- 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. - 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, … - 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, … - Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 - April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she linked with rape and other forms of violence against women. An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin became a radical feminist after escaping an abusive marriage in the Netherlands, and went on to publish ten books on radical feminist theory and practice. - Simon Levay
Simon LeVay (born 28 August 1943 in Oxford, England) is a neuroscientist and author known for his studies about brain structures and sexual orientation. He is also the co-author of a textbook on human sexuality and has coauthored books on diverse topics such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and extraterrestrial life. - Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. He promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives and abortion, and the importance for women of economic independence. One biographer, Myron Sharaf, writes that Reich's work left a deep impression on influential thinkers such as Alexander Lowen, Fritz Perls, … - Patrick Califia
Patrick Califia (formerly known as Pat Califia; born 1954 near Corpus Christi, Texas) is a writer about women's sexuality and of erotic fiction, nonfiction essays, and poetry. Califia is a bisexual transman - Eli Coleman
Eli Coleman, Ph.D., L.P. is the director of the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, and the chair of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care revision committee. He is also the editor of the "Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality". - Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She is married to English sound engineer Mark Hawley. Together they have one daughter, Natashya "Tash" Lórien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000. Amos was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few music stars to use a piano as her primary instrument. - Gilbert Herdt
Gilbert Herdt (born February 24, 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist who specializes in sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. His studies of the 'Sambia' people -- a pseudonym he created -- of Papua New Guinea analyzes how culture and society create sexual meanings and practices. In the United States, Herdt has also studied adolescents and their families, the emergence of HIV and gay culture, and the role that social policy plays in sexual health. - James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and essayist, best known for his novel "Go Tell It on the Mountain". Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century United States. - 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. - Robert Jensen
Robert William Jensen (born July 14 1958) is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media law and ethics in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. - Milton Diamond
Milton Diamond (born 6 March 1934 in New York, New York) is a professor of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawaii. He has had a very long and productive career in the study of human sexuality. Diamond graduated City College of New York with a B.S. in biophysics in 1955. He attended graduate school at University of Kansas from 1958-1962 and earned a Ph.D. in anatomy and psychology from that University. - Ariel Levy
Ariel Levy (born October 17, 1974) is a contributing editor at "New York magazine" and author of the book "Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture". Her work has appeared in "The Washington Post", "Vogue", "Slate", "Men's Journal" and "Blender". Levy was raised in Larchmont, New York, and attended Wesleyan University in the 1990s. Her experiences at Wesleyan, which she says had "co-ed showers, … - Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. Cohen's earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1968 album "Songs of Leonard Cohen") were rooted in European folk music melodies and instrumentation, sung in a high baritone. - 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. - Ian Kerner
Ian Kerner, Ph.D., FAACS, is an American sex counsellor and author. - Fritz Klein
Fred (Fritz) Klein (December 27, 1932 - May 24, 2006) was an American sex researcher, psychiatrist, pioneer of the bisexuality movement, and inventor of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid. - Mantak Chia
Mantak Chia is an author, teacher and self-described healer. He is known for his books and teachings on Taoism, qigong and Taoist sexuality. Mantak Chia is a controversial figure in Taoism, alternately praised for public disclosure of long-held secrets and condemned for idiosyncrasies such as giving undue weight to sexual practices and lore. His wife Maneewan Chia is the co-author of many of his books. - Robert C. Kolodny
Robert C. Kolodny is the author of numerous books on human sexuality and related topics. A graduate of Columbia University (B.A., 1965) and Washington University School of Medicine (M.D., 1969), where he co-founded the school's first course on medical ethics in 1969, Dr. Kolodny did his internship and residency at Harvard (at what is now the Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital) and a fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. - Clara McMillen
Clara Bracken McMillen (October 2, 1898 - 1982) contributed to the Kinsey Reports on human sexuality. She was the wife of Alfred Charles Kinsey. Born in Brookville, Indiana, McMillen majored in chemistry at Indiana University, graduating with Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and other honors. She also attended graduate school which eventually she left after marrying Alfred. - Richard Holloway
Richard Holloway is the Chair of the joint board of the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen, and has had a varied career as writer and broadcaster. He was Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus (Archbishop) of the Scottish Episcopal Church until he stood down in 2000. Richard was Gresham Professor of Divinity in the City of London 1997-2001. He was a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority from its inception in 1990 until 1997, and chaired its ethics committee. - 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. - Elise Sutton
Elise Sutton is beleived to be an author of books dealing with female dominance. However, for many readers there is no clear evidence about her real existance or the fact that, as claimed, she has written the works acredited to her and that claim to have been written by her. Sutton began with a website in the late 1990s. - Marjorie Garber
Marjorie B. Garber (born 11 June 1944) is a professor at Harvard University and the author of a wide variety of books, most notably ones about William Shakespeare and about sexuality. She wrote "Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety", a ground breaking theoretical work on transvestitism's contribution to culture. Other works include "Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life", "Shakespeare After All", … - Janice Raymond
Janice G. Raymond is professor emerita of women's studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Raymond is also Co-Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW). Raymond has been the recipient of grants from the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. National Institute of Justice, the Ford Foundation, the United States Information Agency, the National Science Foundation, … - Jonathan Ned Katz
Jonathan Ned Katz (born 1938) is a historian of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual American history, who has focused on same-sex attraction and changes in the social organization of sexuality over time. His works focus on the idea, rooted in social constructionism, that the categories with which we describe and define human sexuality are historically and culturally specific, along with the social organization of sexual activity, desire, relationships, … - Alan Sinfield
Alan Sinfield is a British theorist in the fields of Shakespeare and sexuality, modern theater, gender studies, queer theory (queer studies), post 1945 politics and cultural theory. - 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. - Beverly Engel
Beverly Engel is an MFCT and psychotherapist and the author of eighteen self-help books. She is an expert in the fields of sexual abuse, women's issues, relationships, and sexuality. She has appeared on: CNN, Oprah!, Sally Jesse Raphael, Ricki Lake, and Leeza, and is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences throughout the United States and Canada. - Fakir Musafar
Roland Loomis (born August 10, 1930 in Aberdeen, South Dakota), better known as Fakir Musafar is considered the father of the modern primitive movement. He has experimented on his own body with body modification techniques such as body piercing, tight corseting, branding, tattooing, suspension and temporary infibulation, and has documented, shared and taught others as part of his life's work making him an underground icon in BDSM, … - Lewis B. Smedes
Lewis Benedictus Smedes was a renowned Christian author, ethicist, and theologian in the Reformed tradition. He was a professor of theology and ethics for twenty-five years at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His 15 books, including the popular Forgive and Forget, covered some important issues including sexuality and forgiveness. - Paul McKenna
Paul McKenna PhD (born 8 November 1963, in Enfield, Middlesex, England) is a British hypnotist, author, and television personality. His major activities include self-improvement television shows, giving seminars through his company "Paul McKenna Training", producing books and multimedia products and performing hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming and other personal development techniques. - Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi (born December 5, 1954) is a Pakistani-British playwright, screenwriter, and novelist and short story writer on topics of race, nationalism, immigration, and sexuality. - William Acton
William Acton (1813-1875) was a British medical doctor and book writer. He was known for his books on masturbation. Acton was a native of Shillingstone, Dorsetshire. The second son of a clergyman, Acton went, in 1831, to London, where he enrolled as a resident apprentice at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1836, Acton, by then twenty-three years old, moved to Paris, where he met the well known United States doctor, Philippe Ricord. - 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. - Kara Walker
Kara Walker (born November 26, 1969) is a contemporary American artist who is best known for her exploration of race, gender, sexuality, and identity in her artworks. Walker was born in Stockton, California. Her retired father is a formally educated artist, a professor, and an administrator. Her mother worked as an administrative assistant and was inspired by her family to reveal her own artistic talents. - John Ince
John Ince (May 30 1952-) is a lawyer, politician, an erotic arts enthusiast and the controversial author of a book called "The Politics of Lust". He founded The Erosha School of Erotic Massage and The Art of Loving, a sexuality center in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is also the leader of a political party, the Sex Party (British Columbia). His professional interest in sex began in the early 1980s when as a lawyer in Vancouver, Canada he began representing artists, … - Bram Dijkstra
Bram Dijkstra is a professor of English literature. He joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego in 1966, and taught there until he retired and became an "emeritus" (retired professor who still holds the title) in 2000. He is the author of seven books on literary and artistic subjects.
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