30th Sexual Freedom Awards Finalists, 2026
These are the current Finalists for the 30th Sexual Freedom Awards. More to come so check back!
The Sexual Freedom Awards - honouring practitioners, performers and activists who promote sexually positive attitudes – will be held in London, U.K. on Sunday 10th May, 2026. These are uniquely independent and inclusive international Awards – with their famous, hand-carved, ' golden flying cock' trophy. Performer and Stripper finalists showcase their acts during the Awards ceremony.
A long-list for each Award category is compiled from nominations from the public and a short-list, usually of 3 Finalists per category, is selected by a panel of expert judges who announce winners on the night. We salute all nominees & Finalists!
All Finalists remain featured as a tribute their outstanding contributions to the myriad worlds of sexual freedom and expression.
Activist of the Year
Laura Baillie WINNER!
Laura Baillie is the Political Officer for Scotland for Decrim, a grassroots organisation dedicated to fighting for the full decriminalisation of sex work in Scotland. A force to be reckoned with and a true advocate for sex workers, she led the fight against Ash Regan’s Nordic Model Bill - a law that would criminalise the purchase of sex and harm sex workers. In February of this year it was announced that the Bill was defeated.
Despite countless attacks by the opposition, Laura’s focus has always remained on the sex workers she advocates and deeply cares for. As well as this, she is a board member for National Ugly Mugs, and will soon commence her PhD at the University of Glasgow.
When she isn’t the busiest woman alive, she can be found attending the gigs of various pop divas, wild swimming, and she has never found a walking tour she didn’t like.
🌐 Insta @laurabaillie92 : : @scotland4decrim
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Lewis Oakley
Lewis Oakley is a bisexual activist, author, and broadcaster.
He hosts the Generation Uncharted podcast, co-hosts Bisexual Brunch, and writes the advice column Ask a Bi Dad. He is also the author of Bisexuality: The Basics.
You can find him online at @lewyoaks
🌐 Instagram @lewyoaks
Ally of the Year
Beth Jackson WINNER!
Beth is co-owner of SW Friendly Accountants, or rather Sex Worker Friendly Accountants if censorship wasn't what it is. They do what the name says - they are accountants who help every small business regardless of the industry. Sex workers face regular discrimination and get blocked from professional services constantly; banks, I’m looking at you. As someone with a personal knowledge of sex work it felt like a no-brainer to provide a safe space for sex workers to support them running their small businesses and taking care of the boring and sometimes scary world of tax.
2 Sisters Accounting has been running over 8 years helping small businesses and that has given Beth the freedom to launch the sister brand SW Friendly Accountants, providing accounting support to Sex Workers without judgement. It has meant she can provide free webinars, workshops and sponsor events in the community making knowledge to support the small business side of Sex Work accessible to as many people as possible.
🌐 swfriendlyaccountants.co.uk : : Insta @swfriendaccountant
Charlotte Heti
Charlotte Heti is best known as a key member of the Torture Garden team, having been part of the community for over 25 years and serving as a Director for the past seven. She is a recognised figure within the London and international fetish and alternative nightlife scene, known for creating vibrant, inclusive spaces where creativity, expression and community thrive.
As a Director of Torture Garden and co-founder of Le Boutique Bazaar and The Sunday Slick, Charlotte creates environments where people can safely explore their sexuality and express themselves freely. Her events are rooted in respect, consent and non-judgement, encouraging empowerment and connection. She understands these spaces can be both an entry point for newcomers and a home for long-time community members, and works to evolve them to support both. She also employs a wide range of performers, DJs and staff, championing diverse talent and fair pay.
Charlotte is passionate about curating high-quality events that foster community, celebrate identity and create safe, welcoming spaces for people to be themselves.
🌐 Insta @charlotteheti : : X @charlotteheti : : torturegarden.com
Mathilde Friis
Mathilde Friis is an independent curator and PhD candidate whose work sits at the intersection of art, gender studies, and anthropology. She has curated exhibitions and public programmes at Somerset House, HEK, and the ICA, alongside independent galleries.
Mathilde's practice-led PhD in curatorial practice at Northumbria University, Newcastle, focuses on the artistic and creative practices of sex working communities. Recent projects include Working Girls! at Gallery 46 and Purity & Danger at Guts Gallery (2024). Positioning curating itself as a research methodology, her project draws on situated, embodied, and relational approaches that foreground care, activism, and collaboration.
Rooted in broader interests in gender and sexualities within visual culture, Mathilde's work makes a case for institutional recognition and support of sex workers as active shapers of their own stories and futures. Her practice bridges academic research and public-facing curatorial work, bringing critical and community-centred perspectives to cultural institutions and independent spaces.
Creator of the Year
Lucy Huxley WINNER!
Lucy Huxley is an escort, content creator, and podcast host living in Berlin, Germany.
Her online work strikes a balance between sharing juicy stories from her 10 years in the sex industry, and sharing educational and activist content advocating for sex worker rights.
She hosts a podcast, “The Whore’s Bedroom”, where she dives deeper into her personal experiences and also interviews guests from different areas of the sex industry.
Instagram: @lucyhuxleyx TikTok: @lucyhuxleyxxx
Poppy Scarlett
Poppy Scarlett is a professional over-sharer and multi-hyphenate-sex-person. She is a certified Sex and Relationships Coach, along with creating content about non-monogamy under the name @polyampoppy. On social media she bares all to help others shed shame and embrace pleasure.
Through her playful workshops and one-on-one coaching sessions, Poppy educates on sex, non-monogamy, kink and intimacy and regularly appears as a guest expert on podcasts and panels.
A proudly kinky, queer, and polyamorous woman, Poppy also runs the much-loved non-monogamous board game social, NON-MONOPOLY in London.
Dr. Tara
Dr. Tara is a certified sexologist, tenured professor of relational and sexual communication, author, award-winning researcher, and TV personality. As a prominent sex and relationship expert, her work can be seen all over the media (KTLA news, CBS, Fox, Refinery29, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, etc.) and on social media platforms and podcast "Luvbites" where she has cultivated over 2.3 million followers. This led Paper Magazine to coin her as 'The Internet's Resident Sexpert.' Dr. Tara is the Sexpert and host of UK's popular TV show 'Celebs Go Dating' and gives advice in her monthly column on Women's Health Magazine called 'Sexplore with Dr. Tara.' Her new book, How Do You Like It? A Guide for Getting What You Want (in Bed), offers a fresh, research-backed approach to understanding personal pleasure, communicating desires, and cultivating deeply satisfying sexual experiences. The book is quickly becoming a go-to resource for readers seeking practical, compassionate, and confidence-building guidance.
🌐 Instagram @luvbites.co
Event of the Year
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Magic Pxssy Cabaret
Magic Pxssy Cabaret is a community-driven fundraising showcase created in honour of internationally recognised pole artist Kitty Velour, during a time when she was left unable to perform due to severe illness. Known for her powerful presence, global influence, and electrifying performances, Kitty has inspired countless dancers - making her sudden loss of mobility and income deeply felt across the community.
In response, this event was built as an act of love, solidarity, and collective care. Bringing together a diverse lineup of performers, the show was designed to “bring the stage to Kitty” when she could no longer stand on it herself. Each act embodied themes of healing, strength, and resilience, creating an emotionally charged and deeply supportive atmosphere.
The event united the pole, burlesque, and alternative performance communities, raising over £5,000 to support Kitty’s recovery and helping to ease the financial and emotional strain caused by months of cancelled work.
More than a performance, Magic Pxssy Cabaret became a symbol of compassion in action - demonstrating the power of community to uplift one of its own, and highlighting the profound empathy, generosity, and connection that exists within the pole world.
🌐 Instagram @magicpxssycabaret
Quintimacy WINNER!
Beck Thom (they/them) made up the job title ‘Queer Intimacy Facilitator’ 10 years ago when creating the first unapologetically queer and trans-centred, consent-based and trauma-informed, Quintimacy workshops.
Beck originally trained in Sexological Bodywork® and felt called to queer this modality even more! And it could not get more queer without deeply embracing intersectionality, including disability and neurodivergence. Quintimacy has created a kind and sensitive space for all forms of queer intimacy; community connection as well as hot play!
Alongside other queer and trans facilitators from the UK and Europe, Beck created a range of signature workshops starting with Level 1, cultivating embodied consent, gender-freeing and -affirming ways of being and building collective consent culture. Level 2 invites deeper explorations of power, stronger sensation, and our erotic self/ves. The latest evolution is Quintimacy’s Playground, a workshop and play party, for Quintimacy queers to meet and put the learnings into practice!
Beck is proud to be a Finalist, on behalf of the hundreds of queer and trans adults who have attended Quintimacy events. And the dedicated co-facilitators and volunteer assistants who show up to hold a unique and radical space where queers make transformative, healing and hot things happen for other queers.
🌐 Facebook @quintimacyuk : : Instagram @quintimacyuk
SX Festival
SX Festival & Expo is the younger sibling of the established SX Tech Conference, launched in 2019 and proudly produced by SX Tech Europe in Berlin.
SX Festival is a celebration of modern and contemporary kink culture at the intersection of innovation, technology, business, and modern media and arts. The multidisciplinary event brings together content creators, kinksters, industry professionals, media voices, futurists, technologists, nerds, and artists under one roof, creating a space where creativity, curiosity, and bold ideas collide.
The festival also hosts the SXMA Awards, recognizing the most daring and innovative marketing tools and campaigns shaping the future of the adult industry. The awards celebrate design, forward-thinking marketing, and creative storytelling that challenge conventions and push the sector forward.
This year, SX Festival & Expo will take place in Berlin on June 26–28, bringing together an international community to explore the future of sexuality, culture, technology, and creative expression.
Performer of the Year
Bi Curious George
Once described by Graham Norton as "energetic and charming" and by The Spectator as "a chap, or maybe not a chap", Bi-curious George is an award winning drag king whose work centres around queer ecology. Through drag, comedy and theatre he shatters the heteronormative lens through which we view the natural world and empowers people to reframe their identities and their relationships to ‘nature’.
Their 5 star solo show, Queer Planet, has delighted audiences all over the UK including the Southbank Centre, Soho Theatre, Kew Gardens, the Oxford Natural History Museum, Nottingham Playhouse and the Hull Truck Theatre. Their second show, Snail Trail, will be touring museums and ecology centres in Spring 2026 before heading to The Pleasance for the full run of the Edinburgh Fringe.
George is also a producer in the London cabaret scene, specialising in fundraisers and politically engaged community events. He produces the regular, paid, queer open mic night, 'Free Range' which has been running for over two years and recently transferred to its new home at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.
🌐 Instagram @bi.curious.george_drag
Jay they stallion WINNER!
Jay they stallion is performer, speaker, and workshop facilitator . An icon in the London queer-nightlife scene and beyond they can be found wooing audiences across Europe from legendary clubs, like Glitter Box Ibiza to underground dyke events and the bar tops across the Dalston Kingsland strip. Their work in the last 4 years means you’ll be hard-pressed to find a lesbian event that hasn’t booked Jaytheystallion.
Jay is the founder of Stretch and Release, a platform which curates workshops focusing on using Somatic healing to build intimacy with the self and reconnection with our bodies after violence and trauma.
Jay has partnered with organisations like uk Black pride, Camp Trans, and qtiBpoc creatives to facilitate workshops which directly benefit their communities by integrating somatics, generational healing and guiding others towards embodiment.
Their performance for this award is an ode to Jays own relationship with sensuality and eroticism and comes from a raw place of desire and releasing of shame. This piece has been staple in dyke nightlife in London and has been performed across dyke events throughout Europe and regularly in London since 2022.
🌐 Instagram @Jaytheystallion
Kate mcmahon
TS Daemon
Ts Dæmon is an artist and performer based in Scotland with a multidisciplinary practice comprising performance, film and immersive technologies.
They combine disciplines in wet-dreamlike visions typically centred around original music & collaboration. Founder & co-producer of KIN.X, a performance space, party & creative collective for and by trans*, sw’r & qtipoc community in Scotland.
Their work interrogates patriarchal systems of representation, desire, masculinity, and embodiment through physical and fantastical world-building.
🌐 Instagram @shrekx666
Podcast of the Year
Body of Work WINNER!
The Sexquisite Podcast was founded in response to the rise of “manosphere” podcasts, where sex workers are frequently invited on to be mocked and ridiculed. The Sexquisite podcast centres sex workers telling their own stories, interviewed by a sex worker, reclaiming their narratives and building an archive within an increasingly hostile media landscape.
At a time of growing digital censorship, the platform has played a pivotal role in documenting sex worker perspectives, creating a cultural record that resists erasure. In November 2025, the podcast, alongside the wider Sexquisite ecosystem, was removed from Instagram as part of a broader wave of platform suppression. In response, a media campaign was launched to reinstate access, alongside behind the scenes political organising with Decrim Now challenging the implications of the Online Safety Act.
Following reinstatement, the podcast was reimagined as Body of Work, a broader, sex positive platform with the same core mission. The rebrand reflects both an expansion of scope and a strategic response to ongoing censorship, while also enabling sex workers who are not publicly out to participate more safely. While approximately 95% of guests will remain sex workers, Body of Work continues to centre lived experience, platform underrepresented voices, and impact meaningful change.
🌐 Instagram @bodyofwork.pod
Crude
CRUDE is a radically honest podcast where love, sex, bodies, and relationships are mercilessly deconstructed through lived experience and the perspectives of others. Slutty academics Frank and Misty record from Berlin and from London, Effie is an activist, sex worker, and avid partygoer.
Together they explore the realities of modern relationships, sexual self-awareness, and kink in liberal cities in the 21st century. Immersed in sex-positive scenes across Europe, the hosts date, meet, and learn from a wide range of fascinating people whose experiences shape the conversation.
Episodes dive into many thought-provoking topics, including gangbangs, porn, neurodiversity, polyamory, scat, consensual non-consent (CNC), zoophilia, and more. As kink increasingly influences mainstream attitudes toward sex and relationships, CRUDE offers listeners an entertaining and thoughtful exploration of desire, identity, and the situationships that follow.
🌐 Instagram @crude_podcast
The Padded Cell
The Padded Cell Podcast effortlessly weaves the taboo subject of BDSM and kink alongside anything that falls in the categories of 'The strange, bizarre, the sexy and the outrageous'. Sex positive, body positive and kink positive, our queer hosting team bring facts, fun and a genuine passion that is addictive.
The audience and co-hosts never know what they are going to get from week to week, meaning that we organically share experiences, facts and weirdness, with authentic reactions. We’ve been delivering weekly episodes and fortnightly live episodes for 2 ½ years, where our audience can interact as we record, getting involved in conversation, sharing experiences and building friendships with other listeners right across the world.
The podcast has evolved into a show that people look forward to, creating a worldwide community of who we call ‘Deviants’. It has an engaging format, with twists and turns that keep the listener guessing until the end. Our podcast crosses boundaries, explodes some taboos and covers the corners of kink that other podcasts simply aren't equipped to challenge, as they don't have a Scouse Dominatrix at the helm! Someone who has worked in the LGBTQ+ and BDSM community for 21 years.
🌐 thepaddedcellpodcast.co.uk : : Facebook @thepaddedcellpodcast : : Instagram @thepaddedcell_podcast : : Youtube @thepaddedcellpodcast
Product of the Year
HOWL Water-based CBD Lube WINNER!
HOWL is a culture-driven sexual wellness brand born out of LGBTQ+ nightlife.
They make award-winning lube and host some of London's biggest queer raves.
They are on a mission to tear down shame by putting pleasure in the public sphere unapologetically.
🌐 howlworldwide.com : : Instagram @howlworldwide
Pxssy Powr Museum Doll-Ar$
This creative business transforms iconic performance culture into collectible art through handcrafted, customised dolls inspired by burlesque and pole artistry. What began as a passion project—creating bold, sensual dolls as tributes to admired performers—quickly evolved into an internationally recognised creative venture.
Each piece is individually designed, styled, and brought to life with statement heels, intricate costumes, and character-driven storytelling, celebrating the confidence, glamour, and individuality of the performers who inspire them. The accompanying video content adds another layer of artistry, placing the dolls in playful, visually striking performance settings that capture the spirit of cabaret and pole culture.
The work resonated deeply within the community, leading to over 100 custom commissions delivered worldwide. Performers began requesting their own personalised dolls—miniature reflections of their stage personas—turning the project into both a creative service and a form of artistic recognition.Notably, a custom piece was created for renowned burlesque artist Frankie Fictitious, highlighting the growing reach and cultural relevance of the work.Blending craftsmanship, fandom, and performance art, this business celebrates performers in a fresh, imaginative way—transforming admiration into tangible, empowering creations that honour the artistry and impact of the burlesque and pole community.
🌐 Instagram @pxssypowrmuseum
Sex Worker of the Year
Alice Little
Alice Little is an Irish-American intimacy educator, legal sex worker and legal sex worker advocate, and influencer. With a focus on intimacy, companionship, and sex-positive education, she is best known for her work in Nevada’s legal brothel system. She has produced educational content, authored articles and opinion pieces for major outlets, and developed an online platform spanning across various social media platforms centered on open and informed conversations about exploring sexuality, enhancing intimacy, and improving human connection.
Alice has spent more than a decade demanding more rights, protections, and better conditions for sex workers. In addition to activism, she has expanded on her role as a public educator and speaker through writing syndicated opinion pieces, participating as a guest on podcasts, and producing online content for multiple platforms. Currently, Alice balances her time as a legal sex worker, advocate, and enjoys a personal life rooted in sustainable farming, travel, and community.
Jane Grey WINNER!
Jane Grey is an international dominatrix, BDSM educator, founder, and creative director redefining the intersection of power, intimacy, and contemporary art. She is the founder of Scene & Unscene, a series of sold-out kink parties for the discerning, blending art installations with play and connection. Jane recently partnered with global agency WMH&I (Fortnum & Mason, Coco de Mer, Absolut) to launch her forthcoming luxury brand, Jane Grey. Through experiences, education and thoughtfully crafted tools, the brand draws on lived experience within the world of power dynamics to bring a new standard to contemporary kink.
A panellist, speaker, and workshop presenter, Jane has appeared at Body Movements Festival (in association with Resident Advisor), Joyride, Slut Social, What Does Not, Kink in the Archive, and Anatomie Studio. Her work and commentary have been featured including Marie Claire, Dazed, and WIRED, as well as podcasts such as Crude and #teakink with Eva Oh.
At the heart of Jane’s ethos is the belief that play in all its forms is a fundamental aspect of human expression and happiness. She works to legitimise, destigmatise, and demystify kink and sex work, and bridge the worlds of acting and kink. Jane trained as an actor at the Manchester School of Theatre and is based in London.
🌐 Instagram @thejane_grey : : X @the_janegrey : : janegrey.world
Saurora Grace
Saurora Grace is a spicy Sexologist, Sex worker, and Dominatrix working with real bodies and real needs, especially disabled people often excluded from conversations around sex. She’s an activist for disabled people’s sexual rights, pushing for inclusion, autonomy, and genuine representation in every space.
Her work is VERY hands on and client led. She offers intimate sessions that can include touch, sensual exploration, erotic bodywork, conversation, and guidance. It’s about meeting people where they are, going at their pace, and creating something safe, respectful, and deeply human.
She also hosts workshops on sexuality, embodiment, confidence, and kink, including BDSM education, creating spaces where people can explore desire safely, ask questions without shame, and understand power, consent, and pleasure in real depth.
Alongside sex work, she brings her sexology training into practice, helping people unpick shame, reconnect with their bodies, and expand their understanding of desire, boundaries, and intimacy.
Her work sits at the intersection of pleasure, politics, and liberation, challenging who gets access to sex, care, and touch, and why. She is committed to making sexuality more honest, more inclusive, and more free.
As seen in Closer Mag & The Sun.
🌐 Instagram @Saurorasoull : : TikTok @SpicySaurora : : sauroragrace.com : : spicysaurora.com
Somatic Sexologist of the Year
Anne Linde
Anna Linde, MSc, is a Sexologist and Dance and Movement Therapist whose work bridges Embodied Wisdom, nervous system regulation, and Somatic Healing. She is also a Certified Sex Coach (WASC) who integrates pleasure, playfulness, and trauma-informed care as pathways toward sexual liberation and healing.
Alongside her clinical work, Anna is a passionate educator who internationally teaches future sexologists in integrating spirituality and decolonized perspectives into their professional practice. Her teaching encourages practitioners to approach sexuality through a lens of embodiment, cultural awareness, and relational ethics.
Anna is engaged in research that amplifies underrepresented voices in the field of Sexual Health. Her most recent research and article centers international adoptees' lived experiences of sexual health -an area that has historically received almost no scholarly attention- and is among the first of its kind.
Through her therapeutic practice, teaching, and research, Anna contributes to expanding the field of sexology toward more inclusive, embodied, and conscious integration of the Erotic Self.
🌐 Instagram @theadoptedsexologist : : Facebook @anna.linde.125
captain snowdon WINNER!
Liam “captain” Snowdon is a Somatic Sexologist, Gender Pleasure Activist, Queer/Erotic Death Worker, and poet. They are the founder of SPARC (The Sex Positive Art and Recreation Centre) on the occupied Lekwungen territories colonially known as Victoria, BC, Canada. For three decades, Captain has supported sex educators and sex workers to bring themselves and their own communities to the forefront. Captain taught Sexological Bodywork® at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco for many years before co-creating the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education in Canada with greater focus on consent, radical gender pleasure, embodied explorations of decolonisation and racial justice. In 2018, Captain launched Convive, an online Mindful Erotic Practice space.
Their journeys with learning disabilities, gender, queerness, causing and experiencing harm, privilege and oppression continue to inform Captain's ever-changing practice. Captain loves being a genderqueerdo, radical faery, transfaggot practicing earth magic and being in love with the ocean. They have been co-creating sex workshops, events and outreach since 1997. Some of their favourite titles were: 'How to Fuck a Transguy”, "UP Yours! Anal Pleasure for yourself and others", and "Hard Embodiment Tools for Tops and Doms”. Captain is also the author of the workbook, Queer Dying.
Jenny Keane
Jenny Keane is a somatic sexologist and educator focused on making adult sex education part of everyday conversation. Blending practical sex education with somatic practices and her signature Irish humour, her online workshops grew rapidly during lockdown, supporting thousands of people in understanding their bodies and pleasure. At one point, her blowjob workshop caused a national cucumber shortage, and since then, she has taught over 200,000 people worldwide.
In 2023, Jenny created an interactive stage show combining sex education, comedy, and experiential learning. The show has since sold out theatres across Ireland, reflecting a growing appetite for open, shame-free conversations about sex.
Jenny is passionate about making adult sex education mainstream and became the first sex educator to hold a regular segment on Irish morning television, bringing shame-free conversations about sex into living rooms. She writes a monthly column for The Sunday Times and is the founder of Oh! Moment, a sexual wellness brand designed to help people take pleasure into their own hands, literally and figuratively.
Her work aims to make sex education simple, fun and unashamedly normal, helping adults build confidence, skills, communication, and connection with themselves and their partners.
🌐 Instagram @hellojennykeane : : TikTok @hellojennykeane : : https://www.oh-moment.com
Stripper of the Year
Jessica Risque WINNER!
Jessica Risque (she/they) is a loud mouthed queer powerhouse who invites you into their world of seductive allure, where sleazy sensuality meets rebellion. A vet stripper, performer, dominatrix and activist with a face card that crumbles the masses. They are fiercely vocal and unapologetically political. They have advocated for Sex worker rights throughout their career as part of Bristol Sex Worker Collective who work tirelessly to change stigma around workers, champion the voices of those who need it and overturn harmful regulations.
Known for curating sex worker-only spaces and leading transformative workshops that celebrate self-expression, feminine rage, gender-bending queer-ness, neurodivergence, and the beauty of breaking the norms. Over the past few years they have turned their creative passion into event organizing bringing to Bristol the first Co-Op Pop-up Strip event in the city and Co-produces sex worker pride events with Sexquisite.
Other highlights in their career have been speaking at the International Women's Day March in the Sex Worker block to over 5000 people. Helping campaign against the nil cap in Bristol (and winning), debuting workers rights live on Jeremey Vine and working with Alex Project/Spectra to help educate workers on Spicy Health.
🌐 Instagram @jessica_risque
Serena Serpentina
Trained in theatre and shaped by her work in the strip club, on cam, and in the arts, Serena weaves narrative and seduction into every act.
A spiritually led force, her performances are immersive, raw, and unforgettable. Where storytelling meets striptease with unapologetic power.
As a Bisexual Black bombshell, her performances have featured at Hot and Bothered, The Cocoa Butter Club, BiPride, and Sexquisite.
🌐 Instagram @Serenaserpentina
Victoria Rose
Victoria Rose is a proud striptease artist, burlesque performer, producer and stripper. Gracing stages and clubs since 2017, she has always used her strip club experience to influence her burlesque and striptease as it molded her into the performer and stripper she is today. Victoria has performed and worked clubs all over the world including Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, UK and New York City. She was voted no.20 most influential performer of 2025.
Victoria was one of the co-founders of Cybertease, a current resident performer at Sexquisite and produces the The Great British Striptease which was created to bring both stripper and burlesque communities together and celebrate their heavily intertwined history. She is also currently researching British striptease and stripper history pre 1980 to give the artform the recognition it deserves within the arts.
She is an activist within the sex worker community and educates others on striptease history ensuring stripper representation within the burlesque industry is seen and respected.
Credits include: The Great British Striptease 2023-present, Sexquisite 2020-present, Sexhibition 2025, Cybertease 2020-2024, ELSC, Brazilian Wax, Mighty Hoopla, Secret Garden Party, Latitude.
Writer of the Year
Beth Ashley WINNER!
Beth Ashley is a sex and relationships journalist covering everything from dangerous drop-shipped sex toys to sex worker rights and the politics of friendships. In 2024, she published a book on sex shame with Penguin Random House, the first Young Adult non-fiction exploring slutshaming, called Sluts: The Truth about Sex Shame and What We Can Do to Fight It. It has since been translated in German.
Her work appears in a range of UK outlets including Mashable, Glamour, Dazed, Cosmo, Stylist, Vice, i-D, Refinery29, The Face, Vogue, Women's Health, The Guardian, the i Paper, The Independent, The Metro and more. Alongside written features, she has worked in investigative journalism for the BBC, Channel Four and ITV, and produced video journalism for social media, documentaries, and podcasts. This helps bring more journalism to wider, younger audiences in accessible and engaging formats.
🌐 bethashleywriter.co.uk : : Instagram @bethashleywriter
Hannah Honey
Hannah Honey is a UK Sex Writer with 5 years of experience exploring the intersection between sex, body positivity, mental health, and feminism. She has worked with OurGuiltyPleasures, Sensuali, WhippleTickle, FrolicMe Ethical Porn, Dream and Drive Lingerie, and more. Often drawing from personal experiences, her work covers politicized sexualities online, Ozempic culture, sex after trauma, and inclusive sexual health.
Alongside articles and erotica, Hannah develops introductory guides and facilitates workshops, such as ‘Your First Time at a Sex Party’, ‘Intro to Erotica’, and ‘How to Have Feminist Sex’ presented at the National Sexpression Conference in Leeds. She has volunteered for The Linacre Institute, a charity helping Northern state-educated students access competitive universities, teaching on sexuality in contemporary literature. She also sits on the International Youth Council for Gender Equality, researching the effects of AI for women online.
Globally, Hannah has worked for Sexfluent, Canada’s leading queer youth sexual health resource by the Canadian Association for AIDS Research, as well as Canadian toy giant Babeland, and famous Toronto club Birdhaus. She also performs at Cake Cabaret, a queer Toronto staple for burlesque, dance, and drag, and credits her work to queer people, sex workers, and anyone brave enough to live unconventionally.
🌐 Instagram @byhannahhoney : : Linktree @byhannahhoney : : Portfolio
Nicolle Hodges
A pioneering voice in the therapeutic potential of BDSM, Nicolle “Double L” is the writer behind the Substack and forthcoming book Both Sides of the Slash. Drawing on seven years as a lifestyle dominatrix, she has immersed herself in the world to explore power from every angle, seeking to elevate voices across the field and championing BDSM as healing.
As a journalist and sexual freedom philosopher, she investigates the evolving cultural influences of taboo and desire. To her, this means deconstructing the "why" behind what turns us on and advocating for a world where sexual expression is recognized as a fundamental human right and a path to self-actualization.
Through her educator role and her immersive writing, she remains dedicated to the "Both Sides" philosophy, ensures stories from varied perspectives are told with nuance, intellect, and heart.
🌐 Instagram @nicolledoublel : : Substack Both Sides of the Slash
Outsiders Volunteer of the Year awards
Tulloch Kempe
We are honored to present the 2026 Outsiders Trophy to Tulloch, celebrating 35 years of unwavering commitment to our community.
A cornerstone of the Outsiders Trust from its early years, Tulloch’s legacy includes serving as Director, as Chair of the Erotic Awards, and as current Stage Manager of the Sexual Freedom Awards. Beyond these roles, Tulloch has spent 15 years at Glastonbury Festival managing the accessibility wellbeing tent, providing vital support to disabled attendees and their carers.
This award recognizes Tulloch’s decades of volunteerism and lifelong advocacy for inclusion, wellbeing, and sexual freedom.
At the 2017 Awards, photo Lazslo Kovacs
Kian de la Cour
This Award was a special surprise as it is the 30th Anniversary of the Awards, for someone who has worked very hard at many of them over those 30 years, and for the Outsiders Trust; Chair of the Sexual Freedom Awards Judges Panel (aka The Grand Jury of Conspicuous Sexuality), Kian de la Cour.
Kian de la Cour is an erotic pioneer who was one of our original judges in 1994, having been a volunteer for The Sex Maniac's Ball, Night of the Senses, and the Sexual Freedom Coalition. He is a Certified Sexological Bodyworker, Wheel of Consent workshop facilitator and director of the School of Somatic Sexology. He is President of the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers and Chair of the Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists.
Congratulations on your many years of service!
🌐 Insta @kiandelacour : : Facebook @nisarg.gyan : : 🌵 Linktr.ee
Lifetime Achievement award
Arianne Bloodwood
From living a straight hippy life in Australia’s rainforest, Arianne brought with them a skillset in accounting they had learned in community finance activism in the 1980s. In London they were supported by queer and sex positive community to transition, and their life profoundly opened up. The blessing of supportive community prompted a passion to reciprocate that support using the skills they brought. In 2013 they started offering accountancy to queers, creatives, performers and healers - people who because of work, identity or neurotype often struggle to find professional services.
Arianne’s vision of living in community where everyone feels confident and skilled with money and tax means they give highest priority to empowering people through sharing their skills and validating people’s existing knowledge and experience. Over the years they’ve worked with many individuals, businesses and organisations, including Pro Bono especially with sexworker organisations, where good money skills can have a wide impact.
Now through skilling up others they are able to pass on their accounting work and retire, to pursue community development projects around power, gender and intimacy.
Previous Lifetime Achievement awardees have included:
Derek Jarman – Anthony Grey (leading English lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights activist) – Deborah Ryder (writer of erotic fiction representing female masochism) – Kathy Acker (author) – Berth Milton (photographer & founder of Private in 1965) – Charles Gatewood (photographer) – Betty Dodson (author, artist & educator) – William Levy (founder of Suck & International Times) – Irena Ionesco (photographer) – Derek Cohen (founder of SM Gays in 1981) – Jo King (founder of the London School of Stripping) – Sir Guy of The Tawsingham Community and The Other Pony Club – William Margold (porn actor, director and activist) – Dian Hanson (publisher) – Dolores French (author of Working: My Life as a Prostitute) – Empress Stah (Aerial Artist, Cabaret Theatre Performer, Show Producer) – Barbara Carrellas (author of the the world’s first LGBTQ and kink inclusive Tantric sex book, Urban Tantra) – Joseph Kramer (pioneering founder of The Body Electric School, EroSpirit & Sexological Bodywork®) – Kenneth Ray Stubbs (quadriplegic sexual shaman & originator of modern tantric massage) – Crossbones (John Constable) – Dominic Davies (Pink Therapy) – 50th anniversary of the first U.K. Gay Pride March in 1972 (collected by Andrew Lumsden and Nettie Pollard for the GLF) – Deborah Sim aka The Keeper of the Museum of Sex Objects