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Learn more about the sex industry at a packed events programme at Arcola.

West Ham forced to deny that new home will be christened the Ann Summers Stadium.

We talk to Dr Heidi Hoefinger, co-organiser of a new film festival about the sex industry.

You’ll be moist with anticipation as we count down the capital’s lewdest exhibits.

And that’s just for starters. A curious run of events at Treadwells bookshop also includes Ethical Psychic Vampirism and pagan BDSM.

  In its previous days as a gentleman’s lavatory, CellarDoor at Zero Aldwych (is there a cooler London address?) was allegedly frequented by Wilde, Orton and Gielgud. Now the place is crammed with about thirty office worker types drinking coffee cup cocktails and munching popcorn …

Nearly half a million new cases of STIs were reported last year in London. We hoped this could indicate that the NHS’s huge campaign to demystify the

Bishopsgate Institute brightens up the damp squib of our summer with promise of a smoky autumn programme of edification through vice, violence, sauce and corruption. Bent coppers, fiddling MPs and reckless bankers all get a going over whilst the 1950s are probed for sexiness pre-swinging …

Erotica: we went so you didn’t have to spend £30 to do likewise. Trade fairs are never sexy and Erotica was anything but. However, those trying on corsets, buzzing sex toys in their palms, rubbing lube between their fingers, testing the electronic pulses of the …

As Fringe fever broke in an excitable sweat across our brows yesterday evening we prepared to tackle the first night in style, lining up 4 shows back to back – a theatre, comedy and cabaret sandwich all washed down with booze. The joy of a …