Nichi Hodgson
| Nichi Hodgson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 9, 1983 Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
| Residence | London |
| Education | University of York |
| Occupation | Journalist, Contributor, Author and Sex educator |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Website | nichihodgson |
Nichi Hodgson (born September 9, 1983) is a British sex journalist, broadcaster, and author. She was one of the first British journalists to court-report via Twitter, covering the 2012 obscenity trial, R v Peacock.
Born and raised in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Hodgson attended Wakefield Girls' High School, studied English at York University gaining First Class Honours, and undertook NCTJ training at Harlow College, Essex. Later she took unpaid internships at the BBC, New Statesman, and the Erotic Review, supporting herself with part-time work as a professional dominatrix, a situation she would later come to describe as a ‘Persephonoid pact’ while crediting it for helping her get over body dysmorphia. In 2017 she told the Sunday Times that, while she did not regret professional domination, the experience – and writing about it in her first book, Bound To You - temporarily ‘ruined’ her dating life. The one-time Men's Health Sexual Adventurer columnist, is now a discreet advocate of sex worker rights, self-describe as a ‘sexual freedom fighter’, by writing about the science of BDSM, or receiving sexual services at a Nevada brothel for Vice. She criticised a Tory MP who once euphemistically invited her to "tea", before telling her he couldn’t take her to the Buckingham Palace Garden Party because of her sex-positive journalism and adult industry work.
Hodgson contributes to Sky News on sex, relationships and gender issues, and occsionally the Sky Sunrise Paper Review. She has appeared on BBC World, BBC Radio 2 and 4. Her documentary, 'Can Porn Be Ethical?' was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015, and was a guest in an episode of Late Night Woman's Hour alongside Caitlin Moran in 2016.
In 2012, her home town paper, the Wakefield Express, responded to an article she had written for the Guardian, criticising Wakefield’s rhubarb festival. Hodgson compared the town's decline since its coalmines were closed in the 1980s, by sugesting that beyond the rhubarb, ‘you’ll struggle to find something else redeeming about this wilted Yorkshire town’.
Her first book, Bound To You, a BDSM memoir, was published by Hodder in 2012. Translated into Italian, Spanish and Polish, The Literary Review described it as ‘a welt-mark above the majority of books that have been marketed to the 50 Shades audience’. Her second book, The Curious History of Dating, was published by Little, Brown in January 2017, and described by the Law Gazette as 'Pacey, intelligent and authoritative account with bags of wit'. The Lady Magazine awarded it 5 stars upon review. '
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