Sarah Hedley

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Sarah Jane Hedley (born Newcastle 1973) is a British author and journalist specialising in sex and relationships. Since September 2004 she has worked as an editor at Scarlet magazine, Britain’s first erotic middle-shelf magazine for women, where she was nominated for the BSME New Editor of the Year Award. Her first book, Sex By Numbers, was published by Piatkus in 2006.

[edit] Career

Sarah began her career when she worked at Maxim magazine in 1996 and was soon promoted to Women’s Editor overseeing all sex and relationship features aimed at their male readers.

In August 2000 she was commissioned by The Sun, the UK’s best selling newspaper, to write a weekly column on sex and relationships. From there she was headhunted by Cosmopolitan magazine in the UK and became their Sex Editor in September 2002. At the same time she wrote a monthly column in Men's Fitness magazine in the US.

Today she is the agony aunt of The Sun’s weekly online Sex Surgery, the content editor of Amora, London’s new Academy of Sex and Relationships, and the writer, narrator and consulting director of Modern Loving, a sexual inspiration DVD series.

On screen, Sarah has appeared as a social commentator on shows including Richard & Judy, The Oprah Winfrey Show and the BBC News, and has featured as a TV agony aunt on several series including Dirty Laundry (Channel 4) and Fancy Me Island (Trouble). She is now the editor of "Scarlet" magazine.

[edit] List of works

• Sex by Numbers (2006)
• 1000 Books That Will Change Your Life (2007)