Featured Speaker: Justin Lehmiller, PhD
Dr. Justin J. Lehmiller received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Purdue University. He is a Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute and author of the book
Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life. Dr. Lehmiller is an award winning educator, having been honored three times with the Certificate of Teaching Excellence from Harvard University, where he taught for several years. He is also a prolific researcher and scholar who has published more than 40 pieces of academic writing to date, including a textbook entitled
The Psychology of Human Sexuality (2nd edition released in 2017) that is used in college classrooms around the world. Dr. Lehmiller's research focuses on topics including casual sex, sexual fantasy, sexual health, and friends with benefits. His studies have appeared in all of the leading journals on human sexuality, including the
Journal of Sex Research,
Archives of Sexual Behavior, and
The Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Dr. Lehmiller is frequently interviewed by numerous media outlets, including
The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, CNN.com,
The Globe and Mail, and
The Sunday Times. He has been named one of 5 "Sexperts" You Need to Follow on Twitter by
Men's Health and one of the "modern-day masters of sex" by
Nerve. Dr. Lehmiller has appeared on several episodes of the television program
Taboo on the National Geographic Channel and is a frequent guest on
HuffPost Live and
RadioMD. He writes a regular column for Playboy entitled Hard Science, he is a guest contributor to Science of Relationships and Good in Bed, and he performs freelance writing for major publications, including
VICE,
TONIC, and
New York Magazine. In addition, the articles he writes on
Sex and Psychology have been syndicated on major websites, including
Business Insider,
Huffington Post,
Men's Health, and
Thought Catalog.
