Tf you are of a sensitive disposition.

Tf you are of a sensitive disposition, please await away now, for I am about to discuss things of an altogether fruitier nature. A merciful introduction might be the preferable path for those of you who are reading this while peeking from one side your fingers, but, alas, when you go into a room and face a wall protected in crocheted vaginas, subtlety doesn't really come into into it.

I'm at the private view of the exhibition of finalists' work for the Erotic Awards, which features categories including Sex Worker, Campaigner, Innovation and Striptease Artist. The exhibition is being held in London's tiny Trolley Gallery (to 24 family eroticawards.co.uk) and the awards themselves took place last night.

The invitation point outs a naked woman wearing nothing yet nipple tassels, "flipping the bird" and grinning wholeheartedly. She's common of the first people I come together Her name is Lily Dumont and she is nominated in the Performance Artist category for her caricaturing act. Despite the scary picture, she's charming. "I do the more ballsy stuff" she crack a jokes before adding, "my mother is to a high degree proud! I do a fate of silly things. I've got a bit of flab and, for me it's meant to be funny"

We chat about her quality course (gender and women's studies) for one time before Julie Cook, the same of the curators of the exhibition, introduces me to another finalist: Jamie Robinson, graduate of the Royal association of Art, who is nominated in the Photographer category. His pictures point out to his Japanese wife in various states of undress: in the bath, sitting naked in a chair and a close-up of her hair overlayed in shampoo. "I'm not enduring my wife is pleased," admits Robinson. "I think she's a little embarrassed as these were private moments"

He does appear a little bewildered about the Awards: "I not ever thought my work was about eroticism... What am I getting myself into?" However, he is pleased to be included. Looking around the field at the pin-thin woman in a man's suit rubbing shoulders with a surgically enhanced in a non-existent dress, he says: "There are near interesting people. It's actually highly fun!" Then he leads me back in consequence of the rapidly expanding crowd to give me a pattern of his book, Aishiteru I delight in You (immprint).

by means of now, a TV is showing a pole-dancing routine and the bagels and ro are going down a treat. I take another anticipate at the nominated products that tamper with explained earlier. There's a tampon designed for sex workers that has no string and allows women to work any time of the month It's facing stiff competition in the Innovation category from the DrThom website (drthomcom) which exhibits anonymous STI testing.

garble is keen to stress that it's not all hard sex: the point of the awards is, after all, to raise stores and awareness for the charity Outsiders, which helps disabled the bulk of mankind Some of the nominees are being recognised for their social conscience, in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as www.bentvoices.org, nominated as best website for its work in providing support for gay disabled the public Then there's Spread, a magazine in the Publication category that is for, and by means of sex workers, featuring columns forward health and political matters. There are, however, any very risqu items on exhibit including "masturbation towels" showing sexual shows (Wednesday looks particularly challenging) and a Dutch painting of flying penises.

As I am about to leave, I start chatting to Alan ofhotheels.co.uk, a site that's nominated in the Fashion category. You can't miss Alan: tonight he's known as Elena, has flowing hair, is about six-five and fited in a slinky black number and killer heels that flash desponding disco lights. His partner, Elle is just as tall, and the three of us win on like a house upon fire as I tell them about a hen weekend I'm not upon to in the middle of the political division "You'll never come back alive," Elena owns me. "Have you seen Severance?" serviceable point. Perhaps I should swipe that oversize dildo as a self-defence weapon

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