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Leonore Tiefer

Pioneering sexologist Leonore Tiefer, clinical psychologist and associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, has declared war on pharmasex. She thinks that pharmaceutical industry is reshaping the way we think about our bodies and how we practise sex. She believes that if men learned how to dance and diaper babies — not at the same time, of course — maybe we wouldn't need Viagra. Leonore Tiefer is smart, funny, controversial, a feminist who calls herself a revolutionary on behalf of sex. In her landmark book, Sex Is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays, she describes the consequences of living in a hypersexualized culture. Constant images of sex bombard and numb us. Plastic surgery creates the improved or 'perfect' body. Drugs can help us perform. And this is killing sexual creativity. Leonore Tiefer reminds us that we're diverse creatures, shaped by cultural, historical, social, and individual forces. She believes that, as a culture, we're losing sight of this richness and diversity, and an increasingly homogeneity is creating an epidemic of insecurity around sex and our bodies.