Anonymous British Sex Blogger Reveals Herself: She’s A Ph.D.

After six years of successfully, improbably preserved anonymity, British sex blogger Belle de Jour has revealed her true identity: she’s Brooke Magnanti, a cancer researcher with a Ph.D. in informatics, epidemiology and forensic science. The British media sometimes tends towards alarmism on issues that vaguely smack of sexual morality (see: that one photo of the drunk girl with her underwear around her ankles). How is it taking the news?