Educators

I work as a full-time assistant professor at Loyola College (Baltimore, MD). Our department offers master’s degrees in clinical and counseling psychology, as well as the Psy.D degree in an APA-accredited clinical psychology program. I have conducted research on attitudes toward bisexual women and men, and I am currently supervising gradaute student research related to bisexuality. I am available to speak on topics related to bisexuality, particularly on biphobia. Also, I welcome graduate students who are interested in conducting bi-related research. My two main bi-related publications are the following:

Mohr, J. J., Israel, T., & Sedlecek, W. E. (2001). Counselors’ attitudes regarding bisexuality as predictors of counselors’ clinical responses: An analogue study of a female bisexual client. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 48, 212-222.

Mohr, J. J., & Rochlen, A. B. (1999). Measuring attitudes regarding bisexuality in lesbian, gay male, and heterosexual populations. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 46, 353-369.

I am the founder of the Boston Area Sexuality and Spirituality Network, a staff writer for Spirituality and Sexuality magazine, and author of LIVING WITH VISION: RECLAIMING THE POWER OF THE HEART (Knowledge Systems, 1989) and HEALING THE WAR BETWEEN THE GENDERS (Forthcoming). I have led workshops nationally and internationally and public speak on a wide variety of subjects including gender and identity, gender reconciliation, heart-centered healing and social evolution.

I have practiced heart-centered, body-centered, psychospiritual therapy for nearly two decades in the Boston Area. I founded the Institute for Emotional-Kinesthetic Psychotherapy in 1990. My interests include trauma work, integrating sexuality and spirituality, mentoring the souls journey and creating healing community. I have worked with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people for most all of my years in practice, as well as members of various sexual subcultures.

My Degrees: I hold a Masters Degree in Organization Development from the Sloan School, MIT. I studied Psychobiology at Yale in the late 70s, prior to the availability of body psychotherapy training in any university setting. I have been a pioneer in the field of somatic psychology, helping found the first state professional association in Massachusetts in 1989, helping found the Somatics Community within the Association for Humanistic Psychology while serving on the AHP Board, and through establishing a 3 year apprenticeship training program in Emotional-Kinesthetic Psychotherapy (EKP)–the method I developed and have practiced since 1985. My school certified body-centered psychotherapists who completed the 1000+ hour program.

An experienced psychotherapist (see my listing under “psychotherapists”), I am also a workshop leader and sexuality educator. I give workshops on bisexuality to health professionals, graduate students in the health professions and to the general public.

For more information, please contact me either by telephone or email: [email protected].

I offer a variety of speechs and workshops (see website) and am available for guest teaching and guest lecturing. My self-published doctoral dissertation on contempoary U.S. sacred sexualities is available through my website, which also includes other samples of my writings, including the much-beloved 1991 anthology, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, named one of the top 100 queer books of the last century, which I co-edited with Lani Ka-ahumanu.

I also work as a sex coach and sex educator, particularly with women, older people, fat people, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender and intersex people, and those living with disabilities. I work with a wide range of communities including those in intentional spiritual communities or practices, those identifying as polyamorous (loving more than one, openly & honestly) and those with BDSM/leather affinities. My sex coaching services – patterned after Dodson (www.bettydodson.com) and Kramer (www.erospirit.org) – help you improve your self-pleasuring capacity and use that capacity to empower your whole life.

I offer a variety of speechs and workshops (see website) and am available for guest teaching and guest lecturing. My self-published doctoral dissertation on contempoary U.S. sacred sexualities is available through my website, which also includes other samples of my writings, including the much-beloved 1991 anthology, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, named one of the top 100 queer books of the last century, which I co-edited with Lani Ka-ahumanu.

I also work as a sex coach and sex educator, particularly with women, older people, fat people, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender and intersex people, and those living with disabilities. I work with a wide range of communities including those in intentional spiritual communities or practices, those identifying as polyamorous (loving more than one, openly & honestly) and those with BDSM/leather affinities. My sex coaching services – patterned after Dodson (www.bettydodson.com) and Kramer (www.erospirit.org) – help you improve your self-pleasuring capacity and use that capacity to empower your whole life.

Robin Renée’s published works include “Loving w/o Limits, " an essay from That Takes Ovaries!: Bold Females and Their Brazen Acts, Solomon, Rivka (ed.), Three Rivers Press (2002), and “Merging Candles: From Dualism into All,” an essay from Blessed Bi Spirit: Bisexual People of Faith, Kolodny, Debra R. (ed.), Continuum Press (2000). In 1998, she designed and facilitated the creative writing workshop, “Exciting the Writer.” Her poetry has been published in journals including New York Quarterly, Out/Look, Transgender Tapestry, and Inciting Desire.

For her own company, Menage a Music, Robin creates press releases, designs promotional materials, and maintains www.robinrenee.com. Her songwriting and performing credits include two full-length CDs, “In Progress (2000),” and “All Six Senses (2002).” She is open to writing-for-hire on all topics; primary interests include sexuality and gender issues, music interviews, articles, and reviews, Eastern spirituality, mysticism, and health/fitness.

Ron J. Suresha is an award-winning author and editor, a Bear community pioneer, and a bisexual activist born in Detroit, Michigan, who has worked in publications and publishing all his life. His nonfiction works include: a 1998 self-published beverage recipé book, Mugs o Joy: Delicious Hot Drinks (reprinted 2013); an acclaimed 2002 book on the gay and bisexual mens Bear subculture, Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions (revised edition, Bear Bones Books, 2008); and two anthologies, Bi Men: Coming Out (edited with Pete Chvany, Haworth/Routledge, 2006), and Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey (Routledge, 2010), both finalists for the Lambda Literary Award.

Suresha authored with Scott McGillivray a 2012 pictorial book, Fur: The Love of Hair (Bruno Gmünder), winner of a Rainbow Book Award. Suresha also writes and edits erotic fiction under the pseudonym R. Jackson, including the short-story anthology, Bi Guys: The Deliciousness of His Sex (reprinted, Lethe Press, 2009), also a Lambda Literary Award Finalist.

The author, who resides with his husband in Connecticut, is the Cofounder and Acquisitions Editor of the Bear Bones Books imprint of Lethe Press, which publishes quality literature written by and for the gay and bi mens Bear community.

My skills include:

• Qualitative and quantitative research about gender and sexuality.
• Academic writing and presentations about bisexuality.
• Public speaking and lectures about bisexuality.
• Sociology teaching and research, in particular the sociology of sexuality.

I serve adult populations with concerns about sexuality, age, gender and stigma.

Recent publications:

Engelberg, J., Lawton, S. & Shaw, J. (2021). The Futile Search for ‘Physiological Evidence’ of Male Bisexuality: A Response to Jabbour et al. Psychology of Sexualities Review, 12(2), 31-34.

Lawton, S. (2021). [Review of the book Bisexuality, Religion and Spirituality: Critical Perspectives, by A. K. T. Yip & A. Toft (eds.)] Psychology of Sexualities Review, 12(2), 55-57.

Dr. Carol Queen holds a PhD in Human Sexuality and is an essayist, erotic writer, staff sexologist and Chief Cultural Officer at Good Vibrations, and has addressed numerous scholarly and professional conferences. Dr. Robert Morgan Lawrence has a Doctorate of Education in Human Sexuality and a second PhD in health care. He has been working as a sex educator for 38 years, and has been a guest lecturer at many colleges and universities across the country.

The Center for Sex and Culture is a non-profit community center that hosts events, classes and parties ranging across topics related to sexuality, gender and sex education. The Center is also home to a gallery and huge archive and library of sex-related materials. The materials range from academic journals and papers to what has been called the largest erotic zine library in the world, to pulp and porn from the 1950s-today. Information on events, lectures, and how to get involved can be found on our website, along with several membership programs that can be applied to the cost of workshops and events, as well as library access.