Greetings from Dr. Carol Queen, Ph.D

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About Dr. Carol Queen Ph.D

Award-winning author, activist and sex educator with a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality, Carol Queen has been a part of Good Vibrations since 1990.  She currently serves as both Staff Sexologist and Chief Cultural Officer.  As a presenter for “Ask the Doctors,” one of Good Vibes’ free educational programs, Queen engages customers with in-store question and answer events.  She also hosts “Women Like Me,” the company’s women’s health and wellness program that focuses on sexuality through the lifecycle. In addition to her workshops and public appearances, Queen curates Good Vibrations’ Antique Vibrator Museum.

In 1975, Carol Queen co-founded GAYouth, one of the first LGBT youth organizations in America. In 2000, she became the Founding Director of the Center for Sex & Culture, a non-profit organization that provides sex-positive educational classes, as well as a sexuality library and archive accessible to the public. 

Carol Queen’s first book Exhibitionism for the Shy explores erotic self esteem.  Originally published in 1995 and now out of print, it will be reissued with new material in 2009.  Her erotic novel, The Leather Daddy and the Femme), won the 1999 Firecracker Alternative Book Award and hercollection of personal essays, Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture, is read in university classes across the country.  An accomplished short story author and editor, Carol Queen’s work can be found in several anthologies. PoMoSexuals, which she co-edited, won the 1998 Lambda Literary Award.

She has appeared in several sex ed films, including Carol Queen’s Great Vibrations: An Explicit Consumer Tour of Vibrators andBend Over Boyfriend: An Adventurous Couple’s Guide to Male Anal Pleasure. She also wrote and starred in G Marks the Spot: Good Vibrations’ Guide to the G-Spot and Female Ejaculation.

Carol Queen has addressed several professional and scholarly conventions, such as the International Condom Conference, International Conference on Prostitution, International Conference on Pornography and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. She often lectures at colleges and recently debated the Question of Promiscuity (Vice or Virtue?) at England’s Oxford University.

For over 25 years, Carol Queen has been active and speaking publicly on behalf of progressive sex education and sexual minority issues.  See what she has to say at Good Vibes Magazine, CarolQueen.com), SF Gate City Brights, Carnal Nation), MySpace, FaceBook and Twitter (@carolqueen).