Millicent Binks

Millicent Binks is an English writer and performance artist. She wrote a sex column about her life in The London Evening Standard.[1]

Millicent Binks
Binks in a Q&A at Samsung KX
OccupationWriter, performance artist
Websitewww.millicentbinks.co.uk

Early years

Binks grew up in Suffolk, England. Her father is a nuclear physicist and her mother is a linguist.

Writing

When Binks first moved to London she enrolled on a Creative Writing degree which she dropped out of after three months to pursue a burlesque performance career, but kept writing for her own pleasure.

In April 2011, the London Evening Standard approached her to be their new sex columnist. Her writing style is tongue-in-cheek and humorous, whilst documenting her and her friends' sex lives in London regularly commenting on fashion and lingerie, with a readership of up to 2 million every week.[2] In October 2018 she was on the cover of The Sunday Times Magazine for a piece she wrote about chatting up men in different personae.[3]

Performance

Fascinated with the performance art and burlesque she came across in London, she decided to try it herself, combining her love of costume, dance and characterisation. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Costume Interpretation from Wimbledon College of Arts.[4] She performed her English Rose show at The Gentry de Paris Revue, who Binks is greatly influenced by.[5] She has performed all over Europe and had a monthly residency in Istanbul.[6] Binks has performed for British BAFTA Award-winning Artist Alison Jackson.[7]

References
  1. (2011.04.05) "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-11. Retrieved 2011-09-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle. Retrieved 2011.09.08
  2. (2011.04.19) "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-04-26. Retrieved 2011-09-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle. Retrieved 2011.09.08
  3. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sex-and-dating-in-2018-what-do-men-really-find-attractive-in-women-p2hgmgj79
  4. https://www.millicentbinks.co.uk
  5. runninginheels.co.uk Retrieved 2011.09.10
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-02. Retrieved 2011-09-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) thisislondon.co.uk Retrieved 2011.09.10
  7. https://www.millicentbinks.co.uk/performance
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