Sex educators Sex educators An agony aunt is an advice columnist at a magazine or newspaper. The image presented was originally of an older woman providing comforting advice and maternal wisdom, hence the name "aunt". ...more on Wikipedia about "Agony aunt"
Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey ( June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956), was a professor of entomology and zoology who in 1947 founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University Bloomington, now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. Kinsey's research on human sexuality profoundly influenced social and cultural values in the United States during the 1960s with the advent of the sexual revolution. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Kinsey"
Annie F. Sprinkle, Ph.D. (born Ellen F. Steinberg July 23, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a prostitute, stripper, porn film star, cable television host, porn magazine editor and writer, performance artist and sex educator; she describes herself as a "Post-Porn Modernist" and an open bisexual. She is perhaps best known for live shows in which she invites the audience to "demystify the female body" by viewing her cervix with a speculum and flashlight. ...more on Wikipedia about "Annie Sprinkle"
Daniel Keenan Savage (born October 7, 1964 near Chicago, Illinois) is an openly gay American sex-advice columnist, author, media pundit, journalist and newspaper editor whose 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". He is also a playwright and theater director, both under his real name and under the name Keenan Hollahan, using his middle name and his grandmother's maiden name. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dan Savage"
Elizabeth Blackwell ( February 3, 1821 – May 31, 1910) was the first woman to practice medicine in the United States. She was born in Bristol , England, the third of nine children born to a sugar refiner who could afford to give his numerous daughters, as well as his sons, an education. In 1831, the family emigrated to the United States, and set up a refinery in New York City. After the death of her father, she took up a career in teaching. Desiring to apply herself to the practice of medicine, she took up residence in a physician's household, using her time there to study from the family's medical library. She became active in the anti-slavery movement (as did her brother Henry Brown Blackwell, who married Lucy Stone), in the course of which she made friends with Harriet Beecher Stowe. Another brother, Samuel C. Blackwell, married another important figure in women's rights, Antoinette Brown. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elizabeth Blackwell"
Margaret Higgins Sanger ( September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of certain aspects of eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Initially meeting with fierce opposition to her ideas, Sanger gradually won the support of the public and the courts for a woman's right to choose for family planning. Though her selective support of eugenics was less well received, Margaret Sanger was instrumental in opening the way to universal access to birth control. ...more on Wikipedia about "Margaret Sanger"
Gynecologist William Howell Masters ( December 27, 1915 – February 16, 2001) and psychologist Virginia Eshelman Johnson (born February 11, 1925) pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Masters and Johnson"
Nancy Friday (born August 27, 1933) is an author who has written on the topics of female sexuality and liberation (with a small "l"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Nancy Friday"
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. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oswalt Kolle"
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. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rebekka Armstrong"
Robin Milhausen is a Canadian sexologist and talk show host. She was raised in Collingwood, Ontario, on Lake Huron, and decided at a young age to become a sex educator. She cites fellow Canadian sexologist Sue Johanson as a role model. She received a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in human development and human relations at the University of Guelph in Ontario and went on to earn a Ph.D. at Indiana University, with a minor from the Kinsey Institute of Human Sexuality . In 2004, she began hosting the talk show Sex, Toys and Chocolate on Life Network and Discovery Health in Canada. Since the show began, she finished her Ph.D. and engaged in a post-doctoral fellowship in 2004-05 at Emory University in Atlanta and during this time commuted to Toronto several times a month to tape the talk show. In 2005, she began another post-doctoral fellowship at the Social Justice and Sexual Health Research Centre at the University of Windsor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robin Milhausen"
Ruth Westheimer, Ed.D (born Karola Ruth Siegel on June 4, 1928) is a popular American sex therapist and author best known as Dr. Ruth. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ruth Westheimer"
Sasha is 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. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sasha (journalist)"
Shere Hite (born November 2, 1942 in St. Joseph, Missouri) is a sex educator and feminist. Her sexological work has focused primarily on female sexuality. Hite builds upon biological studies of sex by Masters and Johnson, Kinsey. She also references theoretical, political and psychological works associated with the feminist movement of the 1970's, such as Anne Koedt's The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shere Hite" Whatever You're Into, Get Into www.shortopedia.com.
Sue Johanson, CM is a Canadian writer, public speaker, registered nurse, sex educator and media personality. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sue Johanson"
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 a sex-positive feminist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Susie Bright"
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 (Adult Video News) Magazine, Playtime Magazine, and Voracitybeat.com. She has been a radio personality, art and photo model, adult screenplay writer, public speaker, and political candidate. In her personal life, she is bisexual and polyamorous. Her erotica appears in a number of anthologies, including Best S/M Erotica and Best Bisexual Erotica 2. She is assistant editor of YNOT.com. A founding member of the Portland Leather Alliance, she serves as the Woodhull Freedom Foundation's liaison to the adult entertainment industry, is a board member for PABA, past director of communication and outreach for the Portland Pink Pistols, and past vice-chair for the Libertarian Party of Multnomah County. She organizes innovative, pansexual fundraising events approximately every two months and believes that grass roots coalition building is vital to the survival of individuals and organizations alike. Each year she hosts Portland’s official Masturbate-a-thon charity fundraiser. In 2002, she ran for Oregon House of Representatives and earned 10% of the vote. In 2004, she ran for a seat on the Oregon Senate. Darklady was voted "Ms. Oregon Leather 2004", and competed for Ms. World Leather in 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "Theresa Reed"
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. Pomeroy personally recorded approximately 6,000 sexual histories. He was co-author with Kinsey on the landmark books Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). He went into the private practice of sex therapy in New York City in 1963 and wrote books about adolescent sexuality for popular consumption. In 1976, he became dean of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality and an adjunct professor at California Medical School and California State University at Northridge. Pomeroy retired due to declining health in 1983 and died in Bloomington, Indiana of Lewy Body Dementia. He was portrayed in the 2004 theatrical film Kinsey by Chris O'Donnell. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wardell Pomeroy"
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