About Me

Kate Monro was born the daughter of a diplomat and a housewife on a farm in Yorkshire. 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 ridiculous 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.

An enthusiastic and articulate speaker on her subject, she has also caught the media’s attention via 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 as well as The Guardian Online and The Independent. She has also appeared live on Woman’s Hour, The Vanessa Feltz show, The Jim Davis Show and regional BBC Radio.

‘The Virginity Dialogues’ will be Kate Monro’s first book. Upon completion, 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?’

When she is not asking people personal questions about their love lives, she is either blogging about them or passing the time by searching for new victims, sorry, freelancing in the advertising industry. She also enjoys writing about gender related issues, sex and relationships.