Researcher and author on the family, marriage, gender, sexuality, and health.
Dr. Pepper Schwartz
National Authority on Sexuality ( adult and youth) , Family, Marriage and Intimate Relationships of all kinds, and Mens and Women's communication
Dr. Pepper Schwartz is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington . She received her B.A. and M.A. from Washington University and her Ph.D. from Yale University.
Dr Schwartz is an expert on the romantic life cycle. She is Past President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and recieved a national award in 2005 from the American Sociological Associatioin for Public Understanding of Sociology. She is presently the relationship expert for Perfectmatch.com and designed their matching system, Duet. She has recently been appointed as the love, relationship and sexuality expert for AARP and gives advice on their national website. She is the immediate past President of the Centers for Sexuality at San Francisco State University.
A sought-after public speaker, she is the author of more than 40 scholarly articles and has served as a consultant to many national organizations. She also blogs for Psych.Today.com, Bewell.com, SeattlePI.com and starting in 2010, Asha.com ( the American Social Health Association)
Dr. Schwartz has accomplished much in her tenure as a sociologist. In addition to extensive lecturing, she has authored numerous articles as well as several books. Her well-known books form the basis for many of her presentations: Prime: Adventures and Advice about sex, love and the sensual years, Everything You know about Love and Sex is Wrong, Ten Talks Parents Must Have with Children about Sex and Characterm Peer Marriage: How Love Between Equals Really Works, American Couples: Money, Work, and Sex, The Love Test, and Finding Your Perfect Match.
Many of Pepper's popular articles have appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, American Baby,Self. and Psychology Today. She has been profiled in the New York Times, (in the main section and the Science column), The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, Psychology Today, Glamour, , Self Magazine, , New Woman Magazine, People Magazine, Sexual Health and others
A very limited list of current and previous Clients include: Young Presidents Organization/World Presidents Organization ( nationally and internationally) National Planned Parenthood, Cambridge Beaches , Bermuda ( on going workshops) over 100 colleges and Universities, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Johnson and Johnson, KY, Boeringer Ingelhem Pharmaceuticals, Church and Dwight Pharmaceuticals ( Trojan) Multicare Hospital, Oregon Human Services Department, Washington State Public Relations Society, Western Medical Group Association, Overlake Hospital, Virginia Mason Hospital, Emergency Nurses Association, Northwest Utilities Commission, Hewlett Packard, American Cancer Association, National Basketball Association, Children's Hospital, Department of the Navy, City of Seattle - Personnel Managers, National Management Association, National Dentists' Convention and Nordstroms.