Rowan Pelling is a journalist, broadcaster and deputy editor of Perspective Magazine. She writes regular articles for the Daily Telegraph, including features on the visual arts. She spent eight years editing The Erotic Review magazine and guest-curated Sotheby’s first two auctions of erotic art, Erotic: Passion & Desire (2017-18). She’s been a Man Booker Prize judge and has presented documentaries for Radio Four on kissing, procrastination, shoes, Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, and The Story of O.