EMPRESS OF THE SENSES – BETONY VERNON

Known chiefly as a creator of transgressive jewellery, the flame-haired femme-fatale Betony Vernon is also a ‘sexual anthropologist.’ Described by Alejandro Jodorowsky as an ‘urban shaman’, and deferred to by some of the most renowned doctors in an evolving eld of sexual wellbeing, her herapeutical work o en explores what most would consider to be an obvious precept of sado-masochistic practice. While she is not interested in such categorisation, she is convinced that all kinds of sexual pleasure, no matter how one attains it, demand a certain level of dominance and submission. In this excerpt from her extended interview in Author Magazine, the author of The Boudoir Bible: The Uninhibited Sex Guide for Today speaks to us about the future of human relationships in an increasingly fractured sexual landscape.

“I am public about my conviction that the power of love and spiritual wellbeing are far more potent than anything else, and it is for this reason that love, like pleasure and self-knowledge, are not encouraged by our class structure. In fact, they are traits that are constantly undermined by the establishment. This is because a happy, well-loved and spiritually grounded society makes for a really bad economy.”