- Violet Blue
Violet Blue (born on September 22) is an American sex writer, podcaster, blogger, editor, sex educator, and sex columnist. - Sue Johanson
Sue Johanson, CM, RN (born March 16, 1946) is a Canadian writer, public speaker, registered nurse, sex educator and media personality. - Tristan Taormino
Tristan Taormino (born May 9, 1971) is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, pornographic film director (and occasional actress) and self-styled "anal sexpert". She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with her Bachelor's degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1993. Tristan Taormino is the niece of author Thomas Pynchon. - Susie Bright
Susannah "Susie" Bright (also known as Susie Sexpert) (born March 25, 1958, Arlington, Virginia) is a writer, speaker, teacher, audio show host, performer, all on the subject of sexuality. She is one of the first writers/activists referred to as a sex-positive feminist. She has a weekly program entitled "In Bed with Susie Bright" distributed through audible.com, where she discusses a variety of social, freedom of speech and sex-related topics. - Carol Queen
Carol Queen is an American author, editor, and sexologist active in the sex-positive feminist movement. Queen has written essays, analyses, and erotica, including "Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture", and the novel "The Leather Daddy and the Femme". She has also served as editor for many compilations and anthologies on human sexuality, and written regular features for "Good Vibrations" magazine, … - Betty Dodson
Betty Dodson, Ph.D. (born August 24 1929) is an American sex educator, author, and artist. She is widely known as a pioneer in women's (and to a somewhat lesser extent men's) sexual liberation, having sold more than 1 million copies of her first book, "Sex for One". Much of her fame has come from her work not only advocating masturbation, but conducting workshops for more than 30 years in which groups of about 10 or more women would talk, explore their own bodies, … - Nina Hartley
Nina Hartley (born Marie Louise Hartman on March 11, 1959 in Berkeley, California) is an American pornographic actress and sex educator. - Heather Corinna
Heather Corinna (1970) is an author, activist and internet publisher with a focus on progressive, affirming sexuality. She is a self-described 'queer polymath: feminist activist, writer, photographer, artist, educator, internet publisher and community organizer ' and was one of the pioneers of positive human sexuality on the internet. - Annie Sprinkle
Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, North America) is a former prostitute, stripper, porn film star, cable television host, porn magazine editor and writer, and sex film producer. She received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1986. Currently, Sprinkle works as a performance artist and sex educator. According to "Curve" magazine, Sprinkle, who is bisexual, … - Susan Block
Susan Marilyn Block, Ph.D., also known as Dr. Susan Block and Dr. Suzy, is an American sexologist, author, filmmaker, therapist, cable TV talk show host and cultural commentator. She is perhaps best-known for her television specials on HBO Chosen as one of "America's Greatest Thinkers" by the Great American Think-Off of New York Mills, Minnesota, … - Dan Savage
Daniel Keenan Savage is an openly gay American sex advice columnist, author, media pundit, journalist, and newspaper editor. His strong opinions pointedly clash with both traditional conservative moral values and those put forth by what Savage has been known to call the "gay establishment." Savage has also worked as a theater director, both under his real name and under the name Keenan Hollahan, … - Felice Newman
Felice Newman is a Somatic Coach, sex educator, and author—and an advocate for everyone having deeply fulfilling sex lives. As founding publisher of Cleis Press, she helped to change the way an entire generation thinks—and what they read—about sex and gender. Taken together, the more than 200 books produced by Cleis Press since 1980 comprise a detailed, direct survey of the contemporary American sexual landscape, a landscape which she helped shape. - Ducky Doolittle
Ducky DooLittle (born June 3, 1970, in Fridley, Minnesota) is a sex educator, performer, writer, former peepshow girl, and sexual assault and violence intervention counselor in the New York City area. She is the author of the book "Sex with the Lights On: 200 Illuminating Sex Questions Answered" (ISBN 0-7867-1680-0). DooLittle began her career in sexuality by working as a peepshow girl in New York's Times Square in the 1980s. - Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 - August 25, 1956), was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology who in 1947 founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. - Dossie Easton
Dossie Easton (b. February 22, 1944, Winchester, Massachusetts) is an author and family therapist based in San Francisco, California. She lives in West Marin, California with her partner. She is a nonfiction author and poet. - Ruth Westheimer
Dr. Ruth Westheimer is a psychosexual therapist who helped to pioneer the field of media psychology with her radio program, Sexually Speaking. It began in September of 1980 as a fifteen minute, taped show that aired Sundays after midnight on WYNY-FM (NBC) in New York. One year later it became a live, one-hour show airing at 10 PM on which Dr. Ruth, as she became known, answered call-in questions from listeners. - Joani Blank
Joani Blank (born 1937) is an entrepreneur, editor, writer, videographer, educator, and inventor in the field of sexuality. She founded Down There Press, a publisher of sex-related books, in 1975. Later she opened Good Vibrations, the second woman-oriented sex toy business in the United States, in 1977. She was one of the first volunteers at San Francisco Sex Information and has served on the Board of Directors of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. - Margaret Sanger
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Initially met with fierce opposition to her ideas, Sanger gradually won some support, both in the public as well as the courts, for a woman's choice to decide how and when she will bear children. - Shere Hite
Shere Hite (B.A. and M.A., History , 1967 and 1969) has published several books over the years, including The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality and The Hite Report on Male Sexuality . She lives in London and is a newspaper columnist for several publications around the world. - Midori
Midori is a prominent human sexuality writer, speaker, and sex educator based in San Francisco, California. Her writings and contributions have appeared in many books and magazines. Her field includes indepth knowledge in general sexuality as well as alternative sexual practices, including BDSM and fetish. She was born in Kyoto, Japan of Japanese and German parents, and raised in a feminist intellectual Tokyo household. Midori moved to the USA during her teens. - Norman Nawrocki
Norman Nawrocki, is a Montreal-based comedian, sex educator, cabaret artist, musician, author, actor, producer and composer. Nawrocki together with Sylvain Côté were the founding members of "rock 'n roll cabaret" band Rhythm Activism. Nawrocki owns Les Pages Noires, through which he has published twenty albums and three books. - Nancy Friday
Nancy Friday (born August 27 1933) is an author who has written on the topics of female sexuality and liberation. Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women's true inner lives, and that openness about women's hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves. She asserts that this is not due to deliberate malice, … - Rebekka Armstrong
Rebekka Lynn Armstrong (born February 20, 1967 in Bakersfield, California) is a "Playboy" Playmate, whose announcement in 1994 that she was HIV-positive made international headlines - Wardell Pomeroy
Wardell Baxter Pomeroy (December 6, 1913 - September 6, 2001) was an American sexologist and co-author with Alfred C. Kinsey. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He graduated from Indiana University (BA, 1935; MA, 1942) and earned a Ph.D. in psychology in 1954 from Columbia University. While working as a psychologist in an Indiana state hospital, he met Kinsey and came to work on his seminal sex-research project. - Oswalt Kolle
Oswalt Kolle (born October 2 1928) is a German sex educator, who became famous during the 1960s for his numerous books and films on human sexuality. His work was translated into all major languages, while his films found an audience of 140 million worldwide. He was awarded the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal in 2000. A widower since 2000, he has lived in Amsterdam since the 1970s with his three children. - Lasara Firefox
LaSara FireFox is a writer, ritualist, sex-positive activist and educator in the fields of sex, sacred sex and sexuality. She lives with her two daughters and husband in the wilds of Northern California. - Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate. He was born in Kolberg (modern Kołobrzeg) in a Jewish family, the son of a well-beloved physician and 'Medizinalrat', Hermann Hirschfeld. In 1887-1888 he studied in Breslau Philosophy and Philology, then from 1888-1892 Medicine in Strasbourg, Munich, Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1892 he took his doctoral degree. After his study he traveled through the U.S.A. for eight months, … - William Masters
William Howell Masters (December 27, 1915 - February 16, 2001) was an American gynecologist, best known as the senior member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team. Along with Virginia E. Johnson, he pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s. Masters was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Hamilton College. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, … - Robin Milhausen
Robin Milhausen is a Canadian sexologist and talk show host. She edits the newsletter "Sexual Science", published by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. She was raised in Collingwood, Ontario, on Georgian Bay, and decided at a young age to become a sex educator. She cites fellow Canadian sexologist Sue Johanson as a role model. - Catherine Gross
Catherine Gross is a nationally known speaker, sex educator, BDSM aficionado, and life coach. She travels extensively giving seminars and producing weekend events across the country and enjoys her private practice. She has taught at hundreds of events and is the producer of Southeast Leatherfest, Servants Retreat, … - Virginia E. Johnson
Virginia Eshelman Johnson (born February 11, 1925 in Springfield, Missouri) was an American psychologist, best known as the junior member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team. Along with William Masters, she pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s. - Darklady
Theresa "Darklady" Reed is a sex writer and erotic party impresario who resides in Portland, Oregon. In addition to work as a reviewer of adult videos, toys, publications, and websites, she writes lifestyle columns and feature articles for publications and websites including "AVN" magazine, "Playtime" magazine, and Voracitybeat.com. She has been a radio personality, art and photo model, adult screenplay writer, public speaker, and political candidate. - Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 - May 31, 1910) was an abolitionist, women's rights activist, and the first female doctor in the United States. Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, the third of nine children born to a sugar refiner, named Samuel Blackwell, who could afford to give his numerous sons, and also daughters, an education. Samuel Blackwell believed that his daughters should get the same education as boys so he had his daughters tutored. - Sasha
Sasha is best known as a Canadian advice columnist, who writes the weekly sex advice column "Love Bites". Her column originated in the "Montreal Mirror". After she relocated to Toronto, "Love Bites" made its debut in "eye weekly" shortly after Dan Savage's sex column moved to competitor "Now" in 1999. As Sasha Van Bon Bon she is a co-creator and member of The Scandelles, … - Rolf Gindorf
Dr. Rolf Gindorf is a German sexologist. - Christina Abernathy
Christina Abernathy is an author who writes BDSM sex manuals with a particular emphasis on erotic domination. Her works include "Miss Abernathy's Concise Slave Training Manual" and "Training with Miss Abernathy: A Workbook for Erotic Slaves and Their Owners", both published by Greenery Press. - Sister Kitty Catalyst O.C.P.
Sister Kitty Catalyst O.C.P. (of the Catnip Patch) is a San Francisco based social activist, AIDS educator, writer, performance artist and underground fixture in San Francisco's bohemian landscape mainly serving the queer (lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, transgender and kink) communities. She is one of the notorious Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and has orchestrated political actions, … - Terry Garrity
Joan Theresa Garrity, (born abt 1940), is an American author, best known as the author of "The Sensuous Woman". She was raised in Lee's Summit, Missouri and she studied at Palm Beach Junior College in Florida. She worked on the staff of publisher Lyle Stuart and had published a book about shopping in New York when in 1969 she published (under the pseudonym of "J.") "The Sensuous Woman", … - Bruce M. King
In 1978 Bruce King received a Ph.D. in biopsychology from the University of Chicago. Since 1981 he has taught human sexuality to over 40,000 students at the University of New Orleans. King has written the textbook "Human Sexuality Today" which is used in classrooms nationwide. King has conducted countless numbers of human sexuality workshops for physicans, public schools, teachers, staff members working with the mentally retarded and parental groups. - Katti Anker Møller
Katti Anker Møller was a Norwegian feminist, children's rights advocate, and a pioneer of reproductive rights. She is known to posterity as the "advocate of mothers." She was born Cathrine Anker in Hamar, the daughter of Herman Anker. She had nine siblings and grew up around the first "folkehøyskole" at Sagatun in Hamar, founded by her father. Educated as a teacher, she spent a year in France, …
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