The Red Knob

Sexual Health Education, Resources and Training

The Pursuit of (T)reason

Well, here’s a cryptic message for a few folk - and those who possess an Enigma machine…
Best before ‘84? The title of a compilation of Greatest Hits by that popular anarcho-wedding band CRASS? Or perhaps an inference to the 5 Year Plan instigated by the planners in the Red Knob Coal Bunker (now occupied by forces […]

Keep on Keepin’ on. Etc

Just a quickie to say many thanks to those wonderful chaps and chapettes in the UK armed forces who recently invited us to participate in their Military Men’s Health Symposium - which of course we did (we wouldn’t want to contravene the Official Secrets Act, which some of us may have even signed, by disclosing […]

Private Dick’s Discourse - or The Case of The Man in Need of a Pair of Binoculars

Well, let’s take a look at the past few months, let’s be contentious and up the ante. Stealth taxes have made the populace meaner, people having twigged they now have less in their pockets. The working classes ( and dare we use the term ‘working’ in these classless times? One M. Thatcher supposedly having done […]

What’s all the fuss about?

This is The Red Knob fanzine. It’s about sexual health. It is targeted at a specific male cultural group according to principles of social marketing segmentation - it applies the sociology theory of masculinities to define the masculine group it is aimed at, and uses language and humour, cartoons and imagery that may offend the […]

Equal Opportunities? Revisited

Standing in the reception of the Youth Offending Service I currently work for, a colleague from the training department came in with a brown cardboard box filled with literature, condoms and a prosthetic penis/condom demonstration model. She began a conversation, elaborating to myself and the others present, how she would be using the contents of […]

Happy St[i] Valentine’s Day


Hey Bugsy!

With St Valentine’s Day fast approaching we’re in no doubt that the usual ‘timely messages’ will be rolled out by organisations involved in sexual health. After all people only have sex at Christmas, St Valentine’s Day, National Condom Week, and during their Summer holidays, or whenever else it is that the people that decide on […]

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