Gloria Glickstein Brame, Ph.D. and M.P.H. in Human Sexuality, is a clinical sexologist, author and journalist. Dr. Brame is a member of the American College of Sexologists and holds a dual appointment at her alma mater, the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (San Francisco), as Associate Professor of Sexuality and Clinical Sexology.Dr. Brame was the lead author of Different Loving: The World of Sexual Dominance & Submission (with co-authors William Brame and Jon Jacobs), hailed as a landmark work on sadomasochistic and fetish subcultures. Her most recent book is Come Hither: A Commonsense Guide to Kinky Sex, selected as the "official guide to kinky sex" by the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. A former English professor (M.A. in English, Columbia University, NYC), Dr. Brame switched career tracks from literature to sexology in the 1990s. Now, as an internationally acclaimed expert on paraphilia (bondage, sadomasochism, fetishes, cross-dressing, etc.), her work in the field has been cited in scores of scholarly and mainstream publications in the U.S. and abroad, she has appeared on hundreds of TV, radio and web-radio talk-shows and she has contributed articles on sex to a wide range of popular magazines (including Cosmo, Maxim, Redbook, and others).
A long-time on-line explorer, Dr. Brame founded the first on-line BDSM support group on Compuserve in 1987. From 1998 to 2001, she was a resident sexpert for Thrive On-Line, hosting conferences both on BDSM and also on Sex and Spirituality. Dr. Brame's private practice offers counseling to kinky adults and couples, with an emphasis on sexual self-esteem and self-empowerment. Her personal mission has been to give so-called unusual sex practices a human face by promoting education and candid dialogue on these widely misunderstood and formerly taboo topics.