Awards 2003|work=The Guardian |location=UK |url=http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/weblogs/story/0,14024,1108883,00.html|accessdate=21 November 2007 | first=Simon | last=Waldman | date=18 December 2003}}</ref> Shortly after receiving the award she signed with literary agency [[Conville and Walsh]] who negotiated a publishing deal with [[Weidenfeld & Nicholson]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Bookseller rights report brief article|url=http://business.highbeam.com/115/article-1G1-114630796/helen-garnonswilliams-weidenfeld-has-beaten-serpent|accessdate=28 December 2010}}</ref>

Reviews of the books compared her writing to the works of [[Martin Amis]] and [[Nick Hornby]],<ref>{{cite news|title=A tomboy in stilettos|newspaper=The Independent|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-intimate-adventures-of-a-london-callgirl-by-belle-de-jour-748265.html|accessdate=28 December 2010 | location=London | first=Katy | last=Guest | date=21 January 2005}}</ref> and she frequently quotes from the poems of [[Philip Larkin]]. Themes of the blog and books focus on isolation and [[Persona (psychology)|personae]]. "Solitude as much as sex propels these books ... Belle's prickly disbelief in any lasting togetherness picks up an almost existential heft".<ref>{{cite news|title=Kiss & tell: The twilight world of tart-lit|newspaper=The Independent|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/kiss-amp-tell-the-twilight-world-of-tartlit-1005492.html|accessdate=28 December 2010 | location=London | first=Boyd | last=Tonkin | date=10 November 2008}}</ref> She writes in ''Playing the Game'' "it's not all about the sex – never has been – it's about the heart of darkness."<ref>{{cite web|title=Diary of a London Call Girl|url=http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html|accessdate=28 December 2010}}</ref>

===Later work===
Magnanti's publisher, [[Orion Books]], printed her first two books as part of its "Non Fiction/Memoir" line.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl|publisher=[[Orion Books]]|url=http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/MP-42688/The-Intimate-Adventures-Of-A-London-Call-Girl.htm|accessdate=21 November 2007}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Her third book was been classified as fiction and represents a fictional continuation from the first two. Her books have been published in the UK, US, Portugal, Spain, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, and China.

From November 2005 until May 2006, Magnanti contributed a regular column in ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Belle de Jour – Diary of a London Call Girl|url=http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/|accessdate=23 June 2008}}</ref> Since her identity had been revealed she has written about UK libel laws and their effect on science for [[guardian.co.uk|Comment Is Free]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/mar/11/libel-tourism-bad-science |title=Libel tourism is a public health risk |work=The Guardian |location=UK |date=11 March 2010 |accessdate=28 December 2010 |first=Brooke |last=Magnanti}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/01/simon-singh-libel-brooke-magnanti |title=Simon Singh and the threat to science |work=The Guardian |location=UK |date=1 April 2010 |accessdate=28 December 2010 |first=Brooke |last=Magnanti}}</ref>

On 25 February 2010 Magnanti appeared on the BBC political affairs programme [[This Week (BBC TV series)|''This Week'']] to discuss the subject of [[Sex_education#England_and_Wales|sex education]].<ref name=BBCThisWeek2010Gallery>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_week/guest_gallery/8446321.stm |title=The This Week Guest Gallery 2010 |publisher=BBC News |date=undated |accessdate=9 June 2010}}</ref> She is also an occasional guest on ''The Book Show'' broadcast on [[Sky Arts]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Belle de Jour on The Book Show|url=http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/homepage/369662/brooke_magnanti_belle_de_jour.html|accessdate=2 December 2010}}</ref> and has spoken at a number of venues including the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival in conversation with [[India Knight]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Belle de Jour in conversation with India Knight|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8539000/8539500.stm|accessdate=2 December 2010 |work=BBC News |date=2 March 2010}}</ref> She has also spoken on internet and forensic identity as part of the [[Bristol Festival of Ideas]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Identity and Identification|url=http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/?p=428|accessdate=2 December 2010}}</ref> and was a guest on the [[Stephen Fry]] 2011 series ''Fry's Planet Word''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2087142/ |title=Spreading the Word}}</ref>

In 2011 Magnanti closed down her Belle de Jour blog and started to use the original url as her official website instead. She continued blogging however at her two new blogs ''The Sex Myth'' and ''The Gyst Of It''. The former deals with social and political topics often related to sexuality, whereas the latter deals with all things related to [[yeast]] (=gyst), primarily recipes and food preparation. In addition she's a contributor to the online magazine ''Freedom in a Puritan Age''.<ref>http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/ (retrieved 2012-1-22)</ref>

In 2012 Magnanti was selected as ambassador for the [[Inverness]] [[Whisky]] Festival.<ref>http://news.stv.tv/scotland/302897-whisky-festival-appeals-to-trendy-audience/ (retrieved 2012-4-8)</ref>

===Scientist===
Magnanti's PhD thesis, for which she studied within the [[University of Sheffield]] Department of [[Forensic Pathology]], was entitled ''Macrobioinformatics: the application of informatics methods to records of human remains''. It was submitted in September 2003 and the degree was awarded in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|title=Macrobioinformatics: the application of informatics methods to records of human remains|url=http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/HLKHELQB1VD4F75HEES3BCIUNS4PPFMYU2CU4QLHS4GLDGXQVM-15846?func=full-set-set&set_number=056690&set_entry=000001&format=999|publisher=British Library|accessdate=2 December 2010}}</ref> After moving to London and while blogging as ''Belle de Jour'' she also worked as a computer programmer in [[cheminformatics]] at [[Discovery Net|InforSense]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Wayback archive of www.eyesopen.com|url=http://www.eyesopen.com/about/events/archives/cup_v/index.html |publisher=OpenEye Scientific Software|accessdate=28 December 2010 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20050907162604/http://www.eyesopen.com/about/events/archives/cup_v/index.html |archivedate = 7 September 2005}}</ref> She blogged about this career at Cosmas.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wayback archive of Cosmas cheminformatics blog|url=http://www.methylsalicylate.com/cosmas/|accessdate=28 December 2010 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040803094654/www.methylsalicylate.com/cosmas/ |archivedate=3 August 2004}}</ref>

Magnanti went on to work as a biostatistician in the [[Newcastle University]] Paediatric and Lifecourse Epidemiology Research Group (PLERG),<ref>{{cite web|title=Paediatric and Lifecourse Epidemiology Research Group (PLERG) group page|url=http://research.ncl.ac.uk/plerg/|publisher=Newcastle University|accessdate=2 December 2010}}</ref> researching a possible link between the occurrence of thyroid cancer in under-25s in NE England and radioiodine fallout exposure from [[Chernobyl]] in Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web|title=Geographical analysis of thyroid cancer in young people from northern England: evidence for a sustained excess in females in Cumbria|url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19179067/|publisher=PubMed|accessdate=2 December 2010}}</ref> The paper concludes that while the sustained rise in thyroid carcinoma in Cumbria could be consistent with the fallout patterns, the rising trends in Durham and Northumberland cannot be attributed to this exposure, and there may be other factors influencing the increase.

After her pseudonymous publishing career Belle was identified to be currently working as a research associate in developmental neurotoxicology and [[cancer epidemiology]] at the Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health (BIRCH), part of [[Bristol University]]'s Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information. Specifically she has been part of the EU-funded Henvinet consortium,<ref>{{cite web|title=HENVINET project page|url=http://henvinet.nilu.no/|publisher=Norwegian Institute for Air Research|accessdate=2 December 2010}}</ref> researching the policies for assessing the risks of developmental neuropathology from exposure to [[organophosphates]].<ref name="Scientist announces that she is call girl and blogger Belle de Jour"/><ref name="Newscientist1">
{{cite web
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|title=Belle de Jour: On science and prostitution
|date=20 November 2009
|work=[[New Scientist]]}}
</ref> She collaborated on several EU project policy documents regarding human developmental risks of environmental exposure to [[chlorpyrifos]],<ref>{{cite document |url=ftp://ftp.nilu.no/pub/HENVINET_Supplement/Submission%20Files/04_SAUNDERS/Articles/Chlorpyrifos%20paper%20for%20EH%20publication%20211210_FINAL.doc |title=Chlorpyrifos and neurodevelopmental effects: a literature review and expert elicitation on research and policy}}</ref> [[pthalates]],<ref>{{cite document |url=ftp://ftp.nilu.no/pub/HENVINET_Supplement/Submission%20Files/20_ZIMMER%20et%20al/Articles/Zimmer_manuscript.doc |title=Policy relevant results from an expert elicitation on the health risks of phthalates}}</ref> and [[DecaBDE]] and [[Hexabromocyclododecane|HBCD]].<ref>{{cite document |url=ftp://ftp.nilu.no/pub/HENVINET_Supplement/Submission%20Files/21_RAVNUM/Articles/Article21_decaBDE%20and%20HBCD_FirstDraft_2302.doc |title=Policy relevant Results from an Expert Elicitation on the Human Health Risks of Decabromo-diphenyl ether (decaBDE) and Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD)}}</ref>

In 2011 Brooke Magnanti published a statistical re-analysis criticising the ''Lilith Report on Lap Dancing and Striptease in the Borough of Camden'',<ref>[http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/poppy_03_lap_dancing_0109.pdf ''Lilith Report on Lap Dancing and Striptease in the Borough of Camden''] retrieved 2011-8-5</ref> a study which had found that sexual crimes have increased after the opening of four lap dancing venues in the area. Magnanti concluded in her paper that the study had significant methodological errors. Furthermore, according to Magnanti's paper, in the decade since lap dancing became legal Camden has seen fewer recorded rapes than other comparable boroughs of London, even those with fewer strip clubs or none.<ref name="Rape stats correction 2011">{{cite report|url=http://www.scribd.com/doc/47185652/Green-Paper-Camden-Lilith-rape-stats|title=The impact of adult entertainment on rape statistics in Camden: a reanalysis|accessdate=20 January 2011|last1=Magnanti |first1=Brooke }}</ref> Summaries of the findings were printed in several regional and national papers such as the ''Guardian''<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/22/pornography-jacqui-smith | title=Why doesn't Jacqui SMith take a relaxed view of pornography |work=Guardian |location=UK | date=22 February 2011 | accessdate=15 August 2011 | first=Kristina | last=Lloyd}}</ref> and the ''Camden New Journal''.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2011/feb/lilith-project-rape-lap-dance-link-%E2%80%98-flawed%E2%80%99-says-belle-du-jour-brooke-magnanti | title=Lilith Project rape-lap dance link is flawed says Brooke Magnanti | publisher=Camden New Journal | date=3 February 2011 | accessdate=6 February 2011 | location=London | first=Jamie | last=Welham}}</ref>

===Further books===
Magnanti is currently writing a nonfiction book, that will be published under her real name and is due for publication in early 2012.<ref>[http://www.thebookseller.com/news/london-book-fair-ones-watch.html ''London Book Fair: ones to watch'']. thebookseller.com, 2011-4-1 (retrieved 2012-2-10)</ref>

==''Secret Diary of a Call Girl''==
A television series loosely based on the first book was in development with [[Channel 4]] in the UK, but eventually aired on [[ITV2]] as ''[[Secret Diary of a Call Girl]]''. The first series aired from 27 September 2007 to 15 November 2007 starring [[Billie Piper]] as [[Hannah Baxter]] (Belle). It is now being shown in the US on [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]. Piper met Magnanti in the course of preparing for the role but maintained her pseudonymity.<ref>''Radio Times'', 23–29 January 2010</ref> A half-hour TV programme covering a meeting and conversation between the two was broadcast on [[ITV2]] on 25 January 2010. The second series commenced broadcasting in the UK on [[ITV2]] on 11 September 2008.

The third series began broadcasting in the UK and North America in January 2010. The fourth and final series started broadcasting in the UK on ITV2 in February 2011.

==Bibliography==
===Writing as Belle de Jour===
* {{cite book
|title=Belle's Best Bits
|author=Belle de Jour
|isbn=978-0-7538-2794-9
|publisher=[[Phoenix Books|Phoenix]]
|pages=368
|year=2010
}}

* {{cite book
|title=Belle De Jour's Guide to Men
|author=Belle de Jour
|isbn=978-1-4091-1384-3
|publisher=[[Orion Publishing Group|Orion]]
|pages=208
|year=2009
}}

* {{cite book
|title=Playing the Game
|author=Belle de Jour
|isbn=978-0-7538-2561-7
|publisher=[[Orion Publishing Group|Orion]]
|pages=368
|year=2009
}}

* {{cite book
|title=The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl
|author=Belle de Jour
|publisher=[[Weidenfeld & Nicolson]]
|isbn=978-0-297-85128-8
|pages=336
|year=2006
}}

* {{cite book
|title=Belle De Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl
|author=Belle de Jour
|publisher=[[Grand Central Publishing]]
|year=2006
|isbn=0-446-57725-1
|pages=304
}}

* {{cite book
|title=The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
|author=Belle de Jour
|publisher=[[Weidenfeld & Nicolson]]
|isbn=978-0-297-84782-3
|pages=294
|year=2005
}}

===Selected scientific works===

*{{cite journal
|first1=Brooke|last1=Magnanti
|first2=M. Tevfik|last2=Dorak
|first3=Louise|last3=Parker
|last4=Craft|first4=Alan W.
|last5=James|first5=Peter W.
|last6=McNally|first6=Richard J. Q.
|title=Sex-specific incidence and temporal trends in solid tumours in young people from Northern England, 1968–200
|journal=[[BMC Cancer]]
|volume= 8
|issue=89
|year=2008
|doi=10.1186/1471-2407-8-89
}}

*{{cite journal
|first1=Brooke|last1=Magnanti
|first2=M. Tevfik|last2=Dorak
|first3=Louise|last3=Parker
|last4=Craft|first4=Alan W.
|last5=James|first5=Peter W.
|last6=McNally|first6=Richard J. Q.
|title=Sex-specific patterns and trends in the incidence of hematologic malignancies in 0–24 year olds from Northern England, 1968–2005
|journal=[[haematologica]]
|volume=93
|issue=9
|pages=1438–1440
|year=2008
|doi=10.3324/haematol.12919
}}

*{{cite journal
|first1=Brooke|last1=Magnanti
|first2=M. Tevfik|last2=Dorak
|first3=Louise|last3=Parker
|last4=Craft|first4=Alan W.
|last5=James|first5=Peter W.
|last6=McNally|first6=Richard J. Q.
|title=Geographical analysis of thyroid cancer in young people from northern England: Evidence for a sustained excess in females in Cumbria
|journal=[[European Journal of Cancer]]
|volume=45
|issue=9
|pages=1624–1629
|year=2008
|doi=10.1016/j.ejca.2008.12.024
}}

*{{cite conference
|first1=Brooke|last1=Magnanti
|first2=A.|last2=[[Anthony Nicholls (physicist)|Nicholls]]
|first3=R.|last3=[[RasMol|Sayle]]
|title=Multi-Platform Skeletal Visualisation and Reproduction in Stereolithography
|conference=4th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage
|location=Brighton, United Kingdom
|publisher=Eurographics Association
|editor=David Arnold and Alan Chalmers and Franco Niccolucci
|pages=89-92
|year=2003
|doi=10.2312/VAST/VAST03/089-092
}}

== Notes ==
{{reflist|2}}

==References==
*[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6917495.ece "I’m Belle de Jour"]—Dr Brooke Magnanti reveals all in an interview with [[India Knight]]

== External links ==
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*[http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/ Belle de Jour: Diary of a London Call Girl]
*{{itv.com|id=secretdiary|title=''Secret Diary of a Call Girl''}}
*[http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/authors/author/belle-de-jour/ Belle de Jour's page], [[Conville and Walsh]] literary agents
*[http://www.ipadio.com/phlogs/WestminsterSkeptics/2010/06/08/Westminster-Skeptics-Brooke-Magnanti ''On the Construct of Identity''] – Talk by Brooke Magnanti at the Westminster Skeptics on 7 June 2010 (audio)
* [http://www.skyarts.co.uk/video/video-belle-de-jour-on-the-book-show1/ ''Belle de Jour on the Book Show''] – Interview of Brooke Magnanti at [[British Sky Broadcasting|Sky Arts]] (video)

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Brooke Magnanti
Brooke Magnanti, 7 June 2010
Brooke Magnanti, 7 June 2010
BornBrooke Magnanti
(1975-11-05) 5 November 1975 (age 48)[1]
OccupationResearch scientist, blogger, former call girl
Notable worksThe Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
Website
http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/

Brooke Magnanti (born 5 November 1975) is a research scientist, blogger, and writer, who, until her identity was revealed in November 2009, was known by the pen name Belle de Jour.[2] While completing her doctoral studies, between 2003 and 2004, Magnanti supplemented her income by working as a London call girl. Her diary, published as the anonymous blog Belle de Jour: Diary of a London Call Girl became increasingly popular, as speculation surrounded the identity of Belle de Jour, and whether the diary was real. Remaining anonymous, Magnanti went on to have her experiences published as The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl in 2005 and The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl in 2006. Her first two books were UK top 10 best-sellers in the nonfiction hardback and nonfiction paperback lists. In 2007, Belle's blogs and books were adapted into a television programme, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, starring Billie Piper as Belle, with the real name Hannah Baxter. In November 2009, reportedly fearing her real identity was about to come out, Magnanti revealed her real name and occupation as a child health scientist.

Personal life

Background and education

Magnanti grew up in Florida. She graduated from the private Clearwater Central Catholic High School, where she became a National Merit Scholar, in 1992, and entered university at the age of 16, going on to receive a B.S. in 1996 from Florida State University. She later studied for a master's degree in genetic epidemiology and Ph.D. in forensic science from the University of Sheffield in England. The Ph.D. thesis was submitted in 2003 and doctorate awarded in 2004.[3]

Identity

Pseudonym

Her pseudonym recalls the 1928 novel Belle de jour by Joseph Kessel and the 1967 film of the same name starring Catherine Deneuve, directed by Luis Buñuel. In French "Belle de Jour" is an expression translating literally as "beauty of [the] day," as opposed to "femme de nuit" or "belle de nuit," woman of the night (common euphemisms for prostitute).

The weblog Belle de Jour: Diary of a London call girl first appeared in October 2003[4] and won the Guardian newspaper's Best British Weblog 2003, in the second year of the award's existence. There was speculation in the media for several years as to the real identity of the author, whether Belle really was a call girl. Guesses as to who Belle was ranged from Rowan Pelling to Toby Young according to The Telegraph. Book contracts, copyright, and author payment were handled not under a real name but by the company Bizrealm Limited in order to maintain anonymity.[5] In 2004 The Sunday Times featured a front-page headline incorrectly identifying Sarah Champion as the author of the blog based on erroneous textual analysis by Don Foster.[6]

According to The Guardian a fellow British blogger guessed her identity in 2003 but kept it secret. He made a page on his blog containing the googlewhack of Belle de Jour and Brooke Magnanti that allowed him to see if anyone googled the two names. In 2009 he identified IP addresses originating from Associated Newspapers that had accessed the page at which point he contacted Magnanti to alert her.[7] Around the same time tabloid reporters had been escorted from the hospital where she worked for breaking into her office.[8]

Revelation of identity

On 15 November 2009, The Sunday Times revealed in an interview that the author's real name is Brooke Magnanti,[2] who was 34 years of age at the time.[9] The Guardian's Paul Gallagher described it as the revelation of "one of the best kept literary secrets of the decade".[10] The Daily Telegraph's Stephen Adams said it had been "the new millennium's equivalent of the 1980s' search for the golden hare".[9] Such was the nature of the secret, Magnanti's work colleagues did not know until one month before she went public, her publishers had been unaware of her true identity until the previous week and her parents found out on that weekend.[9][10][11] After signing her first book deal and starting writing articles for newspapers, only two other people were aware of her identity, her agent Patrick Walsh and her accountant, who handled the financial transactions via a shell corporation.[12][13] Magnanti commented that she had thought a former boyfriend was on the verge of outing her,[11][14] and later reported him to the police for threats and harassment against her and her partner.[15]

Writing on her blog on the day of the revelation, Magnanti stated:

It feels so much better on this side. Not to have to tell lies, hide things from the people I care about. To be able to defend what my experience of sex work is like to all the sceptics and doubters. Anonymity had a purpose then – it will always have a reason to exist, for writers whose work is too damaging or too controversial to put their names on[14]

A spokesperson for Bristol University stated, "This aspect of Dr Magnanti's past is not relevant to her current role at the university", while her publisher said, "It's a courageous decision for Belle de Jour to come forward with her true identity and we support her decision to do so".[14]

Since unveiling her identity as Belle de Jour, images of Brooke Magnanti appeared in several national newspapers.

Libel case

In June 2011 it was revealed that a man claiming to be an ex-boyfriend of Belle de Jour had filed a lawsuit against the Sunday Times for defamation caused by his mention in the paper. The £100k libel claim, filed by Flight Lieutenant Owen Morris[16] of RAF Lossiemouth, was based on two previous interviews with Magnanti in the paper and their versions published online. The claim was made that following her outing, he was widely identified as her former boyfriend and therefore mentions of his purported harassment in the articles had been damaging.[17]

Career

Diary of a London Call Girl

He: "So why do you do this?"
Me: "I'm not sure I have an answer to that."
"There must be something that you at least tell yourself."
"Well, perhaps I'm the sort of person apt to do something for no good reason other than I can't think of a reason not to."

The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl

Magnanti says she worked for 14 months as a £300-an-hour prostitute for a London escort agency from 2003, after submitting her PhD thesis.[9][10] She did so due to lack of funds before her viva voce at the University of Sheffield in 2003.[9]

She had previously been a science blogger using her real name and started blogging about sex work under a pseudonym.[10] Diary of a London Call Girl was voted Blog of the Year by The Guardian newspaper in 2003. Awards judge Bruce Sterling called it "Archly transgressive, anonymous hooker is definitely manipulating the blog medium, word by word, sentence by sentence far more effectively than any of her competitors ... She is in a league by herself as a blogger."[18] Shortly after receiving the award she signed with literary agency Conville and Walsh who negotiated a publishing deal with Weidenfeld & Nicholson.[19]

Reviews of the books compared her writing to the works of Martin Amis and Nick Hornby,[20] and she frequently quotes from the poems of Philip Larkin. Themes of the blog and books focus on isolation and personae. "Solitude as much as sex propels these books ... Belle's prickly disbelief in any lasting togetherness picks up an almost existential heft".[21] She writes in Playing the Game "it's not all about the sex – never has been – it's about the heart of darkness."[22]

Later work

Magnanti's publisher, Orion Books, printed her first two books as part of its "Non Fiction/Memoir" line.[23] Her third book was been classified as fiction and represents a fictional continuation from the first two. Her books have been published in the UK, US, Portugal, Spain, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, and China.

From November 2005 until May 2006, Magnanti contributed a regular column in The Sunday Telegraph.[24] Since her identity had been revealed she has written about UK libel laws and their effect on science for Comment Is Free.[25][26]

On 25 February 2010 Magnanti appeared on the BBC political affairs programme This Week to discuss the subject of sex education.[27] She is also an occasional guest on The Book Show broadcast on Sky Arts[28] and has spoken at a number of venues including the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival in conversation with India Knight.[29] She has also spoken on internet and forensic identity as part of the Bristol Festival of Ideas[30] and was a guest on the Stephen Fry 2011 series Fry's Planet Word.[31]

In 2011 Magnanti closed down her Belle de Jour blog and started to use the original url as her official website instead. She continued blogging however at her two new blogs The Sex Myth and The Gyst Of It. The former deals with social and political topics often related to sexuality, whereas the latter deals with all things related to yeast (=gyst), primarily recipes and food preparation. In addition she's a contributor to the online magazine Freedom in a Puritan Age.[32]

In 2012 Magnanti was selected as ambassador for the Inverness Whisky Festival.[33]

Scientist

Magnanti's PhD thesis, for which she studied within the University of Sheffield Department of Forensic Pathology, was entitled Macrobioinformatics: the application of informatics methods to records of human remains. It was submitted in September 2003 and the degree was awarded in 2004.[34] After moving to London and while blogging as Belle de Jour she also worked as a computer programmer in cheminformatics at InforSense.[35] She blogged about this career at Cosmas.[36]

Magnanti went on to work as a biostatistician in the Newcastle University Paediatric and Lifecourse Epidemiology Research Group (PLERG),[37] researching a possible link between the occurrence of thyroid cancer in under-25s in NE England and radioiodine fallout exposure from Chernobyl in Ukraine.[38] The paper concludes that while the sustained rise in thyroid carcinoma in Cumbria could be consistent with the fallout patterns, the rising trends in Durham and Northumberland cannot be attributed to this exposure, and there may be other factors influencing the increase.

After her pseudonymous publishing career Belle was identified to be currently working as a research associate in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology at the Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health (BIRCH), part of Bristol University's Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information. Specifically she has been part of the EU-funded Henvinet consortium,[39] researching the policies for assessing the risks of developmental neuropathology from exposure to organophosphates.[10][40] She collaborated on several EU project policy documents regarding human developmental risks of environmental exposure to chlorpyrifos,[41] pthalates,[42] and DecaBDE and HBCD.[43]

In 2011 Brooke Magnanti published a statistical re-analysis criticising the Lilith Report on Lap Dancing and Striptease in the Borough of Camden,[44] a study which had found that sexual crimes have increased after the opening of four lap dancing venues in the area. Magnanti concluded in her paper that the study had significant methodological errors. Furthermore, according to Magnanti's paper, in the decade since lap dancing became legal Camden has seen fewer recorded rapes than other comparable boroughs of London, even those with fewer strip clubs or none.[45] Summaries of the findings were printed in several regional and national papers such as the Guardian[46] and the Camden New Journal.[47]

Further books

Magnanti is currently writing a nonfiction book, that will be published under her real name and is due for publication in early 2012.[48]

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

A television series loosely based on the first book was in development with Channel 4 in the UK, but eventually aired on ITV2 as Secret Diary of a Call Girl. The first series aired from 27 September 2007 to 15 November 2007 starring Billie Piper as Hannah Baxter (Belle). It is now being shown in the US on Showtime. Piper met Magnanti in the course of preparing for the role but maintained her pseudonymity.[49] A half-hour TV programme covering a meeting and conversation between the two was broadcast on ITV2 on 25 January 2010. The second series commenced broadcasting in the UK on ITV2 on 11 September 2008.

The third series began broadcasting in the UK and North America in January 2010. The fourth and final series started broadcasting in the UK on ITV2 in February 2011.

Bibliography

Writing as Belle de Jour

  • Belle de Jour (2010). Belle's Best Bits. Phoenix. p. 368. ISBN 978-0-7538-2794-9.

Selected scientific works

  • Magnanti, Brooke; Dorak, M. Tevfik; Parker, Louise; Craft, Alan W.; James, Peter W.; McNally, Richard J. Q. (2008). "Sex-specific incidence and temporal trends in solid tumours in young people from Northern England, 1968–200". BMC Cancer. 8 (89). doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-89.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  • Magnanti, Brooke; Dorak, M. Tevfik; Parker, Louise; Craft, Alan W.; James, Peter W.; McNally, Richard J. Q. (2008). "Sex-specific patterns and trends in the incidence of hematologic malignancies in 0–24 year olds from Northern England, 1968–2005". haematologica. 93 (9): 1438–1440. doi:10.3324/haematol.12919.
  • Magnanti, Brooke; Dorak, M. Tevfik; Parker, Louise; Craft, Alan W.; James, Peter W.; McNally, Richard J. Q. (2008). "Geographical analysis of thyroid cancer in young people from northern England: Evidence for a sustained excess in females in Cumbria". European Journal of Cancer. 45 (9): 1624–1629. doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2008.12.024.
  • Magnanti, Brooke; Nicholls, A.; Sayle, R. (2003). David Arnold and Alan Chalmers and Franco Niccolucci (ed.). Multi-Platform Skeletal Visualisation and Reproduction in Stereolithography. 4th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage. Brighton, United Kingdom: Eurographics Association. pp. 89–92. doi:10.2312/VAST/VAST03/089-092.

Notes

  1. ^ Brooke Leigh Magnanti (2011). "The Gyst of It: Autumn Sweeties". Retrieved 24 November 2011.
  2. ^ a b India Knight (15 November 2009). "I'm Belle de Jour". The Sunday Times. London: Times Newspapers. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
  3. ^ Brooke Leigh Magnanti (2003). "Macrobioinformatics: the Application of Informatics Methods to Records of Human Remains". University of Sheffield. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
  4. ^ "Belle de Jour October 2003 archive". Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  5. ^ "Bizrealm Limited listing companies house archive". Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  6. ^ Champion, Sarah (21 March 2004). "I was branded a call-girl blogger". The Observer. UK. Retrieved 20 June 2006.
  7. ^ Addley, Esther (18 November 2009). "I guessed Belle de Jour's identity, blogger reveals". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 18 November 2009.
  8. ^ Magnanti, Brooke (28 March 2010). "Life without the mask of Belle de Jour". The Times. London: Times Newspapers. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
  9. ^ a b c d e Stephen Adams (15 November 2009). "Belle de Jour author unmask herself amid 'perfect storm' of feelings". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
  10. ^ a b c d e Gallagher, Paul (15 November 2009). "Scientist announces that she is call girl and blogger Belle de Jour". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
  11. ^ a b "Belle de Jour lifts her veil". CBC News. 15 November 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
  12. ^ Ryan Hagen: A Few Questions for Belle de Jour, Call Girl and Scientist – Freakonomics blog (accessed 21 November 2009)
  13. ^ Arifa Akbar (16 November 2009). "Exposed: The most intimate secret of erotic blogger". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2009.
  14. ^ a b c "Belle de Jour drops her anonymity". BBC. 15 November 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
  15. ^ Rayner, Gordon (15 December 2010). "Belle de Jour calls in police after ex-boyfriend's internet rant". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
  16. ^ "VICE LITTLE EARNER RAF officer sues for pounds 100,000".
  17. ^ Limbrick, Sarah (22 June 2011). "Belle de Jour ex in Sunday Times 100 k libel claim". The Press Gazette. London. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
  18. ^ Waldman, Simon (18 December 2003). "British Blog Awards 2003". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
  19. ^ "The Bookseller rights report brief article". Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  20. ^ Guest, Katy (21 January 2005). "A tomboy in stilettos". The Independent. London. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  21. ^ Tonkin, Boyd (10 November 2008). "Kiss & tell: The twilight world of tart-lit". The Independent. London. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  22. ^ "Diary of a London Call Girl". Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  23. ^ "The Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl". Orion Books. Retrieved 21 November 2007. [dead link]
  24. ^ "Belle de Jour – Diary of a London Call Girl". Retrieved 23 June 2008.
  25. ^ Magnanti, Brooke (11 March 2010). "Libel tourism is a public health risk". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  26. ^ Magnanti, Brooke (1 April 2010). "Simon Singh and the threat to science". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  27. ^ "The This Week Guest Gallery 2010". BBC News. undated. Retrieved 9 June 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  28. ^ "Belle de Jour on The Book Show". Retrieved 2 December 2010.
  29. ^ "Belle de Jour in conversation with India Knight". BBC News. 2 March 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
  30. ^ "Identity and Identification". Retrieved 2 December 2010.
  31. ^ "Spreading the Word".
  32. ^ http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/ (retrieved 2012-1-22)
  33. ^ http://news.stv.tv/scotland/302897-whisky-festival-appeals-to-trendy-audience/ (retrieved 2012-4-8)
  34. ^ "Macrobioinformatics: the application of informatics methods to records of human remains". British Library. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
  35. ^ "Wayback archive of www.eyesopen.com". OpenEye Scientific Software. Archived from the original on 7 September 2005. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  36. ^ "Wayback archive of Cosmas cheminformatics blog". Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  37. ^ "Paediatric and Lifecourse Epidemiology Research Group (PLERG) group page". Newcastle University. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
  38. ^ "Geographical analysis of thyroid cancer in young people from northern England: evidence for a sustained excess in females in Cumbria". PubMed. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
  39. ^ "HENVINET project page". Norwegian Institute for Air Research. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
  40. ^ Rowan Hooper (20 November 2009). "Belle de Jour: On science and prostitution". New Scientist.
  41. ^ "Chlorpyrifos and neurodevelopmental effects: a literature review and expert elicitation on research and policy" (Document). {{cite document}}: Cite document requires |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
  42. ^ "Policy relevant results from an expert elicitation on the health risks of phthalates" (Document). {{cite document}}: Cite document requires |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
  43. ^ "Policy relevant Results from an Expert Elicitation on the Human Health Risks of Decabromo-diphenyl ether (decaBDE) and Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD)" (Document). {{cite document}}: Cite document requires |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
  44. ^ Lilith Report on Lap Dancing and Striptease in the Borough of Camden retrieved 2011-8-5
  45. ^ Magnanti, Brooke. The impact of adult entertainment on rape statistics in Camden: a reanalysis (Report). Retrieved 20 January 2011.
  46. ^ Lloyd, Kristina (22 February 2011). "Why doesn't Jacqui SMith take a relaxed view of pornography". Guardian. UK. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
  47. ^ Welham, Jamie (3 February 2011). "Lilith Project rape-lap dance link is flawed says Brooke Magnanti". London: Camden New Journal. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  48. ^ London Book Fair: ones to watch. thebookseller.com, 2011-4-1 (retrieved 2012-2-10)
  49. ^ Radio Times, 23–29 January 2010

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