About Me

Kate Monro was born the daughter of a diplomat and a housewife in 1968. An unremarkable education preceded a career that has taken in spells with the rock band Blur, with the publishing mavericks Dazed & Confused and, most recently, with marketing & PR agency, Cunning. Whilst feeling that she had achieved her ambition to work for companies with verbs for names, it wasn’t until she completed a copywriting course, that she discovered a love of words and editing text.

A light bulb moment on a Californian beach followed and as a result, she set out to ask British men and women to reveal their most intimate truth - their virginity loss stories. The response was overwhelming and the result is a groundbreaking and very personal insight into the beating heart of British sexuality. She has recently finished editing the stories into a book.

A keen speaker on her subject, she has appeared on Woman’s Hour, London and regional BBC radio stations and The Jim Davis Show (LBC). She has also caught the media’s attention with her blog, ‘The Virginity Project’. Writing about her unusual journey as she interviews strangers about their sex lives, she has been interviewed by Cosmo Landesman for The Sunday Times, The Guardian Online, The Independent and Metro.

For her next move, she plans to take herself, a video camera and her interviewing skills to the USA in a bid to meet Americans everywhere and ask them the question, ‘So, how did you lose your virginity?’