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Press review for The Decadent Handbook
"Much concern about the onset of blindness after Tuesday’s (7th November )launch party for The Decadent Handbook, produced by the former Erotic Review editrix Rowan Pelling.The dungeonesque club Hedges & Butler was a cross between the flea market in Rome and Purgatory. Filthy poets and a burlesque dancer(vigorously shaking her strategic tassles)wowed the gin-sodden throng. Pelling attacked the Daily Telegraph’s reviewer Duncan Fallowell, who criticised the Handbook as not being decadent enough.
'When I started on the Erotic Review, Duncan wrote two articles, which I did not print,' says Pelling.'They weren’t that erotic. It wasn’t because it was gay – we ran blindingly rude stuff about cottaging on Hampstead Heath, which had my colonels harrumphing.'
She adds:'Duncan called me ''as erotic as a darning mushroom'' – which is wonderful;. I might have it tattooed on my bottom'."