Following on from his bestselling study of violence The Football Factory John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New Year's Eve The Sex Division sees the once sacred act of procreation at its most material as five men devise a system based on the sexual act. In this lager-soaked league the most that women can offer a man is 4 points - unless that is she leaves her handbag unattended...
From its base in the asset-stripped emotionally castrated 90s Headhunters shows the dreams of The Sex Division members breaking through the heavy media cloud of anorexic pin-ups and paedophile fashion. A missing brother prophetic visions a love affair and tit-for-tat confrontation draw the characters out into the open - revealing the men behind the machismo their need for mutual respect and their recognition of the hidden or suppressed affinities.
