Over the years, Erotic Review has had many prominent contributors, among them Sarah Waters, Michel Faber, Barry Humphries, Simon Raven, Auberon Waugh, Alain de Botton, India Knight, Arnold Wesker, Mariella Frostrup, Claus von Bulow, Damien Hirst, Boris Johnson, Malcolm McLaren, Steven Appleby, David Bailey, George Saunders and Immodesty Blaize.
[5] Edward Timon, who had been hired as deputy editor under Kin, took over as Editor-in-Chief at the end of 2004 as part of a deal to revive another well-known British publication, Forum - The International Journal of Human Relations; successfully negotiating a deal with publisher Q3 to take on monthly magazine Forum only if Erotic Review could also be revived as a quarterly publication.
Timon revamped ER to be less elitist, aimed at the emerging neo-libertarian audiences who were feeding the Burlesque cabaret revival in the UK at the time.
Utilising the global nature of the internet, printing was moved from Spain to Hong Kong allowing for significant savings to be achieved, despite the need to have the magazine flown to Dubai and then shipped to Felixstowe.
Timon's campaign for new editorial assistance received attention from the Financial Times' Clay Harris, in the Mudlark media column for seeking staff who "must embody pure sunshine" [6] Over the next two years the ER readership steadily grew, while Forum's stagnated, until the then publisher of Attitude magazine, Trojan, purchased the titles and took on the entire staff of Q3.