Dr. Carol Queen, Ph.D. is a writer, speaker, educator and activist with a doctorate in sexology from San Francisco's graduate school of sexology, the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. First as an organizer in the lesbian/gay community, where she helped found one of the initial gay youth groups in the United States, and later in the emerging international bisexual community, as a sex worker and a practitioner of alternative sexualities, Carol works from her own experience and that of her communities even as she references academic thought on the subjects. Honored for her body of work, and her immeasurable contributions to sexual wellness and awareness, she received the AVN “O” Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2009.

Carol’s work has been published in many periodicals and has been widely anthologized, and she has several books in print. She publishes a sex and relationship advice column on her website and on Good Vibrations Magazine. She also publishes a monthly opinion column, The Royal Treatment, in Spectator Magazine, which is reprinted on Libido Magazine’s website.

Carol’s erotic writing has been performed in many venues, from San Francisco spoken word events like Wordfuck, Perverts Put Out, and Sister Spit group readings to solo shows in alternative theatrical venues.

She also does a workshop performance of her solo spoken word piece, Peep Show -- a visit behind the scenes at San Francisco's Lusty Lady Theatre, where she worked the peep booths in 1990. She has done this performance at Beyond the Edge Cafe in Seattle, Playwright's Theatre in Minneapolis, at the Coolidge Theatre in Boston, and at Buddies in Toronto; excerpts from it have been featured at the International Pornography Conference, the International Conference on Prostitution, Whore Church, Kat Sunlove's Fabulous at Fifty, and many other venues.

Carol is a worker/owner at Good Vibrations, where she directs Continuing Education for the staff and serves as both Staff Sexologist and Chief Cultural Officer. She also hosts “Women Like Me,” the company’s women’s health and wellness program that focuses on sexuality through the lifecycle. Her own educational events are organized through Carol Queen Workshops and The Center for Sex and Culture, a non-profit sexuality education center which Carol and her partner Dr. Robert Lawrence have spent the last several years organizing. Carol has addressed topics as diverse as lesbian and gay identity, gay rights, sadomasochism, group sex, bisexuality, prostitution, pornography, sex work, sex toys, alternative relationship structures, erotic writing, and safe sex. She is always willing to develop new workshops or speaking topics.

Carol’s focus, whether writing, speaking, consulting, or providing erotic entertainment, is to empower and inspire others to discover their own unique sexual profile. As Carol says, “we have to remove the stigma from sex before we can make it fabulous… Until we honor the full spectrum of consensual erotic desire, none of us will be truly free to pursue our own.”