Softcover, 432 pp. book  Strange Attractor Press is thrilled to announce the release of Sex is No Emergency: Adventures in a Post Punk Wonderland, the highly anticipated memoir by Dorothy Max Prior, available in May 2025. This captivating new volume offers a vivid and personal journey through the British occult and pagan countercultures of the 1980s and early 1990s . In her trademark wise, wry, and endlessly charming style, Dorothy Max Prior recalls her days drumming and touring with the infamous experimental pansexual psychedelic rock group Psychic TV; exploring the vibrant queer clubbing undergrounds of London and New York City; and weaving through the tangled worlds of the UK’s indie music scene at the height of its influence. Alongside these adventures, she shares stories of ballroom dancing, birthing babies, breastfeeding, and her move to Brighton to become a performance artist.

The memoir is enriched with over 50 photographs in black and white and colour, and the limited edition hardback includes a signed bookplate and a 32-page full-colour Psychic TV ephemera scrapbook. Readers will also encounter cameo appearances from cultural icons such as Björk, Derek Jarman, Madonna, and Ray Harryhausen.

“One of the best, and most surprising, memoirs from that period. I absolutely loved it.” - Dylan Jones (GQ, i-D, Arena; author of These Foolish Things)

“A treasure trove of a life in punk and post punk. The next best thing to actually being there.” - Mark Moore (S’Express and Umami Records; Madam JoJo’s DJ)

“Max’s adventures in a kind of wonderland are intimate, gossipy and funny, like the confidences of a really cool best friend.” - Cathi Unsworth (author of Season of The Witch: The Book of Goth)

“A rollicking adventure bursting with vivid details. Max and her creatively iconoclastic peers defied the stultifying conservatism of 1970s Britain and forged a technicolour world of their own making.” - Andrea Feldman (Warped Reality Magazine)