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Marty Klein : biography

1950 –

Marty Ralph Klein (born 1950) is an American sex therapist, author, educator and public policy analyst. Klein is critical of censorship, the concepts of "sex addiction"As examples, take some of his papers:

  • and "porn addiction," and the anti-pornography movement.

Life and career

He has written several books on sexuality, and his book 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. Marty Klein details in the book that there is a well-coordinated, deeply funded war on sexuality, and it’s being fought on many different fronts:

  • the laws that restrict access to information and products and services;
  • the mythologies that legislators are relying on to make terrible laws;
  • the guilt that people feel;
  • the anxiety people have about their kids’ safety when it comes to sexuality.

The book explores our country’s deep-seated anxiety about sexuality and the lengths to which our government is willing to go to keep its citizens sexually repressed. Klein’s work 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.http://www.ejhs.org/volume9/book38klein.html // Lippincott Massie McQuilkin Literary Agency More recently he has spoken out against the criminalization and cruel punishment of teen “sexting.”

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 federal and state cases.US v. Fletcher (2008)US v. Marcus (2004)Williams v. Pryor, D. C. Docket No. 98-01938-CV-5 (2007)

Publications

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.

  • (Praeger Publishers, 2006). ISBN 978-0-275-98785-5
  • Beyond Orgasm: Dare to be Honest About the Sex You Really Want. (Ten Speed Press, 2002). ISBN 1-58761-168-6
  • Sexual Intelligence: Politics, Culture, the Media, and Sex (2002)
  • Let Me Count the Ways: Discovering Great Sex Without Intercourse. (Tarcher, 1999). ISBN 978-0-87477-956-1
  • 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

Klein writes a blog, Sexual Intelligence,http://sexualintelligence.wordpress.com/ and also a monthly on-line newsletter with the same title.