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Dr. Marty Klein
Dr. Marty Klein is an American sex therapist, educator and public policy analyst. His goals are to educate the public and policymakers about sexuality, help people feel sexually adequate and powerful, and to support the healthy sexual expression and exploration of both women and men.

Klein is critical of censorship, the concepts of "sex addiction" and "porn addiction," and the anti-pornography movement. He has written five books on sexuality, most recently America’s War on Sex, honored as the year’s Best Sexuality Book by AASECT. It documents how the issue of sexual regulation is being used to undermine secular democracy.

Klein’s work continually challenges American society’s (and psychotherapy’s) assumptions about sexuality; he is particularly critical of what he calls the “Sexual Disaster Industry” and the “Oprah-ization” of psychotherapy and medicine. More recently he has spoken out against the criminalization and cruel punishment of teen “sexting.”

Klein has written over 100 articles for publications such as The Journal of Sex Research, San Francisco Medicine, The Journal of Homosexuality, and Contemporary Sexuality, as well as Parents, Playboy, American Baby, Modern Bride, and New Woman.

Dr. Klein has lectured at over 50 American universities, including Columbia, Stanford, and Syracuse. He has addressed the annual meetings of dozens of national organizations, including:

• American Library Association

• Family Online Safety Institute

• California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists

• Planned Parenthood

• National Association of Social Workers

• American Civil Liberties Union

• Society for Sex Therapy and Research

• Sex::Tech

• Milton Erikson Foundation

• The Junior League

In the Media
Video

Nightline: Is Sex Addiction Real?

ABC - TV's 20/20: Age of Consent: Criminalization of Sex

PBS Digital Nation @FOSI: Marty Klein

American Library Association: Sex, Libraries, & Librarians--hysteria over perverts and sexy books is killing the system

[http://www.empowher.com/media/video/are-sex-toys-legitimate-part-womans-sex-life-dr-klein-video EmpowHER: Are Sex Toys for Women Legitimate? ]

News

The New Yorker: The Pathology of Sex

SF Weekly: Is There Such a Thing as Sex Addiction?

Wired: Is 'Internet Normal' the New 'Sex Normal'?

New York Times: More Sex, Less ‘Joy’

Salon.com: Is Sex Addiction Real?

CommonSense Media: Are Lots of Teens Sexting?

Criminalizing Consenting S&M?

Publications
Books • America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust, & Liberty (Praeger Publishers, 2006). ISBN 978-0275987855

• Beyond Orgasm: Dare to be Honest About the Sex You Really Want (Ten Speed Press, 2002). ISBN 1-58761-168-6

• Let Me Count the Ways: Discovering Great Sex Without Intercourse (Tarcher, 1999). ISBN 978-0874779561

• Ask Me Anything: Dr. Klein Answers the Sex Questions You’d Love to Ask (SexEd Press, 1996). ISBN 0-9704526-3-2

• Your Sexual Secrets: When to Keep Them, When & How to Tell (Dutton, 1988). ISBN 0-525-24716-5

Landmark Cases
Klein participates in court cases involving issues such as censorship, obscenity, and sexual expression. Klein has served as an expert witness or invited defendant in a number of landmark federal and state cases, including:


 * Cyberspace Communications, Inc. v. Engler, 142 F Supp. 2d 827 (E.D. Mich 2001)


 * ACLU v. Goddard, Civ. No. 00-0505 TUC AM (D. Ariz. Aug 11, 2004)


 * US v. Fletcher (2008)


 * US v. Marcus (2004)


 * Williams v. Pryor, D. C. Docket No. 98-01938-CV-5 (2007)