Blogger Wants Anonymity, But Not Really

Like Sacha Noam Baron Cohen before her, Zoe Margolis is crossing the pond to relaunch her career. While Cohen left because his notoriety left alter-egos Borat, Bruno and Ali G without people to gag, Margolis ran out of people to shag. The Londoner, famous for her sex-blog Girl With A One Track Mind has had it with blokes and is intent coming to and in America. In a recent article in the Guardian—essentially, the UK version of Emily Gould’s recent confessional, details how blogging about her sex life ruined it. Once her identity was revealed by some intrepid journalists in 2006, a book deal and fame followed. “The aftermath of losing my anonymity had left me feeling fragile: I needed to curl up in someone's arms, not just shag them senseless,” she writes.

So it’s off to New York in search of the perfect gent—they don’t call it ‘Man’hattan for nothing—a sexually liberated city where people have uninhibited sex and then uninhibitedly write about it. Margolis hopes her New York anonymity will give her a fresh start which she is determined to sour all over again. “At the very least, being there will help me shed the insecurities and inhibitions that I’ve developed as a result of losing my anonymity—and that’s no bad thing. Hopefully I’ll be able to slip quietly into the background and become just another single woman—albeit with the advantage of a London accent—looking for, and finding, love in the Big Apple ... and writing about it, of course.”