Pepper Schwartz

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Pepper Schwartz
Pepper Schwartz at TEDx Rainier.jpg
Schwartz speaks at TEDx Rainier on "The Next Sexual Revolution" in 2011.
Born (1945-05-11) May 11, 1945 (age 80)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Education Washington University in St. Louis
Yale University
OccupationSociologist
Known forPublications and television appearances

Pepper Schwartz (born May 11, 1945) [1] is an American sexologist and sociologist teaching at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States. She is the author or co-author of numerous books, magazines, and website columns, and is a television personality on the subject of sexuality.

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Schwartz is notable for her work in the 1970s and early 1980s that culminated in the book American Couples: Money-Work-Sex, which was co-written with Philip Blumstein and surveyed lesbian couples, gay male couples and heterosexual couples.

Schwartz also serves as the Love & Relationship Expert & Ambassador [2] for AARP and writes the column The Naked Truth. [3]

Biography

Schwartz was born in Chicago, Illinois, into a Jewish home, the daughter of Julius J., an attorney and his wife Gertrude Schwartz. [1] [4] She earned a BA and an MA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MA and PhD in sociology from Yale University in 1974.[ citation needed ] While a graduate student there, she co-authored with Janet Lever the 1971 book Women at Yale, documenting the first year of co-education at that university.

Schwartz wrote the column "Sex and Health" for Glamour magazine for seven years. She has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline, and Dr. Phil, as well as on programs for the cable television network Lifetime; she currently airs as one of the relationship “experts” on the reality television show Married at First Sight . She was the 2005 president of the Pacific Sociological Association, helped create the dating website Perfectmatch.com, and is a sexuality adviser for WebMD.

Schwartz is a past president and fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and a charter member of the International Academy of Sex Research. The book jacket for her 2007 publication Prime: Adventures and Advice on Sex, Love, and the Sensual Years described her living "in Washington State, being single after a 23 year marriage, and having two children in college".

Research by Schwartz and others surveying lesbian sexuality has generated debates because the surveys stated that lesbian couples in long-term relationships have less sex than their heterosexual or gay male counterparts. The phenomenon was labeled "lesbian bed death". One factor in this debate concerns how "sex" acts were defined in surveys. [5]

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  1. 1 2 "Schwartz, Pepper 1945–". HighBeam Research. May 11, 1945. Archived from the original on September 21, 2014. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  2. ↑ null (October 28, 2016). "Dr. Pepper Schwartz – Sex and Relationships Expert". AARP. Archived from the original on December 30, 2017. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  3. ↑ "'Ask Pepper Schwartz'". Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
  4. ↑ Dreyfus, Hannah; Goldblum, Robert; Weitz, Ari Shane; Ain, Stewart; Rosenblatt, Gary; Ain, Stewart (December 30, 2017). "Reality TV Takes Cue From Shidduch Scene". Jewish Week. Archived from the original on December 30, 2017. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  5. ↑ Iasenza, Suzanne (November 9, 2001). "the big lie: lesbian bed death". fridae.com. Archived from the original on February 18, 2011. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
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