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Roger W. Libby (born May 4, 1942), is an American board-certified sexologist, sex therapist, sex research fellow, radio talk show host, relationship counselor and author of many academic and educational books on human sexuality. An early proponent of the "Sex Positive" movement theorized by Wilhem Reich, Libby was the first to author the tenets of the "Sex Positive" approach in an American college textbook he co-authored entitled "Sexual Choices: An Introduction to Human Sexuality"

Dr. Libby has been featured on numerous television programs, including The NBC Nightly News, CNN News Night, Phil Donahue, Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Sally jesse Rafael, Jerry Springer and Geraldo, among others. He has been interviewed on over 500 radio shows including ABC Talknet, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the American Radio Network, CBS radio and National Public Radio.

Libby was the host of the top-rated, radio call-in show The Pleasuredome which aired on 99x in Atlanta, from 1996-1999, developing a huge young adult following. As a result of that experience, he authored his next book, "The Naked Truth About Sex: A Guide to Intelligent Sexual Choices for Teenagers and Twentysomethings ."

In February of 2014, Libby launched a remote access program for Sex Tele-Therapy connecting patients from locations across the United States to his practices in Seattle and Poulsbo, Wa., and facilitating sex therapy counseling over the telephone or Internet.

Early life[edit] Libby was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Marian Carson and Donald E. Libby, his father a musician and recording artist with bands like Guy Lombardo and Percy Faith who then became a music and band teacher in Magnolia, Wa. Moving to Seattle at age 5, young Libby raced hydroplanes in competitions on Lake Sammamish and Lake Washington where he garnered many trophies. Roger has a younger brother, Richard C. Libby.

Education and Career[edit]

Libby graduated from Western Washington University in 1964 with a B.A. degree in English and went on to earn an M.A. in Child Development and Family Relations from University of Connecticut in 1969 and a Ph.D. degree in Human Sexuality, Social Psychology, Marriage and Family Counseling in 1974 from Washington State University. A Postdoctoral fellowship was bestowed in 1978 at the University of New Hampshire where he researched the corollaries between sex and violence.

From 1985 to present day, Libby has pursued the practice of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as an AASECT board certified clinical sexologist, sex educator and sex researcher; college lecturer, author, and television and radio sex expert. Libby was an adjunct professor at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, and a researcher, and speaker to medical, university, counseling and community groups.

From 1978 to 1985, Libby was an Assistant Professor at the Center for Research on Families at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

From Sept. 1977 to Sept. 1978, Libby was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Program in Family Violence, to study relationship between sex and violence, University of New Hampshire.

From Sept. 1976 to Sept. 1978, Libby was a Research Associate in Sociology at the State University of New York, Albany.

From Sept. 1974 to Sept. 1976, Libby was the Senior Research Associate and Research Director for the Institute for Family Research and Education, and Visiting Associate Professor in the Dept. of Child and Family Studies at Syracuse University.

From Sept. 1973 to Sept. 1974, Libby was the Visiting Assistant Professor of Family Development at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Publications[edit]

The Naked Truth About Sex: A Guide to Intelligent Sexual Choices for Teenagers and Twentysomethings. Freedom Press, Topanga, Cal., March 22, 2006.

“The War Against Lust,” Seattle P-I, Dec. 8, 2004.

1999 “Lupus and Sexual Expression: A Research Report” (with Lynn Zahner. M.D.), published as the lead article in Lupus World, Fall, 1999. 1999 “Super Healthy Sex,” Let’s Live Magazine, February, pp. 34-39. 1999 “I Lust You,” Playboy Online, Sexcetera, February 14, 1999.

1997 “Sex, drugs, lox and rolls: Eating your way to a better love life,” Prime Health and Fitness, Fall, pp. 45-50. 1997 “Love Muscles,” Prime Health and Fitness, Summer, pp. 58-62.

1994 “The Importance of Sexual Humor,” Along the Way, Issue # 17. Chinese translation of Sexual Choices (co-authors, Gilbert Nass and Mary Pat Fisher), translated by Dr. Chin Chia-Hsiang, Guangzhow, China, Chinese Academy of Sexology.

1993 Sex from Aah to Zipper: A Delightful Glossary of Love, Lust and Laughter. Playful Pleasure Preses, 176 pp. (Illustrated). “School Board Out of Step with Reality on Sex Education Policy,” Atlanta Constitution, Feb. 28.

1991 [http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19911018&slug=1311696 “Flirtation or Harassment? New Fears at the Water Cooler.”] Seattle Times, Oct. 18. “Responsible Sex Activity is Caring, Honest and Open,” Seattle Times, Feb. 25.

1990 The first issue of an ongoing newsletter, The Sexual Enthusiast. Review Essay on Sex and AIDS, SIECUS REPORT, June/July. Script and manual for Better Sex Video Series, Fall.

1989 “We Need a National Sex Survey,” USA TODAY, Aug. 1. “Censorship on Upswing in New Hampshire,” Boston Globe.

1987 “We Need Medicine, Not Politics,” USA TODAY, June 3. “Teach About Sex in a Positive Way,” USA TODAY, March 16.

1985 “Sexual Friendships: An Advantage of Creative Singlehood,” Singles Journal, Oct, pp. 15-16. “Sex Education in the Future,” (co-author, Lester Kirkendall). Journal of Sex Education and Therapy (Spring/Summer), pp. 64-68.

1984 Foreword to the re-release of Open Marriage by Nena and George O’Neill, M. Evans and Co.

Second Edition of Sexual Choices (co-authors, Gilbert Nass and Mary Pat Fisher), Wadsworth Publishing Co., 454 pp.

“Mothers and Children Alone,” (co-author, Barbara Goldfarb), Alternative Lifestyles, Summer, pp. 243-259.

1983 “Sex, ‘the’ Family, and the Religious New Right,” Alternative Lifestyles, Summer, pp. 296-235.

1981 Sexual Choices (co-authors, Gilbert Nass and Mary Pat Fisher), Wadsworth Publishing Co., 600 pp. (Book of the Year, American Nurses Association, 1981).

1980 “Make Love, Not War? Sex, Sexual Meanings and Violence in a Sample of University Students,” (co-author, Murray Straus), Archives of Sexual Behavior, April, pp. 133-149.

1979 “Sexual Behavior as Symbolic Exchange: An Integration of Theory,” Monograph, Center for the Study of Human Sexuality, Austin, Texas, 79pp.

1978 “A Multivariate Test and Reformulation of Reference Group and Role Correlates of Ira Reiss’ Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Theory,” (co-	authors, Louis Gray and Mervin White), Journal of Marriage and the Family, Feb., pp. 79-92.

1977 Marriage and Alternatives: Exploring Intimate Relationships (co-	editor, Robert Whitehurst), Scott, Foresman and Co., 425 pp.

“Creative Singlehood as a Sexual Lifestyle,” in Marriage and Alternatives, and reprinted in Bernard Murstein, ed., Expoloring Intimate Lifestyles, Springer, 1978, and in J. Gipson Wells, ed., Current Issues in Marriage and the Family, Macmillan, 1979.

“Extramarital and Comarital Sex,” in Marriage and Alternatives.

“Changing Sexual Mores Today,” chapter in John Money and Herman Muspah, eds., Handbook of Sexology, Elseviery/North Holland Biomedical Press, pp. 563-574.

1976 Sexuality Today and Tomorrow (co-editor, Sol Gordon), Duxbury Press, 436 pp.

“In this Country Sex is Political,” (co-author, Sol Gordon), in Sexuality Today and Tomorrow.

“Sexual Behavior as Symbolic Interaction,” (co-author, Victor Gecas), Journal of Sex Research, Feb., pp. 33-49. Reprinted in Jacqueline Wiseman, ed., People as Partners, Harper and Row, 1977. “Semantics of Sex-Related Words,” (co-author, William Arnold), General Semantics Bulletin, Nos. 38-40, pp. 37-51.

1975 “Adolescent Sexual Attitudes and Behavior,” Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, Winter, pp. 36-42. Reprinted in Sexuality Today and Tomorrow, and in Phyllis Blumberg, Readings for Child Psychology, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1978.

“Sex and the Double Standard,” (co-author, Ronald Mazur), in Sol Gordon, ed., Let’s Make Sex a Household Word, Thomas Crowell Co., pp. 122-123.

1974 “Configurations of Parental Preferences Concerning Sources of Sex Education for Adolescents,” (co-authors, Alan Acock and David Payne), Adolescence, Spring, pp. 73-80.

1973 Renovating Marriage, (co-editor, Robert Whitehurst), Consensus Publishers, 366 pp.

“Exchange as Concept, Conceptual Framework or Theory: The Case of William Goode’s Application of Exchange Theory to the Family,” (co-author, John Carlson), Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Autumn, pp. 159-176.

“Premarital Sexual Decision-Making in the Dyad: A Theory,” (co-	author, John Carlson), Archives of Sexual Behavior, Dec., pp. 365-	378. Reprinted in Ross Eshleman and Juanna Clarke, eds., Intimacy, Commitment and Marriage, Allyn and Bacon, 1978.

“Clayton’s Premarital Sexual Intercourse: A Substantive Test of the Contingent Consistency Model Revisited,” (co-author, David Grimes), Journal of Marriage and the Family, Feb., pp. 8-12.

“Parental Views of Teenage Sexual Behavior,” (co-author, Gilbert Nass), Journal of Sex Research, August, pp. 226-236. Reprinted in Gladys Phelan, ed., Family Relationships, Burgess Publishing Co., 1971.

1971 “Statistical Inference: Comments on Labovitz’s Article,” (co-authors, Alan Acock and J. Sherwood Williams), Pacific Sociological Review, Spring, pp. 163-170.

“Parental Attitudes Toward Content in High School Sex Education Programs: Liberalism-Traditionalism and Demographic Correlates,” Family Coordinator, April, pp. 127-136.

1970 “Parental Attitudes Toward High School Sex Education Programs,” Family Coordinator, Oct., pp. 234-247.

1969 “Attitude Change Among Professionals Toward Sex Education for Adolescents ,” (co-authors Fred Humphrey and Gilbert Nass), Family Coordinator, Oct., pp. 27-45.

“Trends in Sex Education,” (co-author, Lester Kirkendall), in Carlfred Broderick and Jessie Bernard, eds., The Individual, Sex and Society, Johns Hopkins Press, pp. 5-23.

“Who Should Plan Your Sex Education Program? ” (co-author, Jessie Potter), American School Board Journal, Dec., pp. 19-23.

1966 “Interpersonal Relationships—Crux of the Sexual Renaissance,” (co-	author, Lester Kirkendall), Journal of Social Issues, April, pp. 45-59. Reprinted in thirteen books from 1971 to present.

Special Recognition/Awards/Memberships[edit]

Voted a Charter Member, International Academy of Sex Research, June 25, 1999.

Award of Clinical Fellow (Clinical Sexologist), The American Academy of Clinical Sexologists, 1992.

Award of Diplomat (Certified Sex Therapist, Sex Researcher and Sex Educator), The American Board of Sexology, 1990.

Award of Fellow, Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, 1982.

Invited to join American College of Sexology Board of Directors to certify sexologists, 1979.

Received Lifestyles Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Alternative Lifestyles, 1980.

Graduate Student of the Year, Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family, 1972.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

AASECT Certification, American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapist (board certified sex therapist)

American Academy of Clinical Sexologists (Clinical Fellow)

American Board of Sexology (Diplomat)

American College of Sexology (Diplomat)

International Academy of Sex Research (Charter Member)

Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (Fellow)

American Federation of T.V. and Radio Artists

Website[edit] Libby unveiled a new website in 2014 which contains information on a wide variety of sexual issues and infirmities, chapters of his two most recent books, a Video Gallery of Frequently Asked Questions about Sex Therapy, a Sex Therapy podcast, and a blog entitled Sound Sex Therapy among other features.

References[edit]

AASECT Certification, American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapist

The American College of Sexologists

External Links[edit]

Official Website

Official Blog