01 Aug You Can Now Go To A Place Where Naked Men Simply Read To You

“Shall I get naked,” the drag queen and hostess of the night drawled before leaning forward, discarding her girly tone to repeat “I said, should I get naked?” The audience erupted into laughter whilst Dr Sharon Husbands stood back, twiddled a strand of her blonde curly wig, (a vision which was only made better by her immaculately groomed beard) and simply replied, “we’ll see”.

I was of course at Naked Men Reading, the literary salon where, you guessed it, naked men read literature to you.

I first heard about the bi-monthly event when mindlessly scrolling through the depths of the internet, and well, what can I say, it piqued my interest. Being a literature graduate, I realised that a rather innocuous Thursday would be transformed by the addition of a couple of hunky men flashing their junk whilst reading seminal texts from the canon of LGBTQ literature.

It was hosted in the basement of the Ace Hotel in Shoreditch, London, and the audience certainly lived up to the connotations of “trendiness” that the location inspired.

I certainly did not expect anything less than a crowd of chain-smoking bespectacled hipsters, and that’s precisely what I got – give or take a couple of businessmen. In fact the only thing I didn’t expect was how many of them turned up as I had assumed that naked men reading attracted more of an esoteric crowd. I was incorrect: the dimly lit basement was packed, with more people standing than sitting.

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