Dubberley studied psychology at Loughborough University, specialising in sexuality and covering topics including male and female attitudes to pornography and whether women want their sexual fantasies to be realised.She was also sabbatical editor of the Student's Union Magazine Label and the founder of the ever popular Freefest Student Union music festival. After being shortlisted for the Cosmopolitan Journalism Scholarship, and the Company Fiction Writer Award, she founded Cliterati in 2001, a text-based sex website for women offering erotica, advice and features.

Dubberley was founding editor of Scarlet, a sex magazine for women that launched in September 2004. She has written for numerous publications including More, New Woman, Elle, Men's Health, Forum, The Guardian, Penthouse, The Star and Glamour, and has had articles syndicated worldwide. She was heavily involved with a writer's website, abctales, which launched in around 2000.

She wrote the four most recent Lovers' Guide videos, edited the Lovers' Guide magazine and helped create loversguide.com. She also wrote for the Joan Rivers Position on Channel 5. Throughout 2006 she wrote and presented a monthly podcast show Sex Talk With Emily Dubberley for Audible.co.uk, which she followed with a series of erotic anthologies.

Currently, Dubberley is the editor of EK (Erotic Knave) magazine, sex agony aunt for Look magazine, book and gadgets editor for Scarlet, a writer of fiction and non-fiction books, and freelance journalist. In 2008, after her mother's successful treatment for breast cancer, Dubberley created Burlesque Against Breast Cancer, a charity campaign seeking to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. The BABC programme includes Ultimate Burlesque, an erotic anthology co-edited by Dubberley and Alyson Fixter and published by Xcite Books, and a burlesque fundraising ball held in Brighton in November 2008. The latest BABC venture is a new anthology, Ultimate Decadence, again co-edited by Dubberley with Alyson Fixter and Sarah Berry, and published by Xcite Books

Books

• The Lovers' Guide Lovemaking Deck (Connections, 2004)
• Brief Encounters: The Women's Guide to Casual Sex (Fusion Press, 2005)
• Things a Woman Should Know About Seduction (Carlton, 2005)
• Sex Play (Connections, 2005)
• You Must be My Best Friend Because I Hate You (Fusion, 2005)
• Sex for Busy People (Fireside, 2006)
• Whip Your Life into Shape: The Dominatrix Principle (Andrews McMeel, 2006)
• I'd Rather Be Single Than Settle (Fusion, 2006)
• More Sex Play (Connections, 2006)
• The Ex Factor (Fusion, 2007)
• The Good Fantasy Guide (Prospero Books, 2007)
• True Passion: A Tale of Desire As Told To Madame B (Ebury, 2007)
• Girlfriends: The Art of Women Loving Women (Hollan, 2008)
• Ultimate Burlesque (co-edited with Alyson Fixter) (Xcite Books, 2008)
• The Good Going Down Guide (with Al Needham) (Macmillan, 2008)
• Bound to Please (Connections, 2009)
• The Fantasy Box (Connections, 2009)
• Friendly Fetish (Piatkus, 2009)
• Ultimate Decadence (co-edited with Alyson Fixter and Sarah Berry) (Xcite Books, 2009)

DVDs

• Lovers' Guide: Sexual Positions
• Lovers' Guide: Sex Play
• Lovers Guide: Satisfaction Guaranteed, 7 Secrets to a Passionate Love Life

Podcasts

• Sex Talk With Emily Dubberley
• Dark Desires: A Collection of Erotic Stories
• A Little Bit More: A Collection of Erotic Stories
• Sapphic Seduction: A Collection of Erotic Stories
• Stranger Than Fiction: A Collection of Erotic Stories
• Vanilla Daydreams: A Collection of Erotic Stories